Enterprise Architect - India
The Enterprise Architect will lead architecture governance, evaluate solutions across business, data, application, and technology domains, and guide teams on design, integration, and Azure cloud strategies while collaborating with both business and technical stakeholders.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Chennai
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Significant experience in enterprise, domain, or solution architecture across at least three BDAT domains with deep expertise in one
- Direct experience participating in or supporting an Architecture Review Board or comparable governance body
- Experience developing architecture artifacts such as capability models, roadmaps, reference architectures, and decision records
- Hands‑on background in a hybrid enterprise environment spanning on‑premises infrastructure and a major public cloud
- Experience with application portfolio rationalization, integration architecture, or large‑scale modernization of legacy/mainframe workloads
- Exposure to regulated or audited environments and related compliance obligations
- Strong grasp of enterprise integration patterns, API and event‑driven architecture
- Solid data architecture fundamentals: modeling, master/reference data, data governance, analytics platform patterns
- Working knowledge of Azure PaaS/SaaS services, networking, identity, security controls, routing, VPNs, firewalls, load balancing
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation tooling (Terraform, PowerShell, Python)
- Ability to evaluate and articulate cost, risk, and TCO implications of architecture options
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong facilitation skills and composure to run sessions with disagreeing stakeholders
Nice to have
- Practical Azure experience
- TOGAF certification (Foundation or Practitioner)
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert or comparable cloud architecture certification
- Security, data, or integration certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, CDMP)
Full description
Why you'll LOVE Sagent:
You could work anywhere. We know you are talented and looking for something inspiring and impactful. A place where you will make a difference and have a great time doing it!
By choosing Sagent, you can be part of our mission to make loans and homeownership simpler and safer for all US consumers.
Sagent powers servicers and consumers. You power Sagent!
About the Opportunity:
We are seeking an Enterprise Architect to help lead the architecture change process governed by our Architecture Review Board (ARB). In this role you will evaluate proposed solutions across the full enterprise architecture landscape — Business, Data, Application, and Technology (BDAT) — assess them against our architecture principles, standards, and target-state roadmaps, and guide project and solution teams toward designs that are sound, secure, cost-effective, and strategically aligned.
This is a breadth-first role with depth in at least one domain. You will spend less time building systems and more time shaping how systems fit together, why they should exist, and what the enterprise should stop doing. You will need to be equally credible talking about a value stream with a business VP and a network topology with an infrastructure engineer.
Our environment includes on-premises data centers, mainframe workloads deployed to cloud, and a substantial Microsoft Azure footprint, so practical hybrid-enterprise experience matters.
Your Day-to-Day at Sagent:Architecture Governance and the Review Board
- Co-lead the intake, triage, and review of architecture change requests entering the ARB, ensuring each submission has the artifacts, context, and analysis needed for an informed decision.
- Assess proposals against enterprise architecture principles, reference architectures, standards, and target-state roadmaps; identify risks, gaps, dependencies, and overlaps with existing capabilities.
- Facilitate ARB sessions: frame the decision, surface trade-offs, drive to a clear outcome, and prevent reviews from becoming design workshops.
- Author and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), conditional approvals, and time-bound exceptions or waivers, including the remediation path attached to each exception.
- Track accepted architecture risk and technical debt created through waivers, and report on it to governance and leadership forums.
- Evolve the governance process itself — review criteria, submission templates, fast-track paths for low-risk changes, and the definition of what does and does not require ARB review.
- Coach solution architects, engineers, and product teams so that proposals arrive review-ready and the standards are understood before designs are drawn.