Solution Architect

About the job :

Role : Solution Architect - Digital Services

Level : L3/L4

Experience : 8+ yrs

Location : Chennai | Coimbatore | Madurai

Key Responsibilities :

- Oversee the solution architecture and design for key projects, delivering accurate estimates and coordinating with architects and designers across solution, infrastructure, and data disciplines to effectively address business challenges.

- Collaborate with delivery teams, production support, and shared services partners (Quality Assurance, Infrastructure Engineering, Reference Architecture) to ensure alignment of solution strategies and estimates.

- Lead the establishment of technical best practices, standards, and guidelines, ensuring alignment with overarching business objectives.

- Mentor and guide a team of engineers, fostering their professional growth and providing support in navigating technical challenges.

- Partner closely with product managers, business analysts, and stakeholders to understand project requirements and transform them into viable technical solutions.

- Actively engage in Scrum team activities, providing architectural direction, and guiding technical teams through complex challenges while ensuring best practice adherence.

- Continuously assess and recommend tools, platforms, and frameworks to meet evolving project needs with high compatibility and efficiency.

- Promote modular design principles for independent component development and testing, while applying best security practices such as least privilege and data protection.

- Conduct quality and security assurance, develop metrics for code quality, and ensure adherence to automated code review processes.

- Conduct code and design reviews to ensure compliance with architecture standards.

- Mentor engineering teams on design, architecture, and emerging technologies.

- Collaborate with AI/ML teams to integrate AI components into enterprise solutions.

- Design and recommend GenAI-enabled applications using LLMs, vector databases, and prompt engineering.

- Provide leadership in database modernization assisting in the migration from legacy RDBMS platforms to cloud-native databases or NoSQL solutions, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.

- Lead incremental modernization strategies for legacy applications, including refactoring, containerization, and microservices adoption.

Required Skills & Experience :

- Bachelors/masters in computer science, Engineering, or related field.

- Strong programming experience in .NET / Python / Java / Node.js.

- In-depth experience designing and implementing software solutions using cloud-native technologies.

- Hands-on experience in at least one major cloud platform (AWS or Azure).

- Experience in Microservices, Micro Frontend, API Gateway, and Messaging Implementation.

- Understanding of GenAI apps (LLMs, embeddings, prompt chaining), ML workflows, or vector databases.

- Good understanding of REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and integration patterns.

- AWS/Azure Solution Architect Certification, TOGAF, or similar framework certifications.

- Experience with database modernization migrating from legacy relational systems to managed cloud databases or alternative modern platforms.

- Familiarity with schema optimization, database versioning, and migration tools (e.g., Flyway, Liquibase).

- Awareness of cloud security, compliance, and cost optimization.

- Experience with application modernization strategies, including containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and incremental refactoring approaches.

- Ability to integrate security considerations throughout the SDLC, including threat modeling and secure coding practices.

- Experience conducting security assessments (SAST, DAST, vulnerability scanning).

Nice to Have :

- Experience in brownfield modernization upgrading legacy platforms without major business disruption.

- Exposure to high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) architecture for business-critical systems.

- Understanding of event sourcing and CQRS patterns in distributed systems.

- Prior experience in large-scale modernization projects within the environmental services, logistics, or utilities sector