- Design and own the end-to-end architecture of a telecom lifecycle platform covering onboarding, orchestration, assurance, and decommissioning.

- Translate business and operational requirements into scalable, resilient platform solutions and roadmaps.

- Define platform integration patterns and APIs for OSS/BSS, RAN, Core, cloud, and third-party systems.

- Lead platform development decisions: microservices, containerization (Kubernetes), CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.

- Ensure platform security, compliance, data governance, and multi-tenant isolation across environments.

- Drive observability: logging, metrics, tracing, automated alerting, and SRE-led runbooks.

- Mentor engineering teams, set architecture standards, and enforce best practices (DevSecOps, testing, code reviews).

- Collaborate with product, operations, and customers to prioritize features, SLAs, and lifecycle automation.

- Optimize cost, performance, and scalability across cloud/on-prem deployments and hybrid topologies.

- Evaluate emerging telecom technologies (AI/ML, intent-based, TM Forum standards) and incorporate into platform roadmap.

- TN Forum alignment

Telecom Domain Skills

- Deep understanding of telecom architecture: RAN, PS Core, CS Core, IP, transport

- Familiarity with OSS/BSS, network orchestration, and lifecycle management

- Knowledge of TM Forum standards (e.g., Open APIs, eTOM, SID)

- Understanding of intent-based networks,



AI/ML in telecom, and automation

Architecture Design

- Enterprise architecture and solution design (microservices, event-driven, cloud-native)

- API design and integration patterns (REST, gRPC, Kafka, messaging queues)

- Multi-cloud and hybrid architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem)

- Scalability, resilience, high availability, and disaster recovery design

Development DevOps

- Solid programming: Python, Java, Go, or similar

- Containerization orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

- CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)

- Software testing, debugging, and automated deployment strategies

Security Compliance

- Network and application security, zero-trust architecture

- Data governance, encryption, identity access management

- Compliance with telecom regulations and security standards

Observability Operations

- Logging, monitoring, tracing: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry

- SRE practices, SLI/SLO definition, incident management

- Automated alerting, runbooks, and operational excellence

Leadership Soft Skills

- Technical leadership, mentoring, and architecture governance

- Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration

- Strategic thinking, roadmap planning, and prioritization

- Strong communication (written and verbal) to technical and non-technical audiences

📌 Deputy General Manager - Platform Architect , Software Development (Chennai)
🏢 Tata Communications
📍 Chennai