Role: Telecom Architect (BSS)

Experience: 10–15 years

Location: Gurgaon & Work From Office

Role Overview

As a Architect for one of our enterprise-scale platforms, you will play a pivotal role in defining, evolving, and governing platform capabilities that support complex customer journeys and high-volume, mission-critical operations. This role requires a senior technologist with 8–15 years of experience, capable of working across platform, solution, and enterprise architecture layers, while partnering closely with engineering and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture

Understand existing platform capabilities and evolve them in alignment with business and technology roadmap.
Architect and design new platform capabilities with a strong focus on scalability, extensibility, performance, and reliability.
Identify and recommend appropriate architectural patterns and frameworks to enable modularity, reusability, and performance optimization.
Review detailed designs and ensure compliance with TM Forum Open APIs and internal architectural standards.
Collaborate closely with engineering teams to ensure high-quality, resilient implementation of platform features.

Solution Architecture

Analyze the existing application and integration landscape to understand how new customer journeys onboard onto the platform.
Design high-level solution architectures for new journeys, ensuring optimal reuse of platform services.
Partner with Engineering Managers and Tech Leads to understand technical constraints, dependencies, and available capabilities.
Perform impact analysis on existing functionality, data flows, performance, and SLA commitments for new initiatives.
Guide development teams and review Low-Level Designs (LLDs) to ensure architectural consistency and adherence to best practices.
Design solutions for business KPIs, dashboards, reporting, and analytics leveraging enterprise reporting platforms.
Provide architectural oversight and support during SIT, UAT, and Production phases.

Enterprise Architecture

Define and drive the target-state and end-state architecture for the platform and aligned enterprise initiatives.
Contribute to architecture governance forums, ensuring enterprise-wide consistency and alignment.
Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices to support platform modernization and evolution.
Ensure architectural alignment with enterprise standards, security guidelines, and compliance frameworks.

Required Qualifications

10–15 years of overall experience in software engineering, platform architecture, or solution architecture roles.
Demonstrated experience architecting large-scale, distributed, and high-availability platforms.
Strong expertise in API-first and integration-driven architectures; experience with TM Forum Open APIs is highly desirable.
Proven ability to balance hands-on technical depth with strategic architectural thinking.
Strong stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in Telecom, BSS/OSS, or large enterprise digital platforms.
Exposure to cloud-native architectures, microservices, event-driven systems, and container platforms.
Experience working in regulated environments with strict security and compliance needs.

Why Join Us

Architect and influence enterprise-scale platforms with long-term strategic impact.
Work closely with senior engineering leaders and business stakeholders.
Drive modernization initiatives and shape the platform's future-state architecture.

Telecom BSS Architect