Solution Architect, AVP

Solution Architect, AVP

Position Overview

Job Title: Solution Architect

Location: Pune, India

Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President

Role Description

Solution Architect with expertise in solution design to join our enterprise architecture team. This role will focus on:

• Designing secure, scalable, and cost-effective solution.
• Reviewing and improving existing architecture to ensure performance compliance and resilience.
• Leading and defining cloud migration strategies, including hybrid and multi-cloud adoption
• Bridging business needs with secure, data driven architecture that align with enterprise standards
• Enabling strong data design principles across enterprise platform and systems.
• Creating and reviewing vendor application architecture, presenting them to architecture forums and obtaining approvals.
• Work on POC and MVPs to evaluate new technologies and solution approaches.

What we'll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Review, assess, and enhance existing architectures to identify security and performance gaps.
• Design and document new solution architectures, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and cost-effective.
• Provide end-to-end solution options with clear trade-off analysis for business and IT stakeholders.
• Lead cloud migration assessments, define migration roadmaps, and design hybrid/multi-cloud solutions.

Security Integration

• Embed security-by-design principles into all solution and data architectures.
• Conduct threat modeling and define countermeasures for identified risks.
• Define secure patterns for API, data exchange, and application integration.
• Work with DevSecOps teams to ensure continuous compliance in CI/CD pipelines.

Data Architecture Responsibilities

• Define data models, data flows, and integration strategies for enterprise systems.
• Ensure data security, governance, lineage, and quality are built into architectures.
• Design solutions to handle structured and unstructured data across platforms.
• Work with analytics teams to enable secure and scalable data platforms (DWH, Data Lakes, BI tools).
• Support implementation of data privacy regulations (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.) in solution designs.

Migration & Modernization

• Design cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS, Azure, or GCP services.
• Define migration patterns (rehost, refactor, replatform, etc.) for legacy applications and databases.
• Ensure secure data migration strategies, including encryption, backup, and failover planning.

Collaboration & Governance

• Act as a trusted advisor to business and IT leaders on secure and data-driven design choices.
• Participate in architecture review boards to approve designs and ensure compliance with enterprise standards.
• Provide solution recommendations and alternatives to align IT capabilities with business goals.
• Mentor junior architects and technical teams on secure solution and data design practices.
• Create and streamline the process of application onboarding, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.

Your skills and experience

Education: Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Information Security, Data Engineering, or related field.

Experience: 10+ years in IT with at least 5 years in solution architecture, including significant security and data architecture responsibilities.

Technical Skills:

• Deep knowledge of the Architecture and Design Principles, Algorithms and Data Structures for both on-prem and cloud native solutions (GCP Architecture Certification preferred)
• Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud migration strategies.
• Expertise in IAM, PKI, encryption, network security, API security, and DevSecOps.
• Hands-on experience in data modeling, ETL, data lakes/warehouses, and BI platforms.
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks, metadata management, and master data management (MDM).
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001).

The following criteria would be beneficial, but are good to have:

• Knowledge in AI/ML to boost the business objectives
• Knowledge of data regulations, sustainable technology and ESG products.
• Knowledge of data services regulatory/jurisdictional data concerns and experience in providing solutions

Certifications (preferred): TOGAF, AWS/GCP/AZURE Solution Architect

Soft Skills: Strong communication, ability to influence stakeholders, and proven track record of simplifying complex designs.

How we'll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

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We strive for a in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.
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