Solutions Architect

Job description

About the Company We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to lead the design of scalable, secure, and enterprise-grade cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure. This role is primarily focused on architecture design, technical solutioning, and stakeholder advisory, with a strong emphasis on data and AI platforms. The ideal candidate will translate business requirements into robust architecture blueprints, define high-level and low-level designs, and guide delivery teams in implementing solutions aligned to Azure best practices, security standards, and operational resilience requirements. About the Role This role is primarily focused on architecture design, technical solutioning, and stakeholder advisory, with a strong emphasis on data and AI platforms. Responsibilities • Lead end-to-end architecture design for AWS-based enterprise solutions, with a focus on data, analytics, and GenAI platforms. • Create high-level designs (HLDs) and low-level designs (LLDs) covering application, data, integration, security, network, and platform architecture. • Define target-state architectures, architecture roadmaps, and transition plans for cloud adoption, modernization, and migration initiatives. • Ensure solutions align with Well-Architected Framework, including reliability, security, performance efficiency, operational excellence, and cost optimization. • Design for scalability, availability, disaster recovery, backup, observability, and governance. • Provide architecture oversight across the solution lifecycle, including design reviews, risk assessments, and technical decision-making. • Partner with business stakeholders, delivery teams, and leadership to translate functional and non-functional requirements into practical architecture patterns. • Establish reusable reference architectures, design standards, and best practices for solution delivery. • Guide engineering teams during implementation to ensure adherence to approved architecture and enterprise standards. Qualifications • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Required Skills • 8–12 years of experience in cloud, platform, or solution architecture, with strong experience designing enterprise-grade solutions on Azure. • Knowledge of workings of AWS, Cloud, Solution architect, Database knowledge (Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Neo4j). • Proven expertise in architecture design and solution blueprinting for cloud-native and hybrid environments. • Strong understanding of AWS architecture across data, integration, identity, security, and platform services. • Experience architecting modern data and AI solutions using services such as data lakes, data integration, analytics platforms, governance services, and AI capabilities. • Strong grounding in security, access control, networking considerations, resilience, backup/DR, and operational design. • Ability to define architecture for both structured data platforms and emerging GenAI workloads. • Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Experience leading architecture workshops, reviewing designs, and mentoring delivery teams. Preferred Skills • Experience with AWS services • Data platform and analytics services • AI/ML and GenAI services • Identity and access management • Governance and data cataloging • Relational, NoSQL, and graph databases • Monitoring and operational tooling Good to Have • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation approaches such as Terraform, ARM/Bicep, or similar tools. • Exposure to DevOps and CI/CD practices in Azure environments. • Experience with enterprise integration patterns and API-based architectures.