15 years in software engineering including 5 years in enterprise or solution architecture and proven hands-on technical leadership
What awaits you / Job Profile
- Own the enterprise technology direction across full-stack Java cloud-native engineering DevSecOps and applied AI aligned with BMW Group development standards architecture principles security controls and engineering practices.
- Act as a hands-on architect: shape target architectures build reference implementations and critical-path code review designs and code and resolve complex cross-product engineering issues.
- Lead the transition from AI-assisted SDLC to AI-DLC by redesigning lifecycle workflows for AI agents human approval gates context and knowledge integration automated quality controls observability evaluation and responsible-AI governance.
- Define and govern architecture patterns for domain-driven microservices APIs event-driven systems data integration identity resilience scalability performance security and observability.
- Drive legacy modernization using pragmatic approaches such as re-platforming refactoring modular monoliths and strangler-pattern decomposition while protecting business continuity.
- Increase technical excellence by establishing measurable debt reduction architecture fitness functions software quality gates secure coding practices SRE disciplines and engineering scorecards.
- Partner with product platform cybersecurity data and business leadership to design and manage the end-to-end SDLC from discovery and architecture through build release operations and continuous improvement.
- Coach solution architects Lead Developers and Feature Team across the Digital Company to build reusable assets and increase reusability across feature teams
- Present technology strategy risks and technical improvement outcomes to CTO and COO; negotiate priorities and manage expectations of BTIs internal stakeholders and BMW stakeholders
What should you bring along
Demonstrated success as an Enterprise Architect Principal Engineer or Distinguished Engineer in a large distributed software organization.
Deep full-stack Java engineering experience and the credibility to work directly in code architecture models CI/CD pipelines and production diagnostics.
Experience leading large-scale digital transformation and legacy modernization across multiple products teams and geographies.
Proven ownership of architecture and end-to-end SDLC governance including non-functional requirements design assurance technical risk and production readiness.
Strong executive communication storytelling presentation facilitation and negotiation skills with experience advising and managing expectations of CTO and other CXO stakeholders.
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related discipline or equivalent professional experience.
Must-have technical skills
- Java 17 / 21 Spring Boot Spring ecosystem REST and asynchronous APIs microservices domain-driven design design patterns JVM performance and secure coding.
- Full-stack development with modern web frameworks such as Angular or React TypeScript API integration and automated testing.
- Cloud-native architecture on AWS Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud; Kubernetes containers service mesh serverless and managed platform services.
- DevSecOps:Git CI/CD artifact management security and developer portals.
- Observability and reliability:Open Telemetry logs metrics traces SLOs/SLIs resilience engineering performance testing incident learning and cost optimization / FinOps.
- AI engineering:LLM application architecture RAG vector search agentic workflows prompt and context engineering model/tool integration evaluation guardrails AI security and production monitoring.
- Data and integration:relational and NoSQL databases Kafka or equivalent event streaming caching API gateways identity and access management.
- Architecture documentation and governance using UML or ArchiMate; architecture decision records threat modeling and automated fitness functions.
Good-to-have technical skills
- Frameworks and credentials such as TOGAF AWS/Azure/GCP Skilled Architect Kubernetes CKA/CKAD DevOps or security certifications.
- Experience with Backstage GitHub Copilot Microsoft GitHub/Azure DevOps ecosystems AI coding agents MCP-based integrations and enterprise developer platforms.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity privacy and quality frameworks such as ISO 27001 NIST SSDF and OWASP LLM Top 10 where relevant to the product context.
- Experience establishing technology radar open-source governance inner-source practices engineering academies or enterprise architecture review boards.
Required Experience:
Director
📌 Technology Titan ( Enterprise Architect- JavaCloud) (Chennai)
🏢 BMW TechWorks
📍 Chennai
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