Global Technology Architect

Rwindia; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Rwindia is seeking a Global Technology Architect to shape the target technology landscape, drive cloud transformation, and define database and application strategy across enterprise teams and CxO stakeholders. This senior role provides architecture leadership for cloud, infrastructure, security, automation, and AI-enabled technology evolution.

The role requires deep expertise in architecture governance, platform engineering, and modernization initiatives with a focus on delivering measurable

Qualifications

• 15+ years in infrastructure, cloud, security, and automation in large enterprises.
• Ability to define architecture principles, target states, and transition roadmaps.
• Strong knowledge of cloud transformation and platform engineering.
• Experience with governance, decision making, and simplifying complex concepts.

Responsibilities

• Define target technology landscape, architectures, and multi-year roadmaps.
• Lead enterprise architecture across platforms, cloud, security, and automation.
• Drive scalable, secure cloud adoption patterns and modernization efforts.
• Govern database strategy including standardization, lifecycle, and performance.
• Shape application strategy through hosting choices and integration patterns.
• Assess current architectures and design transition plans to target state.
• Support migration planning and deliver value-driven delivery roadmaps.
• Establish architecture standards, governance, and ADRs.
• Modernize landscape to reduce complexity and technical debt.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud Transformation

Automation

Security-by-Design

Stakeholder Influence

Job description

Job Summary

The Global Technology Architect is a senior enterprise architecture role responsible for shaping the target technology landscape, enabling cloud transformation, defining database and application strategy, and influencing technology decisions across application teams and CxO-level stakeholders. The role provides enterprise architecture leadership across cloud transformation, infrastructure, security, automation, database strategy, application strategy, and AI-enabled technology evolution.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the target technology landscape, target architectures, and multi-year technology roadmaps.
• Lead Enterprise Architecture direction across platforms, infrastructure, cloud, security, automation, database strategy, and application strategy.
• Drive cloud transformation by defining scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud adoption patterns.
• Define and govern database strategy covering standardization, modernization, lifecycle planning, resilience, performance, and platform alignment.
• Shape application strategy through hosting choices, platform adoption, integration patterns, and architecture guardrails.
• Assess baseline architecture and design transition architectures to achieve the target state.
• Support migration planning and convert technology strategy into prioritized, sequenced, value-driven delivery plans.
• Establish enterprise standards, non-functional requirements, architecture principles, and governance frameworks.
• Submit architecture recommendations and decision proposals to the Group Architecture Board.
• Modernize and consolidate the technology landscape to reduce complexity and technical debt while improving cost and performance.
• Identify gaps between current and target architectures and prioritize remediation.Develop and maintain architecture models, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), standards, patterns, and reference models.
• Evaluate business applications and workloads for migration to foundation platforms.
• Influence application teams, technology experts, governance forums, and CxO-level stakeholders through clear architecture recommendations.

Required Skills & Experience

• 15+ years of experience across Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, and Automation in complex enterprise technology environments.
• Strong Enterprise Architecture experience with the ability to define architecture principles, target states, technology standards, and transition roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of cloud transformation and platform engineering.
• Deep knowledge of infrastructure services, security-by-design, and enterprise operating models.
• Proven experience in database strategy, application strategy, rationalization, modernization, migration planning, and lifecycle governance.
• Strong understanding of AI applications in technology modernization, automation, operational efficiency, and developer productivity.
• Practical experience in architecture governance and enterprise technology decision-making.Strong ability to simplify complex technology and architecture concepts for technical and business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• TOGAF certification or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification.
• Experience with enterprise-scale cloud transformation programs.
• Experience with technology modernization and consolidation initiatives.
• Strong exposure to AI-enabled technology evolution and automation.
• Experience working with CxO-level stakeholders and global architecture governance forums.

Other Requirements

• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Ability to work effectively with engineering teams, business stakeholders, technology experts, and executive leadership.
• Strong architecture governance and decision-making capabilities.
• Ability to drive technology standardization while enabling decentralized technology decisions within defined guardrails.
• Strong strategic thinking with a focus on measurable business outcomes.