Ciklum is looking for a Senior Solution Architect to join our team full time in India.
We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.
About the role:
As a Senior Solution Architect, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.
Responsibilities:
• Define the target architecture, integration patterns and reusable components across the conversational AI, API and data layers
• Design API contracts and middleware that decouple the virtual assistant from backend systems
• Produce solution designs, architecture diagrams and technical decision records for client review and sign-off
• Agree access, integration approach and non-functional requirements with client architects and system owners
• Run technical feasibility spikes and assess API readiness,



dependencies and delivery risks
• Set the security and authentication approach, including identity, access control, audit logging and PII handling
• Keep track of the client's wider programme landscape to avoid duplication and design conflicts

Requirements:
• API and middleware design: REST, canonical JSON contracts, payload transformation (JSON, XML, SQL), versioning, retries, rate limiting and standardised error handling
• Cloud architecture, ideally AWS serverless (API Gateway, Lambda, Secrets Manager, DynamoDB), with CI/CD awareness. Equivalent GCP or Azure depth is acceptable
• Security and identity: OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, service accounts, role-based access control and GDPR-aware data handling
• Data integration: warehouse and analytics platforms such as Snowflake or Databricks, including secure API access
• Applied LLM experience: prompt design, extraction of structured data from free text

📌 Senior Solution Architect (India)
🏢 Ciklum
📍 India