Role & responsibilities:

- Define and drive the enterprise technology architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and long-term organizational goals.
- Develop current-state and target-state architecture, technology roadmaps, reference architectures, and architecture standards.
- Lead the design of scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-effective enterprise solutions across applications, infrastructure, cloud, data, and integration.
- Evaluate and recommend technologies, platforms, products, and vendors based on business requirements, technical fit, scalability, security, and total cost of ownership.
- Define and govern cloud, application, integration, data, and security architecture standards.
- Drive adoption of cloud, microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, DevOps, automation, and modern digital technologies where appropriate.
- Work closely with CIO/CTO leadership, business stakeholders, product teams, engineering teams, security teams, and infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technology strategies.
- Identify opportunities for technology modernization, application rationalization, technical-debt reduction, and cost optimization.
- Establish architecture governance processes, review solution designs, and ensure compliance with enterprise technology standards.

Preferred candidate profile:

- 7 to 12 years of experience in IT, software engineering, solution architecture, technical architecture, or enterprise architecture.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.



Master's degree is an advantage but not mandatory.
- Strong experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Technology Architecture.
- Good understanding of TOGAF, ArchiMate, or other enterprise architecture frameworks.
- Strong hands-on understanding of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
- Experience designing large-scale distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and enterprise integrations.
- Working knowledge of data architecture, databases, data platforms, analytics, and data governance.
- Good understanding of cybersecurity, IAM, network architecture, application security, and regulatory/compliance considerations.
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and automation.
- Ability to create and communicate technology strategies, architecture roadmaps, standards, and reference architectures.
- Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate complex technical and business trade-offs.
- Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder-management, and leadership skills.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical teams and senior business/C-level stakeholders.
- Experience working in large enterprises, global organizations, GCCs, consulting firms, or complex transformation programs is preferred.
- TOGAF and cloud architecture certifications are highly desirable.
- Exposure to AI/GenAI architecture and modern cloud-native technologies will be an added advantage.

📌 Enterprise Architect (India)
🏢 IPI Technolab
📍 India