Job Description:

Hiring Chief Architect for Pune, Bangalore, and Gurgaon locations.

Experience: 18-25 Years.

Title: Chief Architect - Advisory Digital.

Key Responsibilities:

Architecture strategy and roadmap:

- Own target-state enterprise architecture for distributed, cloud-native platforms and products across multiple business units.

- Define and govern reference architectures, blueprints, and standards for multi-tenant SaaS, microservices, and event-driven systems.

- Establish architecture metrics and outcomes tied to business objectives.

Platform engineering and IDP:

- Lead design and rollout of Internal Developer Platforms to standardize golden paths, improve developer experience, and accelerate delivery.

- Define platform SLAs/SLOs, golden templates, and paved roads for services, data, observability, and security.

Cloud architecture and vendor neutrality:

- Architect solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP with a vendor-neutral mindset.

- Define multi-cloud landing zones, tenancy models, and portability patterns.

Multi-tenant SaaS at scale:

- Design and operate secure, scalable, cost-efficient multi-tenant architectures.

- Establish patterns for regionalization, data residency, and compliance controls.

Security, identity, and compliance by design:

- Embed security and privacy controls into architecture (Zero Trust, IAM, secrets management).

- Partner with security and risk teams to implement governance and continuous compliance automation.

DevSecOps and engineering excellence:

- Drive CI/CD, GitOps, policy-as-code, and SRE practices.

- Introduce AI-driven SDLC accelerators and guardrails.

Integration, APIs, and service connectivity:

- Define API strategy and service connectivity patterns.

- Establish event streaming and data-in-motion patterns.

Data and AI platform architecture:

- Guide modern data architectures and AI/ML platforms for model training, deployment, and monitoring.

- Partner with data and product teams to operationalize ML/GenAI responsibly at scale.

Governance and operating model:

- Lead architecture governance across a matrixed enterprise.

- Build and mentor a high-performing architecture community of practice.

Stakeholder leadership and communication:

- Translate complex technical concepts into clear business narratives for executives.

Minimum Qualifications:

- 15+ years in software engineering and architecture with significant time in senior/principal/chief architect roles.

- Deep expertise in cloud-native and distributed systems.

- Proven experience designing and operating multi-tenant SaaS platforms at enterprise scale.

- Strong hands-on experience on Azure.

- Security and identity expertise (OAuth2/OIDC, SSO, SAML, RBAC/ABAC).

- Container orchestration and connectivity (Kubernetes, Helm, Istio).

- DevSecOps and automation (CI/CD, GitOps, IaC).

- Data and AI familiarity (Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake, Kafka, SageMaker).

- Experience leading architecture governance in large, complex enterprises.

- Background in regulated industries or large enterprise SaaS products.

- Demonstrated ability to communicate crisply with executives.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Prior responsibility for technology strategy across multiple products or business units.

- Track record building platform engineering functions/CoEs.

- Experience modernizing legacy systems at scale.

- Experience creating IP/accelerators.

- Certifications such as TOGAF, cloud provider certifications, and advanced DevSecOps/AI credentials.

Key Competencies:

- Enterprise technology leadership and strategic thinking.

- Platform engineering and developer experience.

- Architecture governance and operating model design.

- Vendor-neutral multi-cloud design and FinOps awareness.

- Executive communication and stakeholder management.

- Innovation mindset with bias for measurable outcomes.

- Team leadership, coaching, and global delivery governance.

What Success Looks Like (12-18 Months):

- Target-state platform and SaaS architecture defined and adopted.

- IDP and golden paths established, improving developer productivity by 20-30%.

- Secure, compliant multi-tenant capabilities implemented.

- AI-driven SDLC accelerators embedded.

- Architecture governance operationalized with consistent standards.