Solution Architect

Ascendion; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascendion is seeking a highly experienced Architect with strong expertise in architecting solutions across applications, infrastructure, and cloud in Chennai, India. This role will involve collaboration with clients and delivery teams, focusing on defining and implementing solution architecture.

Responsibilities include leading solution design, understanding customer environments, defining technology solutions, and conducting architecture assessments. Candidates with 12+ years of experience in software engineering and strong client-facing communication skills are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture.
• Strong expertise in application and infrastructure architecture.
• Experience in Healthcare, Retail, BFSI sectors is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture and system design.
• Engage with clients to understand business requirements.
• Define technology solutions ensuring performance and scalability.

Skills

Application and Infrastructure Architecture

ITSM Knowledge

Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Microservices

APIs

Event-driven Architectures

AI Fluency

Stakeholder Management

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a highly experienced Architect with strong expertise in architecting solutions in applications, infrastructure and cloud. The role involves working closely with clients, delivery teams, and business stakeholders to define solution architecture, work closely towards implementation, conduct architecture assessments, drive digital transformation initiatives and support pre-sales engagements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture and system design for applications and infrastructure problems/improvements.
• Understand customer environments and landscape quickly to propose/refine solutions as required.
• Engage directly with clients to understand business requirements, standard operating procedures, environment, user and technology challenges.
• Define technology solutions ensuring production grade performance, scalability, security and cost effective / performance effective solutions.
• Integrate various layers including ticketing tool, observability tools, application and infrastructure components towards solutions.
• Define architecture standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure successful implementation of architectural solutions.
• Conduct architecture assessments and provide modernization recommendations.
• Design cloud-native and distributed systems leveraging AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Adapt equally well to 3 tier architecture based solutions.
• Support pre-sales activities including solutioning, effort estimation, proposal reviews, and technical presentations.

Required Skills

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture.
• Strong expertise in Application and Infrastructure Architecture.
• Strong skills in ITSM and deep knowledge on platform operations/production support.
• Hands on experience with architecting and solutioning for application and infrastructure use cases.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Deep understanding of microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, integration patterns, and modern application platforms.
• AI fluency with experience in implementing Agentic AI solutions, multi-agent architectures, MCP, tool orchestration, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
• Have a keen eye on architecting solutions towards modernizing legacy systems / specific system requirements and use cases.
• Strong stakeholder management and client-facing communication skills.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, workshops, and architecture reviews.
• Experience in Healthcare, Retail, BFSI, or Enterprise Digital Transformation programs is a plus.
• TOGAF or architecture certifications are a plus.
• Travel to client locations as required.
• Work from respective office locations as per policies.
• Work in different shifts based on customer location and project requirements.

Key Success Factors

• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work well with teams in various geographies.
• Work closely with development, testing teams, delivery leads and customer stakeholders towards end to end solution implementations.
• Ability to influence client stakeholders and engineering teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and consulting mindset.
• Ability to balance technical depth with business outcomes.
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and platform engineering concepts.