Solution Architect - Pune

Job Description: Solution Architect

Role Title: Solution Architect

Location:  Pune / Remote

Department: Technology / Engineering / Architecture

Reports To: VP Engineering / Chief Architect 

Company Overview

We are a global empathy-led technology services company where software and people transformations go hand-in-hand.
Product innovation and mature software engineering are part of our core DNA. Our mission is to help our customers accelerate their digital journeys through a global, diverse, and empathetic talent pool following outcome-driven agile execution. Respect, Fairness, Growth, Agility, and Inclusiveness are the core values that we aspire to live by each day.
We continue to invest in our digital strategy, design, cloud engineering, data, and enterprise AI capabilities required to bring a truly integrated approach to solving our client's most ambitious digital journey challenges.

Role Summary

The hands on Solution Architect is responsible for designing end-to-end technology solutions that align with business objectives, scalability needs, and architectural best practices. This role partners with product, engineering, and business teams to translate requirements into robust, secure, and high-performance architectures while maintaining hands-on technical depth.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Strategy & Governance

•            Develop and maintain the architecture blueprint across applications, data, cloud, integrations, and security.

•            Define architectural principles, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and engineering standards.

•            Establish governance models and ensure engineering teams adhere to architectural guidelines.

Technology Road mapping & Innovation

•            Build multi year technology roadmaps aligned with business and digital transformation goals.

•            Evaluate emerging technologies (AI/ML, IoT/Edge, automation, analytics, compute platforms) and drive POCs.

•            Provide technical thought leadership to influence forward-looking architecture.

Solution Architecture Leadership

•            Guide large-scale system architectures, cloud-native solution designs, and modernization initiatives.

•            Ensure design alignment to availability, performance, reliability, cost, security, and compliance needs.

•            Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate business solutions into technical architectures.

Data, Cloud, and Integration Architecture

•            Architect enterprise data ecosystems including governance, pipelines, MDM, analytics, and AI.

•            Lead cloud architecture across Azure/AWS/GCP, ensuring optimal design, scaling, and security.

•            Define enterprise integration patterns—API-led, event-driven, microservices, and streaming.

Security & Compliance

•            Partner with security engineering to embed zero-trust principles, IAM, encryption, and compliance frameworks.

•            Ensure systems and data flows are designed with governance and risk management best practices.

Stakeholder Collaboration

•            Engage with C level leaders, engineering directors, product owners, and business partners.

•            Mentor engineering teams and elevate architectural maturity across the organization.

•            Communicate architectural strategies, decisions, risks, and tradeoffs effectively.

Required Qualifications

•            10+ years of hands on experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or systems design roles.

•            Hands-on experience with MEAN and MERN stack development (Angular/React, Node.js, Express, MongoDB).

•            Strong background working with open-source technology stacks and modern development frameworks.

•            Expert-level understanding of design principles, architectural patterns, and engineering best practices.

•            Principal-level hands-on development experience with the ability to deep-dive into code and lead complex builds.

•            Strong experience designing cloud-native architectures on AWS/Azure/GCP.

•            Understanding of distributed systems, microservices, event-driven patterns, and API-led architectures.

•            Experience with data platforms, analytics ecosystems, and AI/ML integration.

•            Knowledge of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman.

•            Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

•            Experience with modern data lakehouse technologies (Databricks, Delta/Iceberg, Spark).

•            Background in IoT, Edge computing, real-time analytics, or computer vision.

•            Experience driving enterprise modernization or cloud migration initiatives.

•            Professional certifications such as AWS/Azure Architect, TOGAF, or CCSP.

Key Competencies

•            Systems thinking and architectural vision

•            Strong analytical and decision-making skills

•            Ability to influence across engineering and leadership teams

•            Technical depth with hands-on leadership capability

•            Continuous improvement and innovation mindset