Solution Architect Software, Hardware, Cloud & Integration

Navi Mumbai | Full time | 10+ years | Software, Hardware, Cloud & Systems Integration

ROLE SUMMARY

Design end-to-end solution architectures spanning software applications, hardware components, networking infrastructure, and cloud services — translating business and customer requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions across on-premises, edge, hybrid, and cloud environments.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Design comprehensive solution architectures incorporating software applications, hardware components, networking infrastructure, and cloud services.
- Translate business and customer requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.
- Evaluate trade-offs among on-premises, edge, hybrid, and cloud deployment models.
- Define system architecture, component interactions, APIs, data flows, and integration strategies.
- Work with software engineering teams to establish architecture patterns, development standards, and technology roadmaps.
- Collaborate with hardware teams to ensure compatibility between embedded systems, IoT devices, sensors, gateways, and enterprise applications.
- Design cloud-native and hybrid-cloud architectures using modern cloud services.
- Develop architecture documentation including solution diagrams, interface specifications, deployment architectures, and technical design documents.
- Ensure solutions meet security, scalability, performance, availability, and compliance requirements.
- Guide infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
- Review technical designs and provide architectural governance throughout the project lifecycle.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend innovations that improve business outcomes.

SCALE & PLATFORM CONTEXT

- 500K+ active learners and 100K+ daily active users.
- Large assessments,



high concurrency, real-time learning, and AI-powered interactions.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

- 10+ years overall in software / systems engineering.
- 5+ years in solution or systems architecture.
- 4+ years designing on cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP).
- Hands-on across on-premises, hybrid, and edge deployments.
- Exposure to hardware / embedded, IoT, sensors, and gateway integration.
- Proven experience defining APIs, data flows, and enterprise integration.

MUST-HAVE SKILLS

- Architecture: Solution/systems architecture, microservices, API-first, distributed and high-availability systems, integration patterns.
- Cloud/Deployment: AWS (or Azure/GCP), cloud-native and hybrid-cloud design, containers/Kubernetes, IaC, on-prem/edge trade-offs.
- Hardware/IoT: Embedded systems, IoT devices, sensors, gateways, and their integration with enterprise applications.
- Networking/Infra: Networking infrastructure, infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, disaster recovery, business continuity.
- Security/Quality: Security, scalability, performance, availability, and compliance by design.
- Documentation: Solution diagrams, interface specifications, deployment architectures, technical design documents.
- Governance: Architecture reviews, design governance, development standards, technology roadmaps.

PREFERRED

- EdTech, LMS, ERP, assessments, or large-scale SaaS platforms.
- IoT / edge platforms, hybrid deployments, and AI/LLM-enabled solutions.
- AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, TOGAF, or equivalent architecture certifications.
- Bachelor's required; Master's preferred.

FIRST 12 MONTHS

- Establish solution architecture standards, patterns, and documentation practices.
- Deliver reference architectures spanning software, hardware, and cloud.
- Strengthen integration between enterprise applications and IoT / edge / hardware components.
- Improve scalability, reliability, security, and deployment quality across solutions.

📌 Solution Architect Software, Hardware, Cloud & Integration (Navi Mumbai)
🏢 Aarvi Encon
📍 Navi Mumbai