Solution Architect/Technical Architect/Application Architect

Understand client business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

Conduct requirement gathering, analysis, solution design, and technical documentation.

Work closely with development, QA, infrastructure, and business teams throughout the project lifecycle.

Provide technical guidance and recommend suitable technologies, architectures, and solutions.

Participate in system integration, implementation, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting.

Analyze existing systems and identify opportunities for optimization and improvement.

Prepare technical specifications, solution documents, architecture diagrams, and project documentation.

Act as a technical point of contact for clients and internal stakeholders.

Identify technical risks, dependencies, and challenges and provide appropriate solutions.

Support pre-sales activities, including technical discussions, solution presentations, and proposal preparation when required.

Stay updated with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices.

Overview:

We are looking for a Principal Architect for a Private Equity backed, fast growing AI First Product Engineering Services firm.

This role will be a key member of the core leadership team of the firm.

He/ She will serve as a strategic technical leader, solution designer, and customer advisor. In this role, you will combine deep and broad-based technical expertise with strong business acumen to architect high-value solutions, lead pre-sales engagements, and mentor our practice/CoE team. You will work closely with customers to understand their business needs, translate them into scalable technical solutions, and guide delivery teams in successful implementation.

Responsibilities:

1. Solutioning & Pre-Sales

●     Engage with customers, understand their business context, and guide them through a discovery and design process leading to a proposed solution

●     Work with sales teams to develop winning proposals, RFP responses, and technical presentations.

●     Will need to take single point ownership of the pre sales process, including client interactions, proposal preparation, presentations, pricing etc

●     Drive proof-of-concepts as part of the pre sales process

●     Build frameworks for different kinds of proposals and presentations to bring in repeatability and efficiency in the process

●     Work closely with marketing to create content around Indexnine offerings, solutions, capabilities and case studies

2. Delivery

●     Provide technical oversight during project delivery, ensuring adherence to architectural principles, standards, and best practices and ensure the as-sold solution is realised

●     Act as a trusted advisor to senior customer stakeholders (CXO level and technical leads). Will need to engage with Customers through delivery as required

●     Create points of view on accounts to help mine and grow accounts.

3. Practice & CoE Development

●     Work closely with the labs. Contribute to the development of new products/ accelerators.

●     Mentor and coach engineers to enhance their technical and customer engagement skills.

4. Thought leadership

●     Keep abreast of technology and produce points of view for Indexnine’s offerings and technical capabilities

●     Represent the company at industry forums, webinars, and client workshops.

●     Be able to independently conduct discovery and solutioning workshops with Customers

Skills/Qualifications:

●     15+ years of overall experience with a blend of architecting, pre sales and technical delivery

●     Should be leading a pre-sales unit in a services organization. Hands-on with designing solutions, proposal writing, estimation, pricing and customer presentations.

●     Broad based technical expertise and having played a Sr Architect role for at least 2 years

●     Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and team leadership skills.

●     Experience working in an IT services environment in the Product Engineering space (i.e designing and building bespoke products/solutions)

●     BE/ Masters degree

About the Role

We are looking for a Solution Architect with 10–15 years of experience to design scalable, secure, and cloud-ready solutions. The role involves working with customers, Senior Solution Architects, business analysts, project managers, and engineering teams across cloud, modernization, microservices, integration, and digital transformation initiatives.

Must Have Skills

• 10–15 years of experience in software development, architecture, and enterprise application delivery.
• Strong experience with Azure and/or AWS and cloud-native architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Microservices, REST APIs, SOA, and system integration.
• Experience in application modernization and cloud migration.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Understanding of cloud security, IAM, networking, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to create architecture diagrams, solution designs, and technical documentation.
• Strong analytical, communication, and customer-facing skills.

Good To Have Skills

• AWS/Azure certifications.
• Experience with Serverless, Event-Driven Architecture, Messaging, and API Management.
• Exposure to SaaS / Multi-Tenant Architecture.
• Knowledge of Generative AI and AI-enabled solutions.
• Experience with pre-sales, POCs, estimations, and technical proposals.
• Exposure to application security and compliance.
• Experience working with global customers and distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solutions and independently own defined architecture workstreams.
• Translate business and technical requirements into application, cloud, integration, and deployment designs.
• Define microservice, API, integration, and data-flow architectures.
• Guide engineering teams on architecture implementation and conduct design/code reviews.
• Contribute to cloud migration, modernization, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Participate in customer workshops, technical discussions, POCs, and solution demonstrations.
• Identify and address architectural, performance, security, and technical risks.
• Ensure solutions follow defined architecture, security, and engineering standards.
• Work closely with the Senior Solution Architect on complex and strategic engagements.
• Develop reusable architecture patterns, templates, and technical accelerators

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Position

Solution Architect/Technical Architect

Experience

·       12 - 16+ years of overall IT experience

·       Significant hands-on experience working as a Solution/Technical Architect

Education

·       B.Tech / M.Tech / MCA / MBA or equivalent

Certifications

·       TOGAF® certification (Level 1/2) preferred to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards

·       Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) and other supporting certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-400, or AZ-500 preferred.

Key Responsibilities

·       Define and evolve the target architecture for .NET-based distributed platform.

·       Architect highly configurable solutions on Azure with strong focus on scalability, tenant isolation, resilience, maintainability, and speed of delivery.

·       Lead solution design across ASP.NET Core services, REST APIs, event-driven workflows, background processing, integration patterns, and shared platform capabilities.

·       Drive adoption of modern .NET and cloud-native patterns including microservices, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, API-first design, and secure service-to-service communication.

·       Partner with engineering teams on real implementation decisions, review critical designs and code paths, and provide hands-on guidance for performance, operability, and production readiness.

·       Architect Azure-native deployment patterns using AKS, containers, API Management, Service Bus/Event Grid or equivalent messaging, Key Vault, managed observability, and CI/CD automation.

·       Work with data and platform teams on PostgreSQL-backed service design, data access patterns, caching strategies, and database performance for high-volume transactional workloads.

·       Define non-functional requirements and architecture guardrails around performance, scalability, availability, recoverability, security, compliance, and cost efficiency.

·       Embed DevSecOps and observability into platform design through telemetry, tracing, alerting, diagnostics, secrets management, and release governance.

·       Evaluate emerging technologies, AI-assisted engineering enablers, and modernization options pragmatically, with clear build-vs-buy and risk-reward trade-offs.

·       Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, contribute to architectural governance, and create reusable patterns, reference implementations, and standards across teams.

·       Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

·       12–16 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or platform engineering, with significant experience in Microsoft technology stacks.

Essential Qualification and Skills

·       Strong hands-on expertise in C#, .NET / .NET Core / .NET 8, ASP.NET Core, Web APIs, background services, and enterprise application design.

·       Deep experience in architecting distributed systems using microservices, asynchronous messaging, event-driven design, and API-led integration patterns.

·       Strong Azure architecture experience, preferably across AKS, App Services, Functions, API Management, Key Vault, Service Bus, Event Grid, Storage, monitoring, and identity integration patterns.

·       Experience designing and supporting platforms, configurable product architectures, and integration-heavy enterprise solutions.

·       Strong understanding of relational databases and performance engineering, especially SQL Server and/or PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexing, query tuning, and transaction handling.

·       Solid grasp of non-functional architecture including performance, scalability, availability, fault isolation, observability, and disaster recovery.

·       Strong understanding of application and platform security including authentication, authorization, secrets management, encryption, secure coding, and compliance-oriented design.

·       Experience with containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and modern DevSecOps practices.

·       Ability to make sound architecture decisions with a balance of pragmatism, delivery speed, engineering quality, and long-term maintainability.

·       Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across product, engineering, architecture, operations, security, and client-facing teams.

Skills & Competencies

·       Experience in insurance, Insurtech, BFSI, or other regulated, transaction-heavy domains.

·       Exposure to policy administration, billing, accounting, claims, workflow orchestration, or reporting platforms within the insurance value chain.

·       Experience with architecture frameworks and modelling approaches such as TOGAF, domain-driven design, UML, C4, or equivalent practical architecture methods.

·       Familiarity with mixed technology landscapes involving .NET, Java/Spring Boot, enterprise workflow tools, and integration ecosystems.

·       Experience with observability and reliability tooling such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Application Insights, Open Telemetry, Grafana, or similar.

·       Working knowledge of Angular, React, or modern web application architecture patterns.

·       Exposure to AI-enabled engineering, intelligent automation, or embedding AI capabilities into enterprise platforms.

·       Leadership experience across globally distributed or virtual teams.