Title: Chief Architect – Advisory Digital

Key responsibilities

Architecture strategy and roadmap -
- Own target-state enterprise architecture for distributed, cloud-native platforms and products across multiple business units.
- Define and govern reference architectures, blueprints, and standards for multi-tenant SaaS, microservices, and event-driven systems.

Platform engineering and IDP -
- Lead design and rollout of Internal Developer Platforms to standardize golden paths, improve developer experience, and accelerate delivery.
- Define platform SLAs/SLOs, golden templates, and paved roads for services, data, observability, and security.

Cloud architecture and vendor neutrality -
- Architect solutions across Azure, AWS and GCP with a vendor-neutral mindset

Multi-tenant SaaS -
- Design and operate secure, scalable, cost-efficient multi-tenant architectures including tenant isolation, entitlements, billing/quotas, and data protection.

Security, identity, and compliance by design -
- Embed security and privacy controls into architecture (Zero Trust, IAM, secrets management,



KMS/HSM, network segmentation)

DevSecOps and engineering excellence -
- Drive CI/CD, GitOps, policy-as-code, and SRE practices; improve DORA metrics and engineering productivity.

Integration, APIs, and service connectivity -
- Define API strategy (gateway management, versioning, monetization) and service connectivity (service mesh, mTLS, traffic management).

Data and AI platform architecture -
- Guide up-to-date data architectures (lakehouse, streaming, governance) and AI/ML platforms for model training, deployment, and monitoring.

Governance and operating model -
- Lead architecture governance across a matrixed enterprise; run ARBs, standards councils, and technology guardrails.

Minimum qualifications
- Tech Graduate/ PG with 17+ years in software engineering and architecture with significant time in senior/principal/chief architect roles.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native and distributed sy

📌 Chief Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Big 4 Consultancy Firm
📍 Bengaluru