IN_Manager_ Solutions Architect_Application Technology_Advisory_Mumbai

Job Description & Summary: A career within Technology Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to bring our clients a competitive advantage through defining their technology objectives, assessing solution options, and devising architectural solutions that help them achieve both strategic goals and meet operational requirements. We help build software and design data platforms, manage large volumes of client data, develop compliance procedures for data management, and continually researching new technologies to drive innovation and sustainable change.

Responsibilities:

· Set up technical standards and governance structure for the enterprise.

· Deep expertise in deploying and managing Kubernetes at scale in production environments.

· Familiarity with cloud-native tools and patterns such as Istio, Envoy, or Prometheus for microservices monitoring and management.

· Experience with event-driven systems using tools like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS for inter-service communication.

· Experience with multi-cloud deployments and hybrid cloud strategies.

· Experience with gRPC for high-performance communication between microservices.

· Familiarity with service mesh tools like Istio or Linkerd for managing service-to service communication, observability, and security.

· Experience with OAuth 2.0, JWT, and other authentication/authorization protocols.

· Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.

· Proficiency in CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or Travis CI for automating the deployment process.

· Experience with multi-cloud deployments and hybrid cloud strategies.

· Work closely with DevOps engineers to ensure seamless deployment, monitoring, and scaling of microservices in production environments.

· Communicate effectively with frontend and backend teams to ensure smooth integration between microservices and other parts of the application.

· Write clear, concise documentation for the developed microservices, APIs, and deployment procedures. Ensure that new features are documented and that technical debt is minimized.

· Design microservices to be horizontally scalable and ensure the application can handle varying traffic loads.

· Communicate effectively with frontend and backend teams to ensure smooth integration between microservices and other parts of the application.

· Write unit and integration tests to ensure the quality of microservices. Use testing frameworks like JUnit, TestNG, or Mocha.

· Familiar with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

· Ability to work in cross-functional teams and communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Mandatory skill sets:

• VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Architect
• IBM Cloud Solutions Architect Certification
• Architecting with Google Cloud Platform
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate /Professional
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
• TOGAF® Certification
• Open Certified Architect (Open CA)
• Professional Cloud Solutions Architect Certification
• Red Hat Certified Architect
• Certified Microservices Architect (CMSA)

Proven experience in designing end-to-end enterprise solutions across diverse technology stacks (including application, data, infrastructure, integration, and security layers).

Architecture frameworks (TOGAF/ Zachman), UML/ ArchiMate, end-to-end solution design.

Ability to recommend integration patterns and technologies.

Experience in Enterprise Integration, SOA, Microservices, API Modelling, API-led integration.

Data Modelling, Database Design, Cloud Integration, Security

Ability to derive solution architecture from reference architecture.

Solid knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment.

Deep understanding of - on-premise private cloud or public cloud deployment model.

Support the preparation of content for steering bodies and review boards.
Excellent communication skills, supported by expertise in stakeholder communication, cross-functional collaboration, and change management.

Preferred skill sets:

Ability to integrate Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products with in-house applications, considering scalability, maintainability, and performance

Years of experience required:

Minimum 12 years experience in IT field after completion of under graduation, out of which minimum 5 years should be in Solution Architect role.

Education qualification:

BE/ BTech in (Computer Science/ Computer Science & Engineering/ Information Technology/ Software Engineering/ Electronics & Communications Engineering or equivalent degree in relevant discipline) or MCA or MTech/ MSc in (Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Electronic & Communications Engineering) with MBA in (Information Technology / Finance/ Operations / Marketing / Banking or equivalent degree in relevant discipline)