Solution Architect Software, Hardware, Cloud & Integration

Aarvi Encon; Navi Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Aarvi Encon is seeking a Solution Architect to design end-to-end architectures spanning software, hardware, and cloud services in Navi Mumbai. The role requires translating business needs into scalable, secure tech solutions for on-prem, edge, and cloud deployments.

You will define APIs, data flows, and integration strategies while collaborating with software and hardware teams to ensure reliable, compliant systems. A senior candidate with cloud and IoT exposure will thrive.

Qualifications

• 10+ years overall in software/systems engineering.
• 5+ years in solution or systems architecture.
• 4+ years designing on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Hands-on across on-premises, hybrid, and edge deployments.
• Exposure to hardware/embedded, IoT, sensors, and gateway integration.
• Proven experience defining APIs, data flows, and enterprise integration.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solution architectures across software, hardware, and cloud services.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure technical solutions.
• Evaluate trade-offs among on-premises, edge, hybrid, and cloud models.
• Define system architecture, APIs, data flows, and integration strategies.
• Collaborate with software and hardware teams on patterns, standards, and roadmaps.
• Ensure security, scalability, performance, availability, and compliance.
• Guide capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

Skills

Solution architecture

Microservices

API-first

Distributed systems

High availability

Cloud deployment

Kubernetes

IaC

Security by design

Documentation

Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's preferred

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Solution Architect Software, Hardware, Cloud & Integration

Navi Mumbai | Full-time | 10+ years | Software, Hardware, Cloud & Systems Integration

ROLE SUMMARY

Design end-to-end solution architectures spanning software applications, hardware components, networking infrastructure, and cloud services — translating business and customer requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions across on-premises, edge, hybrid, and cloud environments.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design comprehensive solution architectures incorporating software applications, hardware components, networking infrastructure, and cloud services.
• Translate business and customer requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Evaluate trade-offs among on-premises, edge, hybrid, and cloud deployment models.
• Define system architecture, component interactions, APIs, data flows, and integration strategies.
• Work with software engineering teams to establish architecture patterns, development standards, and technology roadmaps.
• Collaborate with hardware teams to ensure compatibility between embedded systems, IoT devices, sensors, gateways, and enterprise applications.
• Design cloud-native and hybrid-cloud architectures using modern cloud services.
• Develop architecture documentation including solution diagrams, interface specifications, deployment architectures, and technical design documents.
• Ensure solutions meet security, scalability, performance, availability, and compliance requirements.
• Guide infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
• Review technical designs and provide architectural governance throughout the project lifecycle.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend innovations that improve business outcomes.

SCALE & PLATFORM CONTEXT

• 500K+ active learners and 100K+ daily active users.
• Large assessments, high concurrency, real-time learning, and AI-powered interactions.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• 10+ years overall in software / systems engineering.
• 5+ years in solution or systems architecture.
• 4+ years designing on cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP).
• Hands-on across on-premises, hybrid, and edge deployments.
• Exposure to hardware / embedded, IoT, sensors, and gateway integration.
• Proven experience defining APIs, data flows, and enterprise integration.

MUST-HAVE SKILLS

• Architecture: Solution/systems architecture, microservices, API-first, distributed and high-availability systems, integration patterns.
• Cloud/Deployment: AWS (or Azure/GCP), cloud-native and hybrid-cloud design, containers/Kubernetes, IaC, on-prem/edge trade-offs.
• Hardware/IoT: Embedded systems, IoT devices, sensors, gateways, and their integration with enterprise applications.
• Networking/Infra: Networking infrastructure, infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, disaster recovery, business continuity.
• Security/Quality: Security, scalability, performance, availability, and compliance by design.
• Documentation: Solution diagrams, interface specifications, deployment architectures, technical design documents.
• Governance: Architecture reviews, design governance, development standards, technology roadmaps.

PREFERRED

• EdTech, LMS, ERP, assessments, or large-scale SaaS platforms.
• IoT / edge platforms, hybrid deployments, and AI/LLM-enabled solutions.
• AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, TOGAF, or equivalent architecture certifications.
• Bachelor's required; Master's preferred.

FIRST 12 MONTHS

• Establish solution architecture standards, patterns, and documentation practices.
• Deliver reference architectures spanning software, hardware, and cloud.
• Strengthen integration between enterprise applications and IoT / edge / hardware components.
• Improve scalability, reliability, security, and deployment quality across solutions.