Chief Architect

Job Description:

Hiring Chief Architect for Pune, Bangalore, and Gurgaon locations.

Experience: 18-25 Years.

Title: Chief Architect - Advisory Digital.

Key Responsibilities:Architecture strategy and roadmap:

• Own target-state enterprise architecture for distributed, cloud-native platforms and products across multiple business units.

• Define and govern reference architectures, blueprints, and standards for multi-tenant SaaS, microservices, and event-driven systems.

• Establish architecture metrics and outcomes tied to business objectives.

Platform engineering and IDP:

• Lead design and rollout of Internal Developer Platforms to standardize golden paths, improve developer experience, and accelerate delivery.

• Define platform SLAs/SLOs, golden templates, and paved roads for services, data, observability, and security.

Cloud architecture and vendor neutrality:

• Architect solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP with a vendor-neutral mindset.

• Define multi-cloud landing zones, tenancy models, and portability patterns.

Multi-tenant SaaS at scale:

• Design and operate secure, scalable, cost-efficient multi-tenant architectures.

• Establish patterns for regionalization, data residency, and compliance controls.

Security, identity, and compliance by design:

• Embed security and privacy controls into architecture (Zero Trust, IAM, secrets management).

• Partner with security and risk teams to implement governance and continuous compliance automation.

DevSecOps and engineering excellence:

• Drive CI/CD, GitOps, policy-as-code, and SRE practices.

• Introduce AI-driven SDLC accelerators and guardrails.

Integration, APIs, and service connectivity:

• Define API strategy and service connectivity patterns.

• Establish event streaming and data-in-motion patterns.

Data and AI platform architecture:

• Guide modern data architectures and AI/ML platforms for model training, deployment, and monitoring.

• Partner with data and product teams to operationalize ML/GenAI responsibly at scale.

Governance and operating model:

• Lead architecture governance across a matrixed enterprise.

• Build and mentor a high-performing architecture community of practice.

Stakeholder leadership and communication: