Associate Solution Architect

Job Title

Associate Architect

Role Purpose

The Associate Architect is the junior-most architect role, responsible for providing technical ownership and architectural guidance for defined modules, components, or technical workstreams within a project.

The role is expected to work closely with Technical/Solution Architects and engineering teams to translate architectural direction into implementable technical solutions, identify technical risks, ensure engineering quality, and contribute to successful technical delivery.

The Associate Architect is expected to progressively develop from a technology-focused contributor into an independent technical owner.

Key Responsibilities

Solution & Architecture

• Understand functional and non-functional requirements for assigned modules/workstreams.
• Translate requirements into appropriate technical solutions within the defined architecture.
• Design components, services, APIs, integrations, data flows, and technical interfaces.
• Contribute to solution and architecture discussions.
• Ensure implementation follows defined architecture, standards, and design principles.
• Identify architectural gaps, dependencies, constraints, and technical risks within the assigned scope.
• Evaluate technology options and provide recommendations to senior architects.

Technical Delivery

• Take technical ownership of assigned modules/workstreams from design through implementation.
• Support technical planning, estimation, sequencing, and dependency identification.
• Work closely with developers and QA engineers during implementation.
• Provide technical guidance and resolve technical issues within the assigned scope.
• Ensure technical decisions are documented and communicated to the relevant team members.
• Support technical readiness and release activities.

Technical Quality

• Ensure code and implementation align with architectural and engineering standards.
• Promote clean code, maintainability, scalability, security, and performance.
• Support technical reviews, code reviews, and quality assessments.
• Identify technical debt and recommend appropriate remediation.

Technical Risk

• Proactively identify technical risks and dependencies.
• Assess potential impact of technical risks on delivery.
• Propose mitigation approaches and escalate significant risks to the Technical/Solution Architect.
• Participate in root-cause analysis and resolution of technical issues.

Technology & Engineering

• Maintain strong hands-on understanding of relevant technologies.
• Guide developers on appropriate technical implementation approaches.
• Evaluate new technologies and frameworks relevant to the project.
• Encourage automation and engineering best practices.

AI Adoption & Governance

• Use approved AI tools to improve development, documentation, testing, analysis, and engineering productivity.
• Understand responsible AI practices and project-specific AI governance requirements.
• Ensure AI-generated code or technical outputs are reviewed and validated before adoption.
• Identify opportunities where AI can improve the assigned technical workstream.

Presales Solutioning

• Support senior architects in technical solutioning activities.
• Contribute technical inputs to proposals, estimations, solution options, and feasibility assessments.
• Participate in technical discussions when required.

Technical Competencies

• Strong programming fundamentals and hands-on development experience.
• Good understanding of software architecture and design principles.
• Knowledge of object-oriented design, design patterns, APIs, integration, databases, and distributed systems.
• Understanding of cloud platforms and modern application architecture.
• Understanding security, performance, scalability, and maintainability considerations.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with automated testing and quality engineering practices.
• Awareness of AI-assisted software development and modern AI engineering tools.
• Good understanding of Agile software development practices.

Behavioral Competencies

• Strong problem-solving ability.
• Analytical and structured thinking.
• Willingness to take ownership.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly.
• Collaboration with developers, QA, DevOps, and senior architects.
• Curiosity and continuous learning mindset.
• Ability to challenge assumptions constructively.
• Ability to work independently within defined boundaries.

Experience & Qualification

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Typically, 5–8 years of relevant software engineering experience, with demonstrated exposure to architecture/design responsibilities.
• Strong hands-on technical background.
• Experience working on enterprise or complex software applications is preferred.

Interested candidates please share your updated resume on [email removed].

Thanks & Regards,

Neelam Fernandes

HR Team - Mumbai