Solution Architect, AVP

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
• Enabling strong 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 well offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that youll 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 application 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.

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 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 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, or related field.
• Experience: 10+ years in IT with at least 5 years in solution architecture, including significant security and Application architecture responsibilities.

Technical Skills:

• Deep knowledge of the Architecture and Design Principles and Algorithms 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.
• 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 regulations, sustainable technology and ESG products.

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

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