Highly preferred: Certification/Experience Preferred: AWS Solutions Architect Expert, TOGAF, ITIL

Key Responsibilities

1. Architecture Standards, Patterns Modernization Frameworks
- Develop, publish, and maintain application and integration architecture standards.
- Create reusable modernization patterns (microservices, APIs, event-driven, containerization).
- Contribute to reference architectures and ensure consistency across engineering teams.
- Support solution architects and delivery teams in applying approved standards.

2. Application Modernization Execution
- Design modernization paths for legacy applications: rehost, replatform, refactor, retire.
- Architect cloud native and hybrid solutions primarily on Azure (AKS, Functions, APIM, PaaS).
- Work hands on with engineering teams during design, PoCs, and early build phases.
- Guide workload decomposition, domain boundaries, service design, and modernization roadmaps.

3. Cloud Architecture Platform Enablement
- Build and evolve Azure landing zone components and cloud governance configurations.
- Define infrastructure,



integration, API, and data patterns for cloud adoption.
- Support hybrid cloud integrations with Azure, AWS, and GCP where applicable.
- Evaluate current cloud capabilities (AI, observability, DevSecOps, automation tools).

4. Application Portfolio Management Rationalization Perform architecture led assessments using frameworks such as TIME or 6R.
- Identify consolidation, migration, and retirement opportunities to reduce redundancy.
- Partner with ServiceNow APM/CMDB to ensure accurate application inventory and lifecycle data.
- Develop architecture metrics and dashboards supporting modernization progress.

5. Technical Debt Analysis Remediation Support
- Maintain application level technical debt insights across the portfolio.
- Partner with product teams to prioritize remediation aligned with risk, business value, and modernization sequencing.
- Provide guidance on remediation strategies, pattern

📌 Senior Cloud Architect (Chennai)
🏢 Dignify Solution
📍 Chennai