Role: Telecom Architect (BSS)

Experience: 10–15 years

Location: Gurgaon & Work From Office

Role Overview

As a Architect for one of our enterprise-scale platforms, you will play a pivotal role in defining, evolving, and governing platform capabilities that support complex customer journeys and high-volume, mission-critical operations. This role requires a senior technologist with 8–15 years of experience, capable of working across platform, solution, and enterprise architecture layers, while partnering closely with engineering and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture

- Understand existing platform capabilities and evolve them in alignment with business and technology roadmap. - Architect and design new platform capabilities with a strong focus on scalability, extensibility, performance, and reliability. - Identify and recommend appropriate architectural patterns and frameworks to enable modularity, reusability, and performance optimization. - Review detailed designs and ensure compliance with TM Forum Open APIs and internal architectural standards. - Collaborate closely with engineering teams to ensure high-quality, resilient implementation of platform features.

Solution Architecture

- Analyze the existing application and integration landscape to understand how new customer journeys onboard onto the platform. - Design high-level solution architectures for new journeys, ensuring optimal reuse of platform services. - Partner with Engineering Managers and Tech Leads to understand technical constraints, dependencies, and available capabilities. - Perform impact analysis on existing functionality, data flows, performance, and SLA commitments for new initiatives. - Guide development teams and review Low-Level Designs (LLDs)



to ensure architectural consistency and adherence to best practices. - Design solutions for business KPIs, dashboards, reporting, and analytics leveraging enterprise reporting platforms. - Provide architectural oversight and support during SIT, UAT, and Production phases.

Enterprise Architecture

- Define and drive the target-state and end-state architecture for the platform and aligned enterprise initiatives. - Contribute to architecture governance forums, ensuring enterprise-wide consistency and alignment. - Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices to support platform modernization and evolution. - Ensure architectural alignment with enterprise standards, security guidelines, and compliance frameworks.

Required Qualifications

- 10–15 years of overall experience in software engineering, platform architecture, or solution architecture roles. - Demonstrated experience architecting large-scale, distributed, and high-availability platforms. - Robust expertise in API-first and integration-driven architectures; experience with TM Forum Open APIs is highly desirable. - Proven ability to balance hands-on technical depth with strategic architectural thinking. - Strong stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in Telecom, BSS/OSS, or large enterprise digital platforms. - Exposure to cloud-native architectures, microservices, event-driven systems, and container platforms. - Experience working in regulated environments with strict security and compliance needs.

Why Join Us

- Architect and influence enterprise-scale platforms with long-term strategic impact. - Work closely with senior engineering leaders and business stakeholders. - Drive modernization initiatives and shape the platform's future-state architecture.

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