Senior Solution Architect

Ciklum; India; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Mental health support

Financial & legal consultations

Udemy access

Language courses

Certifications

Job summary

Ciklum in India seeks a Senior Solution Architect to join a full-time team. The role leads AI architecture across products, platforms, and shared enterprise capabilities, partnering with business units and engineering teams to define scalable, secure AI solution architectures.

You will shape standards, evaluate emerging AI technologies, mentor engineers, and guide architecture decisions across application, data, and platform concerns to avoid fragmentation.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles
• Significant experience designing and guiding enterprise-grade AI solutions in production environments
• Deep knowledge of modern AI architecture patterns, including LLM-based applications, retrieval systems, and orchestration
• Strong architecture background across distributed systems, APIs, data platforms, security, and cloud-native solutions
• Experience establishing architecture standards, reference architectures, and guardrails across multiple teams
• Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders without direct authority

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for strategic AI initiatives across products, platforms, and shared capabilities
• Partner with business units, product leaders, and engineering teams to shape scalable, secure AI solution architectures
• Define and evolve architecture standards, reference patterns, and guardrails for AI solutions and AI-enabled development
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and guide adoption
• Provide architectural leadership for capabilities, workflows, AI observability, and governance
• Ensure AI solutions align with security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, and maintainability
• Mentor technical leads and senior engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization
• Participate in architecture reviews and strategic investment decisions related to AI and platform modernization

Skills

LLM-based architectures

AI governance

Distributed systems

APIs

Communication to leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Solution Architect to join our team full-time in India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior Solution Architect, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture for strategic AI initiatives across products, platforms, and shared enterprise capabilities
• Partner with business units, product leaders, and engineering teams to shape scalable,secure, and practical AI solution architectures
• Define and evolve architecture standards, reference patterns, and guardrails for AI solutionsand AI-enabled software development
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, platforms, and patterns, and guide the organization onwhere and how to adopt them
• Provide architectural leadership for capabilities, agentic workflows, AI orchestration,evaluations, AI observability, and AI governance
• Ensure AI solutions align with enterprise requirements for security, privacy, compliance,resiliency, observability, and maintainability
• Help engineering teams leverage AI-powered PDLC capabilities across coding, testing,documentation, analysis, and delivery workflows
• Guide architecture decisions across application, data, integration, platform, and operationalconcerns to avoid fragmented or duplicative solutions
• Mentor technical leads and senior engineers and contribute to raising the technical bar acrossthe organization
• Participate in architecture reviews, technical strategy discussions, and investment decisionsrelated to AI and platform modernization

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalentpractical experience
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles
• Significant experience designing and guiding enterprise-grade AI solutions in productionenvironments
• Deep knowledge of modern AI architecture patterns, including LLM-based applications,retrieval systems, agentic workflows, prompt and tool orchestration, and evaluationapproaches
• Strong architecture background across distributed systems, APIs, integration, data platforms,security, and cloud-native solutions
• Experience establishing architecture standards, reference architectures, and technicalguardrails across multiple teams
• Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders without direct authority
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor communication fromengineering teams to executive leadership
• Demonstrated ability to balance innovation, speed, risk management, and long-termmaintainability
• Experience working in a large enterprise, platform-oriented environment
• Experience with AI governance, responsible AI, model risk, privacy, and security controls
• Familiarity with cloud AI platforms and services, vector search, AI gateways, observability, and production AI operations
• Experience helping engineering organizations adopt AI-powered development tools andpractices
• Experience mentoring architects or leading architecture communities of practice
• Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field

What’s in it for you?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
• Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

India is a strategic innovation hub for Ciklum, with growing teams in Chennai and Pune leading advancements in EdgeTech, AR/VR, IoT, and beyond. Join us to collaborate on game-changing solutions and take your career to the next level.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!