Job Description: 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.
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: Bachelors or Masters 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.
