Enterprise Architect - Java

Job Description :

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect with 20 years of overall IT experience and 3 - 5 years in Enterprise / Solution Architecture using JAVA.

Proficient with Front & Back end technologies. Good expertise working in larger projects.

Tools & Languages :

• Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Microservices.
• RESTful API design and implementation.
• JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern frameworks like ReactJS or Angular.
• SQL, Relational Databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Teradata), and data pipeline design.
• Containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins, and Maven.

Requirement :

• Strong hands-on background in software engineering and enterprise architecture.
• Experience in Enterprise Application Architect.
• Mandatory hands-on experience with SRE practices, including :
• SLI / SLO / SLA definition.
• Observability (metrics, logs, traces).
• Reliability engineering and incident management.
• Proven experience providing architecture oversight across multiple engineering practices.
• Strong expertise in cloud architecture (Azure / AWS) and distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automation.
• Experience designing and governing highly available, scalable, and resilient systems.
• Strong integration experience across custom applications, data platforms.
• Excellent client-facing communication and leadership skills.

Job Description of Role :

1. Enterprise & Engineering Practice Oversight :

• Provide architectural oversight across Software Engineering, Cloud, selective Data platforms.
• Define and enforce enterprise-wide architecture standards, guardrails, and reference architectures across engineering practices.
• Ensure alignment between business objectives, engineering practices, and platform capabilities.
• Review and govern solution architectures across programs for scalability, security, cost efficiency, and operability.

2. SRE & Reliability Engineering :

• Champion SRE principles across all engineering practices.
• Define and govern SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and reliability targets at an enterprise level.
• Drive observability-first architecture covering logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and incident response.
• Embed resilience patterns (HA, DR, fault tolerance, auto-healing, chaos engineering) into solution designs.
• Provide architectural oversight for incident management, postmortems, reliability reviews, and capacity planning.

3. Cloud & Platform Architecture :

• Lead architecture for multi-cloud / hybrid cloud environments (Azure, AWS any one or Both).
• Define patterns for cloud-native, containerized, and platform-based architectures.
• Oversee SaaS, PaaS, environment standardization, and platform governance.
• Ensure cloud architectures are optimized for cost, security, reliability, and performance.

4. Software Architecture & Modern Engineering :

• Define scalable architectures for enterprise-grade web, mobile, and API-driven systems.
• Govern use of modern frameworks and stacks across practices (.NET, Java, Python, JavaScript frameworks, APIs).
• Ensure adherence to clean architecture, domain-driven design, and modular design principles.
• Review and guide architectural decisions for complex, distributed systems.

5. DevOps, CI/CD & Engineering Enablement :

• Ensure tight alignment between architecture, DevOps, and SRE practices.
• Govern CI/CD architecture, deployment strategies, and release reliability.
• Promote automation across build, test, deploy, monitoring, and recovery.
• Drive adoption of engineering excellence practices across teams.

6. Architecture Governance & Quality :

• Review solution designs for architectural conformance, reliability, security, and quality.
• Own and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts (reference architectures, standards, patterns, diagrams).
• Conduct architecture reviews and provide actionable guidance to delivery teams.

7. Customer & Stakeholder Alignment :

• Act as a trusted architectural advisor to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with onshore architects and customer technology leaders to shape solutions.
• Translate business needs into robust, reliable, and future-proof architectures.

8. Risk Management & Compliance :

• Identify and mitigate technical, operational, and reliability risks.
• Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, performance, and business continuity requirements.

Soft Skills / Other Skills :

• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to balance innovation, reliability, and delivery velocity.
• Ability to influence across practices without direct authority.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Deep expertise in System Design.
• Foresight on long-term IT strategies to align technology with business goals.

Educational Qualification :

• Bachelors/masters degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Certifications (Preferred) : Azure / AWS ecosystem.