We are looking for a practical and customer-facing Tech Architect for an IT services environment. The role involves supporting engagements from pre-sales and solutioning through architecture definition, delivery guidance, and execution reviews.

The person should be comfortable working with customers, shaping solution options, guiding engineering teams, and ensuring the solution is both technically sound and realistically deliverable.

Architects in this role are expected to be polyglots, with the ability to work across multiple technologies based on customer need and context.

Key Responsibilities :

- Participate in pre-sales discussions, discovery sessions, and solution workshops with customers.

- Understand business requirements, current landscape, and technical constraints, and convert them into practical architecture.

- Support solutioning, estimation, proposal inputs, and scope shaping.

- Define end-to-end architecture for applications, platforms, integrations, and modernization initiatives.

- Guide engineering teams on design, scalability, performance, security, and integration approach.

- Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, and delivery execution reviews during the project lifecycle.

- Identify technical risks and dependencies early and support teams in resolving them.

- Work closely with delivery managers, engineering managers, developers, and customer stakeholders to keep execution aligned to the proposed architecture.

- Drive reuse through standard patterns, reference architectures, and good engineering practices.

Skills & Experience :

- 12 to 18 years of experience in software engineering, architecture, and enterprise delivery.

- Strong experience in an IT services / consulting environment across customer-facing engagements.

- Good exposure to pre-sales support, solution shaping, estimation, and technical proposal discussions.

- Strong architecture experience across enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, and scalable digital platforms.

- Architects are expected to be polyglots, with exposure to multiple technology stacks.

- Experience across technologies such as Java, Ruby on Rails, Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Node.js, .NET, or similar ecosystems.

- Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, cloud platforms, distributed systems, and integration patterns.

- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.

- Good understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, and engineering governance.

- Strong communication skills and the ability to work across customers, internal teams, and leadership.

Preferred Domain Exposur :

Experience in one or more of the following will be useful :

- Supply Chain

- Manufacturing

- Music / Digital platforms

- Financial Services

- Enterprise transformation programs