Chief Architect

About the Company

We are hiring for a leading technology firm (Big 4) dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that empower businesses to thrive in the digital age. Our mission is to drive transformation through cutting-edge technology and a commitment to excellence. We foster a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and continuous learning.

About the Role

The Chief Architect – Advisory Digital is an individual contributor role responsible for defining and governing the architecture strategy and roadmap for our cloud-native platforms and products across multiple business units.

Responsibilities

• Architecture strategy and roadmap: Own target-state enterprise architecture for distributed, cloud-native platforms and products across multiple business units. Define and govern reference architectures, blueprints, and standards for multi-tenant SaaS, microservices, and event-driven systems.
• Platform engineering and IDP: Lead design and rollout of Internal Developer Platforms to standardise golden paths, improve developer experience, and accelerate delivery. Define platform SLAs/SLOs.
• Cloud architecture and vendor neutrality: Architect solutions across Azure, GCP and AWS. Define multi-cloud landing zones, tenancy models, and portability patterns.
• Data and AI platform architecture: Guide modern data architectures (lakehouse, streaming, governance) and AI/ML platforms for model training, deployment, and monitoring.
• Multi-tenant SaaS at scale: Design and operate secure, scalable, cost-efficient multi-tenant architectures including tenant isolation, entitlements, billing/quotas, and data protection.
• Security, identity, and compliance by design: Embed security and privacy controls into architecture.
• DevSecOps and engineering excellence: Drive CI/CD, GitOps, policy-as-code, and SRE practices; improve DORA metrics and engineering productivity.
• Integration, APIs, and service connectivity: Define API strategy (gateway management, versioning, monetization) and service connectivity (service mesh, mTLS, traffic management).

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering and architecture with significant time in senior/principal/chief architect roles.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native and distributed systems: microservices, event-driven architectures, CQRS, caching, resiliency patterns.
• Proven experience designing and operating multi-tenant SaaS platforms at enterprise scale.
• Strong hands-on experience on Azure.
• Security and identity: OAuth2/OIDC, SSO, SAML, RBAC/ABAC, secrets management, KMS, network policies, and zero trust principles.
• Container orchestration and connectivity: Kubernetes, Helm/Kustomize, service meshes (e.g., Istio/Linkerd), and API management (e.g., Apigee, Kong, Azure/API Gateway).
• DevSecOps and automation: CI/CD, GitOps (Argo CD/Flux), IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep), policy-as-code (OPA), and supply-chain security.
• Data and AI: familiarity with lakehouse platforms (e.g., Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake), event streaming (Kafka/Pulsar), and AI/ML platforms (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML); understanding of MLOps and responsible AI practices.
• Experience modernizing legacy systems at scale (e.g., monolith-to-microservices, application server migrations, language/runtime upgrades).
• Experience creating IP/accelerators that reduce delivery effort and standardize modernization.
• Certifications such as TOGAF, cloud provider certifications, and advanced DevSecOps/AI credentials.

Required Skills

• Cloud-native architecture
• Multi-tenant SaaS design
• Security and compliance integration
• DevSecOps practices
• Data architecture and AI/ML platforms

Preferred Skills

• Experience with lakehouse platforms
• Familiarity with event streaming technologies
• Advanced cloud provider certifications

Pay range and compensation package

Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications.