IN_Manager_Enterprise Solution Architect_Digital Integration_Advisory_Kolkata

Job Description & Summary:

We are seeking an Enterprise Solution Architect with a strong background in enterprise architecture, cloud modernization, infrastructure transformation, application modernization, and data platform design. The ideal candidate should bring hands-on experience in defining target-state architecture, assessing legacy landscapes, and driving end-to-end modernization initiatives across a client’s digital assets, infrastructure, applications, data platforms, and AI-enabled solution environments.

You will be responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing secure, scalable, and future-ready enterprise solutionsleveragingAzure and/or AWS cloud platforms, modernization frameworks, enterprise architecture best practices, and AI-enabled capabilities. This role will partner with business and technology stakeholders to define modernization roadmaps, create reference architectures, guide execution teams, and ensure solutions are aligned with business outcomes.

Job Position Title:

IN_Manager_Enterprise Solution Architect _DigitalIntegration_Advisory_Kolkata

Responsibilities:

• Architect and design scalable, secure, and high-performance enterprise solutions across infrastructure, application, integration, data platform, and AI-enabled solution layers.

• Assess current-state enterprise environments and define target-state architecture and multi-year modernization roadmaps aligned to business transformation goals.

• Lead modernization initiatives for legacy systems by recommending appropriate strategies including rehosting, re-platforming, refactoring, rewriting, or retiring applications and platforms.

• Drive cloud architecture and migration planning across Azure and/or AWS environments, including infrastructure modernization, application refactoring, and platform consolidation.

• Define enterprise architecture blueprints, standards, and reference patterns for cloud, application, integration, and data domains.

• Lead solution design for infrastructure modernization, including scalability, resilience, high availability, disaster recovery, observability, and security controls.

• Guide application modernization initiatives, including API-led architecture, service decomposition, microservices adoption, integration design, and cloud-native transformation.

• Design and govern modern data platform architectures, including data integration, analytics enablement, and alignment with enterprise information architecture.

• Produce architecture artifacts such as architecture blueprints, target-state models, reference architectures, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).

• Establish architecture governance processes and participate in architecture review boards to ensure compliance with enterprise standards and policies.

• Collaborate with business leaders, security teams, delivery teams, and engineering teams to translate business objectives into executable technical solutions.

• Ensure enterprise solutions address non-functional requirements including security, compliance, performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and availability.

• Review solution designs, conduct technical assessments, and provide guidance on risk, feasibility, and implementation approaches across programs and projects.

• Mentor engineering and architecture teams on best practices in modernization, cloud adoption, governance, and enterprise architecture.

• Stay current with enterprise architecture trends, cloud-native technologies, AI-enabled solution patterns, and modernization practices, and recommend innovations that improve business agility and operational efficiency.

Additional Skills

Preferred Certifications:

• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF

• Hands-on experience with Azure and/or AWS cloud platforms, including IaaS, PaaS, and managed services

• Experience in cloud migration and modernization, including rehost, replatform, refactor, rewrite, and legacy retirement strategies

• Strong knowledge of infrastructure architecture, including networking, security, resilience, observability, and disaster recovery

• Experience in application architecture and modernization, including APIs, microservices, integration patterns, and cloud-native design

• Good understanding of data architecture and modern enterprise data platforms

• Familiarity with REST, GraphQL, and event-driven / event-streaming architectures

• Familiarity with AI architecture, including AI/ML solution patterns, enterprise AI integration, intelligent automation, model deployment, inference, and monitoring

• Understanding of how to integrate AI capabilities with enterprise applications, data platforms, APIs, and workflow solutions

• Familiarity with responsible AI, data privacy, model governance, and security considerations in AI-enabled enterprise solutions

• Exposure to Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, AWS AI/ML services, vector search, knowledge retrieval, or conversational AI platforms

• Familiarity with integration technologies, enterprise connectors, and hybrid architecture patterns spanning cloud and on-premises environments

• Experience with architecture governance, architecture artifacts, and decision documentation such as ADRs

• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks and ability to align solution design with enterprise controls

• Strong stakeholder communication and consulting skills, with the ability to engage business and technology leaders across enterprise programs

• TOGAF 10 / TOGAF 9

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

Years of experience required:

10–15 years

Education qualification:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field