Roles & Responsibilities
The Solution Architect will lead the end-to-end architecture design and technology strategy for the Legacy system modernization program. This role is responsible for defining a scalable, secure, and AI-enabled enterprise architecture, ensuring seamless integration with peripheral systems and alignment with the enterprise data foundation.
Key Responsibilities
- Architectural Design & Governance
- Define end-to-end architecture across frontend, backend, data, and integration layers
- Design microservices-based architecture with clear domain boundaries
- Establish integration architecture patterns (API, Streaming, File-based, CDC)
- Define data architecture strategy aligned with enterprise data foundation
- Ensure high availability, scalability, and performance benchmarks are met
- Establish architecture governance frameworks, design standards, and review processes
- Enterprise Data & Analytics Architecture
- Design data flow between transactional systems and enterprise data platforms
- Define data ingestion, transformation, and canonical data models
- Ensure data consistency, lineage, and governance
- Align application architecture with analytics, reporting, and AI/ML needs
- Integration & Ecosystem Design
- Architect integration with enterprise systems (e.g. SAP/HANA, Siebel, EDW, other peripheral systems)
- Define multi-pattern integration strategy: Real-time APIs, Event streaming, Batch/file-based ingestion
- Ensure fault-tolerant, scalable, and secure integrations
- Design decoupled integration layer for long-term flexibility
- Understanding of enterprise integration patterns
- Technology Selection & Standardization
- Evaluate and recommend technology stack (backend, frontend, integration, AI/ML)
- Define standards for API design (REST, event-driven), Database usage (HANA/Postgres where applicable), Observability (logging, monitoring, tracing)
- Ensure future-ready and cloud-native architecture
- Security, Compliance & Risk Management
- Define security architecture SSO, OAuth2, RBAC, API security, Data protection (PII masking, encryption)
- Ensure compliance with OWASP Top 10, Enterprise security policies, Identify and mitigate architectural risks and performance bottlenecks
- DevOps & Delivery Enablement
- Guide teams on CI/CD, DevSecOps, and release management
- Define environment strategy (Dev, Test, UAT, Prod)
- Ensure automation-first approach (deployment, testing, monitoring)
- Support performance engineering and non-functional validation
- Stakeholder Collaboration & Leadership
- Work closely with Business stakeholders, Product owners, Engineering teams, Data & AI teams
- Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and design reviews
- Documentation & Compliance
- Maintain architecture artifacts HLD, Solution Architecture, Integration Design
Technical Skills, Design & Leadership Competencies
- Strong expertise in Microservices architecture, Distributed systems design, API-first design, Event-driven architecture
- Experience in designing High-performance, High-availability, Scalable enterprise systems
- Strong experience with Java 17+, Spring Boot ecosystem
- Experience in API design, orchestration, and workflow engines
- Knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with PostgreSQL 15+
- Exposure to SAP HANA / Enterprise DWH concepts (preferred)
- Strong understanding of Data modeling, Data migration strategies, Data governance
- Exposure with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Compute, Storage, Networking, Messaging (SQS/Kafka), Monitoring (CloudWatch, Prometheus)
- Experience in CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices
- Exposure with API gateways, Message brokers (Kafka/SQS), File-based and batch integration
- Ability to design Future-ready, extensible systems, Secure and compliant architectures, Performance-optimized solutions
General
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills for both technical and business audiences
- Experience in large-scale transformation programs
Experience & Qualification
- Experience: 15+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in architecture roles
- Education: B.Tech / BE in Computer Science or equivalent
Good-to-Have
- Experience with SAP HANA / BW concepts
- Experience in automotive or manufacturing domain
- Experience in data-intensive enterprise systems
- Experience in AI/ML & RAG based Intelligent Systems design
Experience
Skills
- Primary Skill: Application Architecture
- Sub Skill(s): Application Architecture
- Additional Skill(s): Java Architecture, Core Java, Scrum Master (SA), Agile Framework (SCRUM & KANBAN)
