Chief Solutions Architect

GlobalLogic; Dadri; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

GlobalLogic in India seeks a Principal Architect (Enterprise / Lead Architect) to own end-to-end enterprise architecture for a cloud-connected Building Management System platform. You will guide multi-team design across Java/Spring microservices on Azure Kubernetes Service, IoT integration, data stores, and AI-native capabilities; mentor architects and lead architecture governance.

You will set target-state architecture, ensure non-functional requirements, and collaborate with executive

Qualifications

• 18+ years in software architecture
• 5+ years in Principal/Enterprise Architect capacity
• Hands-on architecture leadership across multiple tracks
• Experience with cloud-native, microservices-based platforms
• Strong governance and stakeholder communication skills

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end enterprise architecture across cloud, IoT, data, frontend, and integration layers
• Define and enforce technology standards and design patterns; chair Architecture Governance Board
• Lead and mentor a team of architects across backend, frontend, data, and cloud-to-edge tracks
• Guide AI-first practices and AI-native capabilities across the delivery lifecycle
• Set and communicate the target-state architecture and roadmaps to stakeholders

Skills

Java / Spring microservices

Azure cloud architecture

Kubernetes

IoT integration

AI-first development

Tools

Azure Kubernetes Service

Azure IoT Hub

PostgreSQL

Job description

Principal Architect Enterprise / Lead Architect | Building Management System Platform ROLE SNAPSHOT Position: Principal Architect (Enterprise / Lead Architect Role) Experience Required: 18+ years in software architecture, with 5+ years in a Principal / Enterprise Architect capacity Engagement Model: Full-time, hands-on architecture leadership role

ABOUT THE PLATFORM

A mission-critical, cloud-connected Building Management System (BMS) platform that unifies energy management, access control, fire & alarm, and building automation for enterprise customers across several countries.

The platform is a large distributed system: Java / Spring microservices on Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service, cloud-to-edge integration into IoT field controllers via Azure IoT Hub / DPS / Event Hubs, PostgreSQL data stores, and increasingly AI-native product capabilities (in-product Energy Domain AI Assistant, in-flight Agentic AI, and AI-first development lifecycle practices used across the engineering organization). The platform operates under strict correctness, data-sovereignty, and availability requirements.

ROLE SUMMARY

The Principal Architect owns the end-to-end enterprise architecture and leads the platform's architecture practice. This is an enterprise architect role: the incumbent sets the target-state architecture, governs technology standards and non-functional requirements, brokers cross-team design decisions, and serves as the executive-level architecture advisor to program leadership and the customer. The incumbent leads and mentors a team of Solution and Lead Architects across backend, frontend, data platform, and cloud-to-edge tracks, while partnering closely with dedicated firmware, controller, DevOps, data engineering, and QA teams. The role is expected to champion AI-first practices across the delivery lifecycle and continue to expand AI-native capabilities in the product.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Enterprise Architecture Ownership - Own and evolve the target-state architecture across cloud (Azure), IoT, data, frontend, and integration layers including the reference architecture, integration contracts, and non-functional guarantees around correctness, data sovereignty, availability, and scale.
• Define and enforce technology standards, architecture principles, and design patterns across delivery teams; chair the platform's Architecture Governance Board.
• Own the platform-level architecture roadmap: modernization initiatives, technical debt reduction, cloud-cost optimization, and new-market-readiness (multi-region rollout, data-sovereignty, localization).Serve as the primary architecture point-of-contact for the customer's enterprise architects and technical stakeholders.
• Cross-Team Design Leadership - Broker design decisions across backend microservices, frontend applications, data platform, firmware / controller, and DevOps delivery teams; resolve architecture trade-offs at the program level.
• Set the architecture direction for the nightly Energy Attribution and Supply Attribution pipeline, and safeguard energy calculation correctness through AI-driven verification practices.Guide the cloud-to-edge integration strategy in partnership with firmware and controller teams (hands-on firmware / controller experience is not required cross-team architecture leadership is).Guide the environment, release, and observability strategy in partnership with the DevOps team.
• AI-First Product & Delivery - Champion the AI-First Development Lifecycle (AI DLC) AI-assisted code review, algorithm correctness verification, architecture and knowledge documentation generation, localization defect remediation, and operational diagnostics across Backend, Frontend, and Data Platform teams.
• Own the architecture for AI-native product capabilities: the in-product Energy Domain AI Assistant (EnerSense) and upcoming Agentic AI capabilities (SOP guidance, alarm response, cross-domain natural-language reporting).
• Set standards for enterprise-safe AI: identity inheritance, data grounding, model-agnosticism (Azure AI Foundry-hosted GPT / Claude), evaluation, and observability.

PEOPLE

• Leadership & Governance - Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Solution Architects and Lead Architects; own their career development, performance, and technical progression.
• Establish and run architecture review forums, design-decision records (ADRs), and cross-team architecture syncs.Represent the platform architecture in executive steering committees, customer QBRs, and pre-sales engagements.Drive knowledge-sharing, onboarding of new architects, and architecture-community-of-practice contributions (reference architectures, playbooks, internal talks).

EXECUTIVE

• Advisory & Client Engagement - Advise the customer's leadership on architecture direction, technology selection, build-vs-buy decisions, and cost / scale / reliability trade-offs.
• Contribute to pre-sales solutioning, RFP responses, and roadmap conversations for adjacent expansions (Access .