Senior Solution Architect
- Pune, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design detailed, modular solution architectures that align with established patterns, roadmaps, and business needs.
- Lead the solution design for small-to-medium initiatives or contribute to larger architecture workstreams.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure high-quality implementation aligned with architecture principles.
- Deliver Solution Architecture artefacts including sequence diagrams, interface contracts, deployment models and integration flows.
- Data Strategy & Governance: by establishing data standards, policies, and security protocols to ensure compliance.
- Apply MACH principles (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) and cloud-native design approaches, ideally with AWS services.
- Ensure foundational elements like security, observability, and integration are built into every solution.
- Work within defined architecture standards, helping to evolve patterns and reusable frameworks.
- Partner with business and technology teams to understand requirements and define pragmatic solutions.
- Support agile delivery teams by providing ongoing architectural guidance during implementation.
- Translate architectural decisions into actionable technical designs and development tasks.
- Embed security and compliance standards (identity, encryption, data protection) in solution designs.
- Identify risks and issues early, proposing mitigation strategies aligned with architecture governance.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
- At least 3–5 years in hands-on solution architecture or technical leadership roles.
- Experience designing and delivering solutions using cloud-native architectures, ideally on AWS.
- Proficient in Integration design patterns, API architecture (REST, event-driven), and microservices.
- Good understanding of Architecture domains (application, data, infrastructure, integration and security).
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and experience with CI/CD pipelines and agile delivery.
- Solid grasp of architecture patterns and trade-offs, with the ability to perform solution analysis and present clear recommendations.
- Experience in one or more relevant domains: Retail Site/Store systems, Payment processing, EV charging, Supply chain or Customer/Consumer facing applications (web/mobile).
- Exposure to technologies like IoT, RFID, Digital Twin, or Telematics is a plus.
- Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred but not mandatory).
- Passionate about engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to articulate architecture decisions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- A problem-solver who enjoys hands-on involvement and learning by doing.
- Product and customer-centric mindset, with an eye for balancing innovation and execution.
- Shape digital experiences across the energy transition from fuelling to EV charging to retail convenience.
- Work with a modern tech stack, experienced architecture teams and global delivery partners.
- Learn and grow in an environment that values technical depth, autonomy and creativity