Job Description
Role : Chief Architect
Cloud Migration and Modernization (Application, Infrastructure & GenAI)
Required Technical Skill Set
Application Modernization, Cloud Migration Architecture design, AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloud Solution Architect, DevOps, AI, Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, Microservices, API Management, Integration, IaC (Terraform/Bicep/CloudFormation), CI/CD, Observability (logging/metrics/tracing), Networking & Security (Landing Zones, IAM, Zero Trust), SRE practices, FinOps, GenAI (LLMs, RAG, Vector DBs, Prompt Engineering), MLOps/LLMOps, Responsible AI & Governance
Location : Kolkata , Bhubaneshwar , Bangalore , Hyderabad , Mumbai , Chennai , Delhi NCR , Pune
Experience : 16 - 20 year
Key Responsibilities
- Define cloud migration & modernization strategy, principles, standards, and reference architectures.
- Lead discovery, application rationalization (6R), dependency mapping, and migration wave planning; define cutover and hypercare approach.
- Establish target-state architecture across application, data, integration, identity, network, and security; set NFRs (availability, scalability, DR, performance, observability).
- Architect cloud foundations/landing zones with Platform & Security: network topology, IAM, encryption/KMS, shared services, policy-as-code.
- Define modernization patterns: containers/Kubernetes, microservices, API-first, event-driven, and domain-oriented design.
- Drive DevSecOps automation (CI/CD, IaC) and delivery quality gates; review HLD/LLD, IaC, and critical designs.
- Own architecture governance: design reviews, decision records (ADRs), exception/technical debt management.
- Partner with Delivery/PM for multi-quarter roadmap, estimates/budget inputs, dependency and RAID management, and executive stakeholder governance.
- Enable GenAI solutioning where relevant: define patterns (RAG/agents), security/privacy guardrails, evaluation, and LLMOps/MLOps for production rollout.
- Guide vendor/tool selection; drive FinOps practices (tagging, showback/chargeback, optimization).
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & Consulting
Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: Software Development
Role: Software Development - Other
Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: Tata Consultancy
Location(s): Kolkata
Keyskills:
Cloud Solution Architect
Application Modernization
DevOps
Cloud Migration Architecture design
Platform Engineering
API Management
Azure
Integration
AI
FinOps
Responsible AI & Governance
Vector DBs
Microservices
IAM
GCP
AWS
Kubernetes