Senior Application Architect - Delivery Manager

Acuity Analytics; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 450,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity Analytics is seeking a Senior Application Architect to guide modernization programs, including architecture assessment, migration planning, and operational readiness across enterprise environments.

The role requires hands-on expertise in .NET, REST APIs, and cloud-native patterns, with emphasis on secure, scalable, and resilient systems. You will collaborate with architecture, infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams to ensure successful delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise application modernization and migration programs.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and containerized deployments.
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs, middleware platforms, and enterprise integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture assessment and modernization planning across enterprise ecosystems.
• Define future-state architecture aligned to cloud-enabled principles and microservices.
• Provide guidance on Azure/Kubernetes-based deployments and data/ reporting platforms.
• Coordinate with multiple teams to manage dependencies and environment readiness.
• Support migration planning, cutover, and operational stabilization.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

.NET technologies

REST APIs

Event-driven architecture

API-led integration

Cloud-native / cloud-agnostic

CI/CD / DevOps

Stakeholder management

Migration planning

Cross-functional coordination

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AKS

Kafka

API gateways

PostgreSQL

MSSQL

Job description

Job Purpose

The Senior Application Architect will support application architecture assessment, migration planning, operational readiness, and transformation initiatives associated with enterprise application modernization and migration programs. The role will work closely with application, infrastructure, security, middleware, data, reporting, and operations teams to support current‑state assessment, target‑state alignment, dependency management, integration planning, operational stabilization, and implementation oversight across enterprise application environments. The role will provide both strategic architecture guidance and hands‑on technical expertise across enterprise application landscapes, service‑oriented and event‑driven architectures, middleware environments, reporting platforms, integration frameworks, database ecosystems, deployment models, resiliency considerations, and operational support requirements to ensure application dependencies, integration touchpoints, and implementation activities are aligned with agreed project timelines, operational objectives, and governance requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead application architecture assessment, modernization planning, and target‑state architecture alignment activities across enterprise application ecosystems and distributed platform environments.
• Analyze current‑state application architecture, integration dependencies, middleware interactions, batch processing flows, reporting platforms, deployment models, operational dependencies, database ecosystems, and resiliency considerations to support migration and modernization planning activities.
• Define and support future‑state application architecture aligned to cloud‑agnostic modernization principles, containerized deployment models, microservices‑based architecture, event‑driven integration patterns, API‑led connectivity, resiliency standards, scalability requirements, and operational supportability objectives.
• Provide architecture guidance and hands‑on technical support for modernization initiatives involving Microsoft .NET technologies, REST APIs, middleware platforms, event streaming frameworks, container orchestration platforms, enterprise databases, reporting systems, and enterprise integration platforms.
• Support design and implementation planning for cloud‑enabled and cloud‑agnostic platforms leveraging Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, API gateways, CI/CD pipelines, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, and enterprise integration frameworks.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, security, application development, DevOps, middleware, database, reporting, and operations teams to manage architecture dependencies, deployment considerations, environment readiness, and operational alignment activities.
• Support application migration planning including deployment sequencing, dependency mapping, rollback planning, database transition considerations, integration validation, operational readiness coordination, and implementation governance activities.
• Participate in technical troubleshooting, root cause analysis, operational stabilization, deployment validation, database connectivity troubleshooting, and migration‑related issue resolution discussions during implementation and cutover activities.
• Support architecture governance processes including technical review boards, implementation walkthroughs, migration readiness reviews, environment validation discussions, and operational transition checkpoints.
• Contribute to enterprise modernization initiatives involving microservices transformation, API modernization, event‑driven integration adoption, infrastructure decoupling, containerization strategy, cloud enablement, database modernization, and platform standardization initiatives.
• Support architecture documentation activities including current‑state architecture diagrams, future‑state blueprints, integration documentation, deployment architecture views, resiliency models, operational procedures, migration runbooks, database architecture considerations, and governance artifacts.
• Provide implementation oversight and technical coordination support during cutover, stabilization, and hyper‑care phases to ensure alignment between application, infrastructure, middleware, database, and operational support teams.

Key Competencies

• Strong enterprise application architecture expertise across distributed systems, multi‑tier enterprise applications, service‑oriented architecture, and cloud‑enabled application ecosystems.
• Hands‑on experience with Microsoft .NET technologies, RESTful services, enterprise APIs, middleware integration platforms, and enterprise application modernization initiatives.
• Strong understanding of cloud‑native and cloud‑agnostic architecture principles including containerization, orchestration, scalability, resiliency, and platform portability considerations.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure services including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure networking concepts, cloud infrastructure integration, and hybrid cloud deployment models.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, container orchestration platforms, and enterprise containerized application deployment frameworks.
• Strong understanding of event‑driven architecture patterns, asynchronous processing models, Kafka‑based event streaming, messaging systems, enterprise integration frameworks, and middleware orchestration concepts.
• Experience with API‑led integration architecture, API gateway platforms, microservices communication patterns, interface management, and enterprise integration governance.
• Strong knowledge of MSSQL, PostgreSQL, database architecture principles, database integration patterns, operational data management, and enterprise reporting ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, release orchestration, deployment automation concepts, and operational transition frameworks.
• Knowledge of application resiliency models, disaster recovery concepts, failover mechanisms, high‑availability architecture, and operational continuity planning.
• Ability to support technical troubleshooting, architecture governance, deployment coordination, operational stabilization, database transition support, and migration execution support activities within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong stakeholder management, cross‑functional coordination, governance support, dependency management, and technical communication capabilities.
• Experience supporting enterprise transformation programs involving modernization, cloud enablement, operational optimization, infrastructure decoupling, database modernization, and platform standardization initiatives.