We are looking for a highly experienced Architect with strong expertise in architecting solutions in applications, infrastructure and cloud. The role involves working closely with clients, delivery teams, and business stakeholders to define solution architecture, work closely towards implementation, conduct architecture assessments, drive digital transformation initiatives and support pre-sales engagements.

Key Responsibilities

Lead solution architecture and system design for applications and infrastructure problems/improvements.

Understand customer environments and landscape quickly to propose/refine solutions to standard / new solutions as required

Engage directly with clients to understand business requirements, standard operating procedures, environment, user and technology challenges

Define technology solutions ensuring production grade performance, scalability, security and cost effective / performance effective solutions

Integrate various layers including ticketing tool, observability tools application and infrastructure components towards solutions

Define architecture standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices.

Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure successful implementation of architectural solutions.

Conduct architecture assessments and provide modernization recommendations.

Design cloud-native and distributed systems leveraging AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Adapt equally well to 3 tier architecture based solutions

Support pre-sales activities including solutioning, effort estimation, proposal reviews, and technical presentations.

Required Skills

12+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture.





Strong expertise in Application and Infrastructure Architecture

Strong skills in ITSM and deep knowledge on platform operations/production support

Hands on experience with architecting and solutioning for application and infrastructure use cases

Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Deep understanding of microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, integration patterns, and modern application platforms.

AI fluency with experience in implementing Agentic AI solutions, multi-agent architectures, MCP, tool orchestration, and AI-assisted engineering workflows

Have a keen eye on architecting solutions towards modernizing legacy systems / specific system requirements and use cases

Strong stakeholder management and client-facing communication skills.

Ability to lead technical discussions, workshops, and architecture reviews.

Experience in Healthcare, Retail, BFSI, or Enterprise Digital Transformation programs is a plus.

TOGAF or architecture certifications are a plus.

Travel to client locations as required

Work from respective office locations as per policies

Work in different shifts based on customer location and project requirements

Key Success Factors

Robust communication and presentation skills.

Ability to work well with teams in various geographies

Work closely with development, testing teams, delivery leads and customer stakeholders towards end to end solution implementations

Ability to influence client stakeholders and engineering teams.

Excellent problem-solving and consulting mindset.

Ability to balance technical depth with business outcomes.

Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and platform engineering concepts.

📌 Solution Architect (Chennai)
🏢 Ascendion Engineering
📍 Chennai