Required Experience, minimum: 15 years

Required Experience, maximum: 20 years

- Skills: Java - Architecting, Cloud AWS, API, Azure, microservices, Spring boot, Event Driven, Design Concepts, AI Tools, CI/CD Integration, Testing Tools

Minimum Qualification: BE

BTECH

- MCA

Role Technology Titan | Hands-on Enterprise Architect - Java, Cloud DevOps & AI

Location

Chennai | Flexibility for business travel

Experience

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 BTI’s 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.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent qualified 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 Professional 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.

📌 Technology Titan ( Enterprise Architect- Java/Cloud) (Chennai)
🏢 BMW TechWorks India
📍 Chennai