Candorwise

Solution Architect – Associate Manager

Category: Strategy consulting, Global Network

Experience:10-16 years
Location:Gurugram, Noida, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai

Your team

As a leading global professional services company, you are invited to join a vibrant team and explore a diverse range of opportunities in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. You will be a part of a collaborative environment that combines unmatched experience and specialized skills across 40+ industries. This leading enterprise, at the intersection of business and technology, is dedicated to helping clients enhance performance and create sustainable value for stakeholders.

Your job

  • You will define end-to-end solution architectures that align with business goals, enterprise standards, and long-term technology strategy.
  • Translate business and functional requirements into clear technical designs, including high-level and low-level design documents and architecture blueprints.
  • You will evaluate, recommend, and select technologies, frameworks, and platforms, including build-vs-buy assessments and cloud-provider decisions.
  • Design cloud-native, microservices, event-driven, and API-first architectures to support scalability, flexibility, maintainability, and long-term business needs.
  • You should define and govern non-functional requirements, including scalability, performance, availability, security, resilience, and cost optimization.
  • Lead architecture and design reviews, establish coding and design standards, and drive technical governance across development and engineering teams.
  • Partner with product managers, business stakeholders, security teams, and infrastructure teams to develop effective solutions and present architecture decisions and technical trade-offs to senior leadership and clients.
  • You will provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, helping resolve complex engineering challenges and ensuring successful solution delivery.
  • You will build proofs-of-concept and prototypes to validate architectural approaches, evaluate technology choices, and de-risk implementation and delivery.
  • You should embed security and compliance by design across the solution lifecycle, ensuring that architectural decisions align with enterprise security and regulatory requirements.
  • You will champion DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices to improve engineering efficiency, delivery speed, reliability, and solution quality.

Capabilities

  • You must have 10+ years of experience in software engineering, including proven experience in a solution, technical, or application architect capacity.
  • You should have a demonstrated track record of designing and delivering large-scale, distributed, production systems.
  • You must have deep, hands-on expertise with at least one major cloud platform, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • You should have a strong command of microservices, API design, and enterprise integration patterns.
  • You must have a solid engineering foundation with hands-on coding experience in one or more major programming languages, such as Java, .NET, Python, or Node.js.
  • You should have a strong understanding of application and data security, DevOps practices, and system integration.

Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.