Enterprise Architect – Director
  • India – Chennai
  • Full Time

Role Brief:

We are looking for an Enterprise Architect – Director to join our core product development team. As a chief Architect, you will be responsible for designing processes, enforcing relevant architectural patterns, planning/optimizing the IT infrastructure, optimizing business operations by leveraging the right technology toolset and driving technology initiatives including backlog items. Adding to this, improving current IT infrastructure, optimizing business operations for efficiency with an emphasis on knowledge sharing among partners. Ultimately, you will work with a team of IT professionals to oversee our IT infrastructure and help direct our enterprise architecture models.

Responsibilities

  • Drive innovations and product improvements by identifying areas of opportunity for technical improvements in the product stack
  • Actively contribute to the grooming and implementation of backlog items to make the product more robust, self-healing and futuristic
  • Provide business architecture and systems processing guidance
  • Involve proactively with various teams across the organization to solve problems faced by the teams or by our customers
  • Able to analyze the product usage data from LIVE environments to identify strategies that can optimize operational costs and improve application maintainability
  • Identify bottlenecks in applications and devise solutions to ensure the best possible performance, quality, scalability, security and responsiveness of the applications.
  • Suggesting ideas to reduce costs in IT and business leadership
  • Providing business architecture and systems processing guidance
  • Ensuring the efficiency, security, and support of the organization’s goals
  • Creating methods for compliance architecture, such as data storage, metadata management and change control
  • Create business architecture models that aligns with the overall product strategies and goals
  • Identify ways to increase employee knowledge and skills to support future growth
  • Mentor and train the tech lead and architect community with the best practices and technology trends from the global EA community.

Required Skills & Experience

  • 18 – 22 years of overall work experience and 5+ years as an Enterprise Architect or similar role in a SAAS product development organization.
  • Must have requirements:
  • Microsoft .NET Core/Framework as a core programming language skills strong experience on SQL Server or any other RDBMS database
  • Should have worked with AWS/Azure cloud hosting platforms
  • Clean Architecture and Microservices framework
  • Docker, Kubernetes, API Gateway
  • A full stack experience is desirable
  • Should be fairly hands on and should be ready to roll up their sleeves and
  • Excellent technical, analytical and project management skills. End-to-end knowledge from data architecture to tech arch to function to processes.
  • Experience in building scalable and reliable distributed products/systems
  • Drive technology roadmaps and take up research/ POC work for new tools/ technology solutions to support product roadmap.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Good leadership and motivational skills
  • Experience in modelling and graphic representations
  • Bachelor’s degree in information technology is preferred