Senior Solutions Architect – Hybrid

Jobtailor; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Senior AI Architect to design enterprise‑grade AI architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency across platforms. You will lead the India pod, coordinate with the Australia‑based AI team, and drive architectural governance from PoC to production.

The role requires 10+ years designing AI solutions, deep cloud expertise (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud), and strong stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated minimum of 10+ years’ experience designing and implementing AI solutions at an enterprise level.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise‑grade architecture solutions for AI products that address scalability, reliability, cost optimisation, and integration with existing platforms and systems.
• Own solution design across multiple technology domains, ensuring architectural coherence and technical integrity.
• Define data architectural patterns and standards that can be reused across multiple AI products or initiatives.
• Guide teams from proof‑of‑concept through to production, ensuring designs mature appropriately to meet operational, performance, and supportability requirements.
• Proactively identify architectural risks or limitations and recommend alternative approaches or trade‑offs.
• Establish a clear point of accountability across solution design and delivery, ensuring alignment between architecture, implementation, and outcomes.
• Provide day‑to‑day leadership for the India pod including work planning, iteration execution, prioritisation, and delivery tracking in collaboration with the Australia‑based AI team and stakeholders.
• Ensure quality and delivery standards are met through effective engineering practices (definition of done, code reviews, testing strategy, release readiness) and by removing blockers.
• Support recruitment activities for the India pod as required and ensure smooth onboarding with clear ways of working aligned to Kaplan Australia delivery expectations.
• Design AI solutions using security‑by‑design principles incorporating responsible and ethical AI considerations into solution designs.
• Ensure AI architectures comply with enterprise security policies, data governance standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Create and maintain clear, structured architectural documentation, including system designs, data flows, integration patterns, and non‑functional requirements.
• Facilitate architecture and solution discussions across cross‑functional teams, including product, engineering, and operations.

Skills

AI architecture

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Communication

Workload prioritisation

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Lucid

Microsoft 365

Job description

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise‑grade architecture solutions for AI products that address scalability, reliability, cost optimisation, and integration with existing platforms and systems.
• Own solution design across multiple technology domains, ensuring architectural coherence and technical integrity.
• Define data architectural patterns and standards that can be reused across multiple AI products or initiatives.
• Guide teams from proof‑of‑concept through to production, ensuring designs mature appropriately to meet operational, performance, and supportability requirements.
• Proactively identify architectural risks or limitations and recommend alternative approaches or trade‑offs.
• Establish a clear point of accountability across solution design and delivery, ensuring alignment between architecture, implementation, and outcomes.
• Provide day‑to‑day leadership for the India pod including work planning, iteration execution, prioritisation, and delivery tracking in collaboration with the Australia‑based AI team and stakeholders.
• Ensure quality and delivery standards are met through effective engineering practices (definition of done, code reviews, testing strategy, release readiness) and by removing blockers.
• Support recruitment activities for the India pod as required and ensure smooth onboarding with clear ways of working aligned to Kaplan Australia delivery expectations.
• Design AI solutions using security‑by‑design principles incorporating responsible and ethical AI considerations into solution designs.
• Ensure AI architectures comply with enterprise security policies, data governance standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Create and maintain clear, structured architectural documentation, including system designs, data flows, integration patterns, and non‑functional requirements.
• Facilitate architecture and solution discussions across cross‑functional teams, including product, engineering, and operations.

Requirements

• Demonstrated minimum of 10+ years’ experience designing and implementing AI solutions at an enterprise level.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) and software architecture principles.
• Proven cloud architecture experience for end‑to‑end delivery, including a modern stack across data, integration, and application layers (e.g., container platforms, CI/CD, data platforms/warehouses, API integration, and monitoring/observability).
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and the ability to think strategically.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to successfully manage multiple tasks and prioritise workload.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Lucid and Microsoft 365 tools.
• Experience across Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery models.

Core Competencies

Expertise in designing enterprise‑grade AI architecture solutions with a focus on scalability, reliability, and integration, while ensuring compliance with security policies and data governance standards. Proven leadership in guiding cross‑functional teams through the solution design and delivery process, emphasizing effective engineering practices and stakeholder collaboration.

Soft Skills

• Problem‑Solving
• Strategic Thinking
• Effective Communication
• Workload Prioritisation
• Leadership

Tools & Technologies

• Jira
• Confluence
• Lucid
• Microsoft 365