Software Architect II

UST; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

UST is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead assessment, architecture design, and migration planning for enterprise cloud transformations. You will drive modernization, define strategies and provide technical leadership across architecture, cloud migration, and AI-assisted engineering practices.

Responsibilities include defining roadmaps, governance, and engagement with stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable solutions using AWS and on-prem/ cloud migrations.

Qualifications

• Enterprise Architecture and technical leadership experience.
• Expertise in Java and Spring; cloud migration experience.
• Experience with AWS and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Define solution architecture, modernization approach and technical roadmap.
• Provide architecture governance across modernization PODs and ensure security and scalability.
• Lead technical assessment, reverse engineering of legacy apps and migration strategies.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud-native Architecture

Serverless

Technical Leadership

Java 8/11/17/21

Spring Framework

REST APIs

AWS

CI/CD

DevOps

AI-assisted Engineering

Tools

Docker

Git/GitHub

Maven/Ant

Terraform

Job description

Role Description

Role: Senior Solution Architect Experience: 15–20 Years Role Overview: We are looking for an experienced Senior Solution Architect to lead the assessment, architecture design, and migration planning for enterprise cloud transformation initiatives. The role is responsible for evaluating existing infrastructure and applications, defining migration strategies and providing technical leadership across architecture, application modernization, cloud migration, delivery governance and engineering best practices. The Senior Solution Architect will work closely with customer stakeholders, onsite SMEs, architects and development teams to define modernization strategies, resolve technical challenges and ensure successful delivery using Agile and AI-assisted engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities

1. Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership Define solution architecture, modernization approach and technical roadmap Provide architecture governance across multiple modernization PODs Review technical designs and implementation approaches prepared by POD teams Ensure consistency, scalability, maintainability & security across modernization initiatives
2. Legacy Modernization Strategy Lead technical assessment and reverse engineering of legacy enterprise applications Define Application, framework, database and infrastructure modernization strategies Identify modernization patterns, reusable approaches and migration accelerators Review technical risks, dependencies and mitigation plans Drive cloud migration readiness and modernization best practices
3. Technical Governance Review architecture, code quality and technical deliverables across PODs Support technical estimations, planning and delivery governance Resolve complex technical issues and architectural challenges Ensure adherence to engineering standards and customer requirements
4. Customer & Stakeholder Management Excellent customer-facing communication and presentation skills Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams across infrastructure, application, Testing and DevOps domains Act as the primary technical interface between customer, onsite and offshore teams Participate in architecture reviews, technical workshops and solution discussions Present architecture, modernization strategy, technical findings and recommendations
5. Bilingual Skills English communication required; Japanese language is must Experience working with Japanese customers and Global Delivery Models
6. Delivery Excellence Guide POD teams during design, development, testing and deployment Review modernization progress and technical milestones Promote engineering best practices, AI-assisted engineering and continuous improvement Mentor Application Architects and Lead Developers

Required Skills (Must Have)

Enterprise Architecture & Technical Leadership Enterprise Solution Architecture, Cloud-native Architecture and Serverless solutions Technical Leadership across multiple development teams Legacy Application Assessment, Reverse Engineering & Modernization Strategy Estimation, Technical Planning & Delivery Management Core Java & Enterprise Development Core Java (8/11/17/21) Spring Framework, Spring Boot REST APIs & Enterprise Integration HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, React Legacy Modernization Java Version Upgrades (Java 8 → Java 17/21), Spring Framework Version Upgrades Database Migration & Upgrade (Oracle/PostgreSQL) Legacy Application Refactoring & Modernization Migration from On-Premises Infrastructure to AWS Build, Deployment & Middleware Apache Tomcat (8.x/9.x/10.x) Maven & Ant Git / GitHub Docker & Containerization Load Balancing, Scalability & Performance Optimization Databases Oracle, PostgreSQL SQL & Query Optimization Cloud & DevOps AWS Architecture, Assessment & Migration AWS Services (EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, RDS, S3, Step Functions) CI/CD & DevOps Practices Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) AI-assisted Engineering: Experience using Claude, GitHub Copilot and similar AI tools for architecture, reverse engineering, code modernization, documentation, technical analysis and engineering productivity

Good to Have Skills

Legacy Java Frameworks (Apache Wicket / Struts) Workflow Management system Cloud Databases (Amazon RDS / Aurora) or NoSQL Databases (MongoDB / DynamoDB) Well Architected Framework AWS Transform, Open Rewrite and AI-assisted modernization tools

Skills

Java, Spring Boot, Technical Leadership, Cloud Infrastructure