Enterprise Architect - India
On-siteChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Job Summary
Co-lead the Architecture Review Board by triaging change requests, assessing proposals against enterprise principles, and facilitating sessions to drive clear outcomes. Develop and maintain business capability models, data architecture standards, and application reference patterns while rationalizing the portfolio to reduce redundancy. Govern technology landscapes across hybrid on-premises, mainframe, and Azure environments by defining security, identity, and resilience requirements. Coach solution teams to ensure designs meet non-functional needs and communicate trade-offs to executive leadership. This breadth-first role requires deep expertise in at least one BDAT domain and practical experience with regulated lending environments.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Significant experience in enterprise, domain, or solution architecture, including demonstrable work across at least three of the four BDAT domains and deep expertise in at least one
- Direct experience participating in or supporting an Architecture Review Board, design authority, or comparable governance body — including making a recommendation that was unpopular and defending it well
- Experience developing architecture artifacts that were actually used: capability models, current- and target-state views, roadmaps, reference architectures, and decision records
- Hands-on background in a hybrid enterprise environment spanning on-premises infrastructure and a major public cloud, with practical Azure experience strongly preferred
- Experience with application portfolio rationalization, integration architecture, or large-scale modernization of legacy or mainframe-hosted workloads
- Exposure to regulated or audited environments and the compliance obligations that shape architecture decisions
- Strong grasp of enterprise integration patterns, API and event-driven architecture, and the trade-offs between them
- Solid data architecture fundamentals: modeling, master and reference data, data governance, and analytics platform patterns
- Working knowledge of Azure PaaS and SaaS services, networking, identity, and security controls, plus core networking concepts including routing, VPNs, firewalls, and load balancing
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation tooling (Terraform, PowerShell, Python) sufficient to review designs credibly and collaborate with platform teams
- Ability to evaluate and articulate cost, risk, and TCO implications of architecture options in terms a business sponsor can act on
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to make a complex trade-off legible on a single page
- Strong facilitation skills and the composure to run a room where stakeholders disagree
- Analytical rigor balanced with pragmatism — able to say 'good enough for now, and here's what we'll revisit' and mean it
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity, incomplete information, and competing priorities
- Collaborative and credible with both technical practitioners and business leaders; able to work independently and as part of a team
Desired Qualifications
- TOGAF certification (Foundation or Practitioner) strongly preferred; equivalent frameworks such as Zachman, ArchiMate certification, or SAFe Architect are also valued
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert or comparable cloud architecture certification
- Certifications in security, data, or integration domains are a plus (for example, CISSP, CCSP, CDMP)
- Hands-on background in a hybrid enterprise environment spanning on-premises infrastructure and a major public cloud, with practical Azure experience strongly preferred
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