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    Solution Architect – Data & AI Solutions

    Hyderabad, IndiaOn-SiteFull-time15+ yrs experiencePosted 3w ago
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    Job description

    • Job Role: Architecture-Solution Architect
    • Experience (In Years): 12-15
    • Job Location: Hyderabad

    Key Responsibilities:

    Presales & Client Engagement

    • Partner with sales and industry teams to design client-ready demos, proof-of-concepts, and technical solution blueprints.
    • Present complex architectures in a clear, business-outcome-driven manner to both executive and technical stakeholders.
    • Contribute to RFP/RFI responses, solution proposals, and deal shaping.
    • Act as a trusted advisor in client conversations, highlighting differentiators of Data & AI Solutions.

    Solution Architecture & Demo Environments

    • Architect distributed, scalable, and resilient data and AI platforms for presales demonstrations.
    • Design abstraction layers for multi-model AI orchestration, including fallback logic, dynamic model switching, and cost control.
    • Lead implementation of event-driven architectures using messaging frameworks (Kafka, Pulsar, SQS, etc.) and state machines.
    • Build reusable, industry-specific demo environments leveraging hyperscaler services and data platforms.

    Observability, Security & Compliance

    • Define and enforce observability standards for demo and enterprise environments (logging, tracing, telemetry, real-time alerting).
    • Implement zero-trust security models (RBAC/ABAC, IAM, OAuth2, encryption, API gateways).
    • Ensure all demo and client environments meet compliance standards such as HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2.

    Cross-Functional Collaboration

    • Work with Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Governance teams to align demos with business/regulatory needs.
    • Collaborate with IMUs (verticals) to build domain-specific demo templates (e.g., Insurance claims, Healthcare payment integrity, Banking KYC/fraud, Retail personalization).
    • Provide hands-on support to engineering teams during delivery, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.

    Innovation & Technical Leadership

    • Stay ahead of hyperscaler advancements, AI/ML frameworks, and orchestration patterns.
    • Drive technical due diligence, PoCs, and vendor/platform evaluations.
    • Create technical artifacts (architecture diagrams, design patterns, runbooks).
    • Mentor presales engineers and junior architects in solution design and client presentation skills.

    Qualifications:

    • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
    • Certifications preferred:
      • Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
      • Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem.
    • Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, SAFe).

    Skills & Experience

    Must-Have Skills & Experience

    • 15+ years in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.
    • Hands-on expertise in at least two hyperscaler platforms:
      • Azure (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Azure ML, Power BI).
      • AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, SageMaker, Lake Formation).
      • GCP (BigQuery, Dataplex, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub).
    • Proven experience architecting distributed systems, microservices, and scalable AI/ML platforms.
    • Strong knowledge of Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage, and DataOps.
    • Expertise in event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows.
    • Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
    • Advanced programming with Python (async), TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go.
    • Familiarity with Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), serverless design patterns.
    • Experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps, Terraform, Helm.
    • Strong presentation, storytelling, and client engagement skills.

    Preferred Skills

    • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms and usage-based billing.
    • Familiarity with data mesh, knowledge graphs, and semantic interoperability.
    • Knowledge of frontend architecture patterns (micro-frontends, data visualizations).
    • Experience building presales demo or sandbox environments.

    Exposure to agentic AI concepts and LLM-based orchestration.

    Responsibilities

    Key Responsibilities:

    Presales & Client Engagement

    • Partner with sales and industry teams to design client-ready demos, proof-of-concepts, and technical solution blueprints.
    • Present complex architectures in a clear, business-outcome-driven manner to both executive and technical stakeholders.
    • Contribute to RFP/RFI responses, solution proposals, and deal shaping.
    • Act as a trusted advisor in client conversations, highlighting differentiators of Data & AI Solutions.

    Solution Architecture & Demo Environments

    • Architect distributed, scalable, and resilient data and AI platforms for presales demonstrations.
    • Design abstraction layers for multi-model AI orchestration, including fallback logic, dynamic model switching, and cost control.
    • Lead implementation of event-driven architectures using messaging frameworks (Kafka, Pulsar, SQS, etc.) and state machines.
    • Build reusable, industry-specific demo environments leveraging hyperscaler services and data platforms.

    Observability, Security & Compliance

    • Define and enforce observability standards for demo and enterprise environments (logging, tracing, telemetry, real-time alerting).
    • Implement zero-trust security models (RBAC/ABAC, IAM, OAuth2, encryption, API gateways).
    • Ensure all demo and client environments meet compliance standards such as HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2.

    Cross-Functional Collaboration

    • Work with Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Governance teams to align demos with business/regulatory needs.
    • Collaborate with IMUs (verticals) to build domain-specific demo templates (e.g., Insurance claims, Healthcare payment integrity, Banking KYC/fraud, Retail personalization).
    • Provide hands-on support to engineering teams during delivery, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.

    Innovation & Technical Leadership

    • Stay ahead of hyperscaler advancements, AI/ML frameworks, and orchestration patterns.
    • Drive technical due diligence, PoCs, and vendor/platform evaluations.
    • Create technical artifacts (architecture diagrams, design patterns, runbooks).
    • Mentor presales engineers and junior architects in solution design and client presentation skills.

    Qualifications:

    • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
    • Certifications preferred:
      • Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
      • Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem.
    • Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, SAFe).

    Skills & Experience

    Must-Have Skills & Experience

    • 15+ years in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.
    • Hands-on expertise in at least two hyperscaler platforms:
      • Azure (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Azure ML, Power BI).
      • AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, SageMaker, Lake Formation).
      • GCP (BigQuery, Dataplex, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub).
    • Proven experience architecting distributed systems, microservices, and scalable AI/ML platforms.
    • Strong knowledge of Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage, and DataOps.
    • Expertise in event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows.
    • Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
    • Advanced programming with Python (async), TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go.
    • Familiarity with Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), serverless design patterns.
    • Experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps, Terraform, Helm.
    • Strong presentation, storytelling, and client engagement skills.

    Preferred Skills

    • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms and usage-based billing.
    • Familiarity with data mesh, knowledge graphs, and semantic interoperability.
    • Knowledge of frontend architecture patterns (micro-frontends, data visualizations).
    • Experience building presales demo or sandbox environments.

    Exposure to agentic AI concepts and LLM-based orchestration.

    Qualifications

    Key Responsibilities:

    Presales & Client Engagement

    • Partner with sales and industry teams to design client-ready demos, proof-of-concepts, and technical solution blueprints.
    • Present complex architectures in a clear, business-outcome-driven manner to both executive and technical stakeholders.
    • Contribute to RFP/RFI responses, solution proposals, and deal shaping.
    • Act as a trusted advisor in client conversations, highlighting differentiators of Data & AI Solutions.

    Solution Architecture & Demo Environments

    • Architect distributed, scalable, and resilient data and AI platforms for presales demonstrations.
    • Design abstraction layers for multi-model AI orchestration, including fallback logic, dynamic model switching, and cost control.
    • Lead implementation of event-driven architectures using messaging frameworks (Kafka, Pulsar, SQS, etc.) and state machines.
    • Build reusable, industry-specific demo environments leveraging hyperscaler services and data platforms.

    Observability, Security & Compliance

    • Define and enforce observability standards for demo and enterprise environments (logging, tracing, telemetry, real-time alerting).
    • Implement zero-trust security models (RBAC/ABAC, IAM, OAuth2, encryption, API gateways).
    • Ensure all demo and client environments meet compliance standards such as HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2.

    Cross-Functional Collaboration

    • Work with Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Governance teams to align demos with business/regulatory needs.
    • Collaborate with IMUs (verticals) to build domain-specific demo templates (e.g., Insurance claims, Healthcare payment integrity, Banking KYC/fraud, Retail personalization).
    • Provide hands-on support to engineering teams during delivery, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.

    Innovation & Technical Leadership

    • Stay ahead of hyperscaler advancements, AI/ML frameworks, and orchestration patterns.
    • Drive technical due diligence, PoCs, and vendor/platform evaluations.
    • Create technical artifacts (architecture diagrams, design patterns, runbooks).
    • Mentor presales engineers and junior architects in solution design and client presentation skills.

    Qualifications:

    • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
    • Certifications preferred:
      • Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
      • Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem.
    • Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, SAFe).

    Skills & Experience

    Must-Have Skills & Experience

    • 15+ years in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.
    • Hands-on expertise in at least two hyperscaler platforms:
      • Azure (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Azure ML, Power BI).
      • AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, SageMaker, Lake Formation).
      • GCP (BigQuery, Dataplex, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub).
    • Proven experience architecting distributed systems, microservices, and scalable AI/ML platforms.
    • Strong knowledge of Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage, and DataOps.
    • Expertise in event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows.
    • Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
    • Advanced programming with Python (async), TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go.
    • Familiarity with Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), serverless design patterns.
    • Experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps, Terraform, Helm.
    • Strong presentation, storytelling, and client engagement skills.

    Preferred Skills

    • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms and usage-based billing.
    • Familiarity with data mesh, knowledge graphs, and semantic interoperability.
    • Knowledge of frontend architecture patterns (micro-frontends, data visualizations).
    • Experience building presales demo or sandbox environments.

    Exposure to agentic AI concepts and LLM-based orchestration.

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