- Strong expertise in Java/Python, Spring Boot, Microservices, MicroFrontend, REST APIs, GraphQL, and distributed systems.

- IT Architecture : Through cross-team collaboration, define the technology and architecture that connects solutions across products and platforms while guiding engineering teams in solution design and implementation.

- Solution Decomposition : Decompose complex solutions into manageable components to reduce cognitive load for teams and ARTs, leveraging existing internal and external capabilities to accelerate delivery and optimize costs.

- Solution Feasibility and Sustainability : Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to ensure solutions are feasible, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards and best practices.

- Non-Functional Requirements : Own and govern non-functional requirements, ensuring solutions meet performance, scalability, security, reliability, maintainability, and compliance expectations.

- Delivery Approach : Partner with architects, engineering teams, and stakeholders to define appropriate delivery models, processes, tooling, and service design approaches.

- Technical Risks and Opportunities : Identify technical risks, trade-offs, dependencies, and continuous improvement opportunities while providing architectural recommendations.

- Emerging Technologies : Continuously evaluate industry trends, emerging technologies, AI capabilities, and internal platform innovations to drive technology modernization and strategic adoption.

Key Skills & Experience :

- 10 - 15 years of IT experience with a strong Java technology stack.

- Proven experience as a Solution Architect / Technical Architect, designing and delivering enterprise-scale solutions.

- Strong expertise in Java/Python, Spring Boot, Microservices, MicroFrontend, REST APIs, GraphQL, and distributed systems.

- Hands-on experience with GCP (Preferred), or Azure/AWS, including cloud-native architecture, modernization, and digital transformation initiatives.

- Strong understanding of solution architecture, integration architecture, application modernization, scalability, security, performance, architecture governance, and enterprise integration patterns.

- Experience in solution decomposition, architecture governance, and designing reusable platform capabilities across multiple Agile teams and ARTs.

- Experience managing non-functional requirements, including scalability, resilience, security, observability, maintainability, and compliance.

- Experience collaborating with architects, engineering teams, product management, and business stakeholders to define solution feasibility and delivery approaches.

- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and mentoring skills.

- Experience evaluating emerging technologies, AI/GenAI opportunities, and driving technology standardization and innovation.

- TOGAF Certification - Mandatory.

- Cloud Certification - GCP (Preferred) / Azure / AWS.

- AI/Generative AI Certification - Preferred.