Senior Enterprise Architect

Virtusa; New Jersey; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Virtusa Corporation seeks a visionary Enterprise Architect to lead a multi-year technical transformation for a strategic client in New Jersey. You will pivot the current application landscape toward an AI-first delivery model, balancing deep technical mastery with executive presence to shape a future-state roadmap.

You will guide multistack modernization, ensure security and interoperability, and mentor senior engineers while aligning technology choices with business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering and enterprise-scale architecture.
• Proven track record leading large-scale technical transformations (e.g., Monolith to Microservices, On-prem to Cloud, AI integration).
• Deep understanding of modern architectures across ecosystems (AWS, distributed systems, API-first).
• Experience with AI/ML integration and scalable infrastructure for AI at scale.
• Location: Based in or willing to commute to New Jersey.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute AI-first strategy and roadmap for enterprise transformation.
• Modernize legacy portfolios for scalability, security, and interoperability across stacks (ERP—SAP, AS400, Salesforce, Java/.NET).
• Own end-to-end architectural blueprints balancing delivery with tech debt reduction.
• Establish AI-first standards, ensuring data privacy and robust MLOps practices.
• Engage C-suite stakeholders, translating technical shifts into business value.

Skills

AI/ML Fluency

Leadership

Architectural governance

Stakeholder influence

Tools

AWS

Cloud Native

API-First design

MLOps

Vector databases

Job description

Company Background

Virtusa Corporation is a leading worldwide provider of digital transformation services that accelerates business outcomes for Global 2000 businesses in banking and financial services, insurance, healthcare/life sciences, and telecommunications, technology, and media.

With over 27,000 people and over 50 offices worldwide, we harness our deep design and engineering heritage to help global organizations tackle their toughest technology challenges. We help our clients identify strengths, uncover opportunities, and accelerate their path to digital transformation using our Digital Transformation Studios (DTS).

We blend unique perspectives and proven expertise across consulting, design, and engineering disciplines. We challenge convention, and one another, to create compelling experiences that delight users and transform business. We have a passion for trying new ideas. And a rapid process to bring them to life. Whether it's the digital enterprise, mobile wallet, the IoT or virtual reality, we’re investing, experimenting, tinkering and hardening the technology that sets the pace in an ever-changing world. Through a proven platforming methodology, domain expertise and technology innovation, we deliver growth through differentiated solutions.

We bring best in class digital engineering services to every engagement, with deep expertise in digital strategy and design; customer experience; analytics; mobile; cognitive/AI; full stack engineering, microservices, IoT; and cloud services.

For more information, please visit http://www.virtusa.com/

Role Overview

We are seeking a visionary Enterprise Architect to lead a multi-year technical transformation for a strategic client. You will be the primary architect responsible for pivoting the current application landscape toward an AI-first delivery model. This is a high-visibility role requiring a blend of deep technical mastery across diverse stacks and the executive presence to define a future-state roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

• AI-First Strategy: Define and execute the roadmap for integrating Generative AI and Machine Learning into the core application lifecycle and end-user products.
• Technical Transformation: Lead the modernization of legacy portfolios, ensuring scalability, security, and interoperability across multiple tech stacks (ERP- SAP, AS400, Salesforce, Martech, Java/.NET, Cloud Native, Infra and Security, AI Ops).
• Solution Roadmap: Own the end-to-end architectural blueprints, balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term technical debt reduction.
• Governance & Standards: Establish "AI-First" architectural standards, ensuring ethical AI use, data privacy, and robust MLOps practices.
• Stakeholder Influence: Act as a trusted advisor to C-suite stakeholders, translating complex technical shifts into tangible business value.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering and enterprise-scale architecture.
• Proven Track Record: Experience leading large-scale technical transformations (e.g., Monolith to Microservices, On-prem to Cloud, or AI integration in PDLC).
• Multi-Stack Proficiency: Deep understanding of modern architectural patterns across different ecosystems (AWS, Distributed Systems, API-First design).
• AI/ML Fluency: Practical experience with LLM integration, vector databases, and the infrastructure required to support AI at scale.
• Location: Based in or willing to commute to New Jersey.

Preferred Attributes

• Exceptional ability to mentor senior principal engineers and lead through influence.
• Strong background in Publishing and Learning domain is a plus

Why this role is different

Unlike traditional EA roles that focus on maintenance, this position is focused on disruption. You won't just be managing a stack; you will be defining how AI changes the way the customer builds, deploys, and scales software.