Solution Architect

Role: Solution Architect - Digital Services

Level: L3/L4

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

• Bachelor's/master's in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• Strong programming experience in .NET / Python / Java /
• 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.