Lead Enterprise Architect

Job Description

Job Description:

Being part of the enterprise architecture team to help develop the as-is and destination architectures for strategic platforms. Work with enterprise solution and system architects to build architectural roadmaps, standards, policies, and governance for key areas including microservices, integration, and automation through the product roadmaps. Responsible for the long-term strategic vision, thinking about the big picture together with business and technical stakeholders. Sets the vision & framework for architecture styles, platforms, and tools. Enterprise architects are an enabler of change from a business–technology perspective, and help transformation succeed through hands-on demonstrations of new principles and approaches, communicating changes across many viewpoints and governing progress toward overall strategy for IT capabilities.

Role & Responsibilities:

Able to understand Business requirements and relate them to Architecture, Design & Implementation. Proven leadership managing teams which implement sophisticated architectures. Understands key concepts within the Quote, Order, and/or Service Assurance, Service Management space. This includes helping deliver key architectures to support SaaS implementations, Digital Transformation, and Data Transformation. The successful candidate will be able to participate in design reviews and demos as part of implementation meetings. Help architects’ outline solution/systems level/low level designs for work they are involved in. Some aspects of the job will include:

• Builds architectural strategy and vision for product roadmaps
• Performs architectural governance for Application Architecture’s and Api’s
• Support key corporate initiatives to meet critical timelines related to architectural and product roadmaps
• Drive Api and Event Driven Architectures
• Top level escalation point for architectural decisions and issues
• Follow up with various stakeholders to review roadmaps
• Drives technology decisions across the organization and deliver industry standard recommendations
• Drive Application and Technology to support business capabilities
• Drive enterprise architecture landscape and product roadmaps
• Collaborates to develop high-level e2e technical and functional architecture

Required Characteristics:

• Good communicator who can translate business requires and gather necessary information from business owners / scrum masters / business analysts / senior leaders
• Good Design and Programming skills using a variety of technologies
• Detailed Oriented, organized, accountable
• Understands Software Development processes
• Understands key Architectural Design Principles
• Desire to learn about a rapidly changing industry tools and technology
• Ability to align / work with Org initiatives quickly
• Should be strong collaborator and coordinator

Essential Skills:

Cloud Architectures (Azure/GCP/AWS), Microservices/Api Driven Architecture, Java/asp.net/asp.net core, Event Driven Architecture, Container Technologies , DW & BI – Data Warehousing

• SAFe/Agile Methodologies
• Git/GitLab/GitHub
• RDBMS/NoSql (Cassandra)
• Kafka/JMS, Other
• ServiceNow CSM/ITSM

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Proven experience (10+ years) in enterprise architecture, with a track record of successfully leading and implementing architectural strategies.
• Strong understanding of architectural frameworks and methodologies (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman).
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills.
• Effective leadership and team management abilities.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in driving change management and fostering a culture of innovation.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies such as cloud computing, microservices, and AI/ML.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS/Azure certifications) are a plus.

Location – Bangalore/Noida