Enterprise Architect - JAVA

Neurealm; Chennai District; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Neurealm is seeking an Enterprise Architect with 20+ years of IT experience and 3-5 years in Enterprise/Solution Architecture using JAVA. You will lead across Software Engineering, Cloud and data platforms, guiding architecture standards and governance while ensuring business-aligned, scalable, and reliable systems.

The role requires strong hands-on experience with cloud (Azure/AWS), DevOps practices, and multi-cloud or hybrid environments, along with excellent client-facing leadership skills.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of IT experience.
• 3-5 years in Enterprise/Solution Architecture using JAVA.
• Proficient with front-end & back-end technologies.
• Experience in large projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural oversight across Software Engineering, Cloud, and data platforms.
• Define and enforce enterprise-wide architecture standards, guardrails, and reference architectures.
• Ensure alignment between business objectives, engineering practices, and platform capabilities.
• Review and govern solution architectures for scalability, security, cost efficiency, and operability.

Job description

We are seeking a Enterprise Architect with 20+ years of overall IT experience and 3-5 years in Enterprise / Solution Architecture using JAVA. Proficient with Front & Back end technologies. Good expertise working in larger projects.

Tools & Languages:

• Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Microservices.
• RESTful API design and implementation.
• SQL, Relational Databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Teradata), and data pipeline design.
• Containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins, and Maven.

Architect roles:

• Strong hands-on background in software engineering and enterprise architecture
• Experience in Enterprise Application Architect.

Mandatory hands-on experience with SRE practices, including:

• Observability (metrics, logs, traces)
• Reliability engineering and incident management
• Strong expertise in cloud architecture (Azure / AWS ) and distributed systems
• Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automation
• Experience designing and governing highly available, scalable, and resilient systems
• Strong integration experience across custom applications, data platforms.
• Excellent client-facing communication and leadership skills

Job Description of Role:

• Provide architectural oversight across Software Engineering, Cloud, selective Data platforms.
• Define and enforce enterprise-wide architecture standards, guardrails, and reference architectures across engineering practices
• Ensure alignment between business objectives, engineering practices, and platform capabilities
• Review and govern solution architectures across programs for scalability, security, cost efficiency, and operability

2. SRE & Reliability Engineering

• Champion SRE principles across all engineering practices
• Define and govern SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and reliability targets at an enterprise level
• Drive observability-first architecture covering logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and incident response
• Provide architectural oversight for incident management, postmortems, reliability reviews, and capacity planning
• Lead architecture for multi-cloud / hybrid cloud environments (Azure, AWS- any one or Both)
• Define patterns for cloud-native, containerized, and platform-based architectures
• Oversee SaaS, PaaS, environment standardization, and platform governance
• Ensure cloud architectures are optimized for cost, security, reliability, and performance

4. Software Architecture & Modern Engineering

• Define scalable architectures for enterprise-grade web, mobile, and API-driven systems
• Ensure adherence to clean architecture, domain-driven design, and modular design principles
• Review and guide architectural decisions for complex, distributed systems
• Ensure tight alignment between architecture, DevOps, and SRE practices
• Govern CI/CD architecture, deployment strategies, and release reliability
• Promote automation across build, test, deploy, monitoring, and recovery
• Drive adoption of engineering excellence practices across teams

6. Architecture Governance & Quality

• Review solution designs for architectural conformance, reliability, security, and quality
• Own and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts (reference architectures, standards, patterns, diagrams)
• Conduct architecture reviews and provide actionable guidance to delivery teams
• Act as a trusted architectural advisor to customers and internal stakeholders
• Collaborate with onshore architects and customer technology leaders to shape solutions
• Translate business needs into robust, reliable, and future-proof architectures
• Identify and mitigate technical, operational, and reliability risks
• Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, performance, and business continuity requirements

Soft Skills / Other Skills

• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to balance innovation, reliability, and delivery velocity
• Ability to influence across practices without direct authority
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Deep expertise in System Design
• Foresight on long-term IT strategies to align technology with business goals
• across

Educational Qualification:

• Bachelors/masters degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)
• Certifications (Preferred): Azure / AWS ecosystem