Senior Enterprise Architect

About Position:

The Senior Enterprise Architect will drive technology strategy, architecture governance, and AI-led delivery transformation across customer engagements. This is a customer-facing, hands-on role combining consulting advisory with technical execution architecting and delivering large-scale enterprise solutions while championing AI-augmented software engineering practices.

• Role: Senior Enterprise Architect
• Location: Bangalore & Pune
• Experience: 16+ Years
• Job Type: Full Time Employment

What You'll Do:

• Customer Advisory: Lead architecture discovery, assessments, and roadmap workshops with customer IT/business leaders
• Solution Architecture: Define end-to-end architecture for complex enterprise solutionsgreenfield, modernization, and platform plays
• AI-Led Delivery: Champion AI-augmented engineering practices; define estimation models, productivity frameworks, and tooling standards for AI-led projects
• Governance: Establish architecture review boards, design standards, and NFR frameworks across engagements
• Pre-Sales Support: Contribute to RFP responses, solution proposals, effort estimation, and customer presentations
• Thought Leadership: Build reusable assetsreference architectures, playbooks, accelerators; contribute to Tech COE knowledge base
• Mentorship: Guide and upskill solution architects and senior developers; conduct internal workshops

Expertise You'll Bring:

• Experience: 16+ years in enterprise IT; 5+ years in architecture roles with direct customer/client engagement. Onsite exposure as Architect (preferred). Python Hands on experience
• Delivery Track Record: Architected and delivered 3+ large-scale enterprise projects on Digital Transformation or Legacy Modernization (50+ team size). Should have worked as Lead Architect on projects.
• Consulting Exposure: Experience in client-facing role-discovery workshops, architecture reviews, RFP/proposal support, CXO presentations
• AI-Led Delivery: Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Amazon Q) in real project delivery; understanding of prompt engineering, agentic workflows, and AI-augmented SDLC
• Cloud & Platform: Deep expertise in at least one hyperscaler (Azure/AWS/GCP); cloud-native architecture patterns
• Architecture Breadth: Strong grasp across application, data, integration, and infrastructure architecture domains
• Frameworks (Good to have): Familiarity with EA frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman) and Well-Architected principles
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication and articulation skills. Ability to translate technical concepts for business stakeholders; workshop facilitation; mentoring. Thrive in Chaos. Guide Customers on Enterprise Architecture
• Enterprise architecture patterns: Microservices, event-driven, API-first, serverless
• Cloud platforms: Azure (preferred) or AWSIaC, containers, Kubernetes, serverless
• Integration: API gateways, messaging (Kafka, Service Bus), iPaaS
• Data architecture: Data lakes, warehousing, real-time analytics pipelines
• Security: Zero-trust, OAuth/OIDC, encryption, compliance frameworks
• DevOps & Platform Engineering: CI/CD, GitOps, observability, SRE practices
• AI/ML Integration: LLM orchestration (LangChain, Semantic Kernel), RAG patterns, vector databases, AI governance

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Culture focused on talent development with quarterly growth opportunities and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
• Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
• Annual health check-ups
• Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

Values-Driven, People-Centric & Inclusive Work Environment:

Persistent is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We invite applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, and regardless of gender or gender preference. We welcome diverse candidates from all backgrounds.

• We support hybrid work and flexible hours to fit diverse lifestyles.
• Our office is accessibility-friendly, with ergonomic setups and assistive technologies to support employees with physical disabilities.
• If you are a person with disabilities and have specific requirements, please inform us during the application process or at any time during your employment

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