IN_Manager_Cloud / Data Architects_Digital Integration_Advisory_Kolkata

Job Description & Summary: We are seeking an Enterprise Solution Architect with a strong background in enterprise architecture, cloud modernization, infrastructure transformation, application modernization, and data platform design . The ideal candidate should bring hands-on experience in defining target-state architecture , assessing legacy landscapes, and driving end-to-end modernization initiatives across a client’s digital assets, infrastructure, applications, data platforms, and AI-enabled solution environments. You will be responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing secure, scalable, and future-ready enterprise solutions leveraging Azure and/or AWS cloud platforms, modernization frameworks, enterprise architecture best practices, and AI-enabled capabilities . This role will partner with business and technology stakeholders to define modernization roadmaps, create reference architectures, guide execution teams, and ensure solutions are aligned with business outcomes. Job Position Title: IN_Manager_Cloud / Data Architects_Digital Integration_Advisory_Kolkata Responsibilities: • Architect and design scalable, secure, and high-performance enterprise solutions across infrastructure, application, integration, data platform, and AI-enabled solution layers. • Assess current-state enterprise environments and define target-state architecture and multi-year modernization roadmaps aligned to business transformation goals. • Lead modernization initiatives for legacy systems by recommending appropriate strategies including rehosting, re-platforming, refactoring, rewriting, or retiring applications and platforms. • Drive cloud architecture and migration planning across Azure and/or AWS environments, including infrastructure modernization, application refactoring, and platform consolidation. • Define enterprise architecture blueprints, standards, and reference patterns for cloud, application, integration, and data domains. • Lead solution design for infrastructure modernization, including scalability, resilience, high availability, disaster recovery, observability, and security controls. • Guide application modernization initiatives, including API-led architecture, service decomposition, microservices adoption, integration design, and cloud-native transformation. • Design and govern modern data platform architectures, including data integration, analytics enablement, and alignment with enterprise information architecture. • Produce architecture artifacts such as architecture blueprints, target-state models, reference architectures, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). • Establish architecture governance processes and participate in architecture review boards to ensure compliance with enterprise standards and policies. • Collaborate with business leaders, security teams, delivery teams, and engineering teams to translate business objectives into executable technical solutions. • Ensure enterprise solutions address non-functional requirements including security, compliance, performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and availability. • Review solution designs, conduct technical assessments, and provide guidance on risk, feasibility, and implementation approaches across programs and projects. • Mentor engineering and architecture teams on best practices in modernization, cloud adoption, governance, and enterprise architecture. • Stay current with enterprise architecture trends, cloud-native technologies, AI-enabled solution patterns, and modernization practices, and recommend innovations that improve business agility and operational efficiency. Additional Skills Preferred Certifications: • Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF • Hands-on experience with Azure and/or AWS cloud platforms, including IaaS, PaaS, and managed services • Experience in cloud migration and modernization, including rehost, replatform , refactor, rewrite, and legacy retirement strategies • Strong knowledge of infrastructure architecture, including networking, security, resilience, observability, and disaster recovery • Experience in application architecture and modernization, including APIs, microservices, integration patterns, and cloud-native design • Good understanding of data architecture and modern enterprise data platforms • Familiarity with REST, GraphQL , and event-driven / event-streaming architectures • Familiarity with AI architecture, including AI/ML solution patterns, enterprise AI integration, intelligent automation, model deployment, inference, and monitoring • Understanding of how to integrate AI capabilities with enterprise applications, data platforms, APIs, and workflow solutions • Familiarity with responsible AI, data privacy, model governance, and security considerations in AI-enabled enterprise solutions • Exposure to Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, AWS AI/ML services, vector search, knowledge retrieval, or conversational AI platforms • Familiarity with integration technologies, enterprise connectors, and hybrid architecture patterns spanning cloud and on-premises environments • Experience with architecture governance, architecture artifacts, and decision documentation such as ADRs • Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks and ability to align solution design with enterprise controls • Strong stakeholder communication and consulting skills, with the ability to engage business and technology leaders across enterprise programs • TOGAF 10 / TOGAF 9 • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) Years of experience required : 10 – 15 years Education qualification: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science , Information Technology, Engineering , or a related field