Solution Architect

Tata Consultancy Services; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Jersey City, NJ seeks a seasoned Solution Architect with 15+ years in IT and enterprise architecture. You will define end-to-end architecture, lead design reviews, and mentor teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions aligned with enterprise standards.

Responsibilities include creating architecture diagrams, data flows, deployment models, and roadmaps, while coordinating with cybersecurity, data, and operations teams to ensure reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 15–20 years of overall IT experience including substantial experience in solution or enterprise architecture.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise application architecture, distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture, cloud-native design, high availability, DR, scalability and fault tolerance.

Responsibilities

• Work with business and technology stakeholders to understand functional, non-functional, security, compliance, and operational requirements.
• Define end-to-end solution architecture aligned with enterprise standards and business objectives.
• Evaluate solution alternatives and document recommendations, trade-offs, dependencies, assumptions, risks and constraints.
• Create architecture diagrams, integration designs, data flows, deployment models, and technology roadmaps.
• Define application, integration, infrastructure, data, security, and operational architecture.
• Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, performance, availability, resilience, maintainability and security.
• Lead architecture and design review sessions with engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, and operations teams.
• Provide technical direction to development teams throughout design, implementation, testing, deployment and production support.
• Review technical designs and implementation approaches for alignment with the approved architecture.
• Identify architecture risks and technical debt and recommend mitigation or remediation actions.
• Establish reusable patterns, technology standards, and engineering guidelines.
• Support effort estimation, implementation planning, dependency management, and release-readiness activities.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and risk teams to incorporate required controls into the solution.
• Support proofs of concept and technology evaluations when required.
• Review vendor or third-party solutions for technical fit, security, integration, scalability, and operational supportability.
• Participate in production-readiness reviews and provide guidance for monitoring, incident management, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
• Communicate architecture decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor technical leads, developers, and other architects while promoting consistent engineering practices

Skills

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• 15-20 years of overall IT experience, including substantial experience in solution or enterprise architecture.
• Strong knowledge of:
  • Enterprise application architecture
  • Distributed systems and microservices
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Cloud-native application design
  • High availability and disaster recovery
  • Scalability, performance, resilience, and fault tolerance
• Ability to develop:
  • Solution architecture documents
  • High-level and low-level architecture diagrams
  • Integration and data-flow diagrams
  • Deployment architecture

Roles & Responsibilities

• Work with business and technology stakeholders to understand functional, non-functional, security, compliance, and operational requirements.
• Define end-to-end solution architecture aligned with enterprise standards and business objectives.
• Evaluate solution alternatives and document recommendations, trade-offs, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and constraints.
• Create architecture diagrams, integration designs, data flows, deployment models, and technology roadmaps.
• Define application, integration, infrastructure, data, security, and operational architecture.
• Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, performance, availability, resilience, maintainability, and security.
• Lead architecture and design review sessions with engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, and operations teams.
• Provide technical direction to development teams throughout design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Review technical designs and implementation approaches for alignment with the approved architecture.
• Identify architecture risks and technical debt and recommend mitigation or remediation actions.
• Establish reusable patterns, technology standards, and engineering guidelines.
• Support effort estimation, implementation planning, dependency management, and release-readiness activities.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and risk teams to incorporate required controls into the solution.
• Support proofs of concept and technology evaluations when required.
• Review vendor or third-party solutions for technical fit, security, integration, scalability, and operational supportability.
• Participate in production-readiness reviews and provide guidance for monitoring, incident management, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
• Communicate architecture decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor technical leads, developers, and other architects while promoting consistent engineering practices

Salary Range: $130,000 to $150, 000 per year

Location

Jersey City, NJ

Function

TECHNOLOGY

Role

Solution Architect

ID

433663

Skills

• Agile
• Salary Range
• $130,000 - $150,000

Desired Candidate Profile

Qualifications

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE