Pre-Sales Application Architect

Job Title: Pre-Sales Application Architect

Experience: 7-10 Years

Location: Bangalore

About Onix: Onix is a Google Cloud Premier Partner serving over 1,400 customers, including several of the worlds largest corporations, enabling them to effectively leverage Google Cloud Platform across industries and use cases. Onix specializes in Google Cloud Solutions such as Workload Migrations, Data & Analytics, Data infrastructure and Visualization, Infrastructure Services, Application Modernization, Collaboration & Productivity, and Location-based Services. Onix is a 12-time ‘Google Partner of the Year’ award winner and a Google Cloud Managed Services Partner.

Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled Pre-Sales Application Architect with strong expertise in modernizing traditional/legacy applications and driving cloud-native development initiatives. The ideal candidate will work closely with sales, delivery, and customer stakeholders to define scalable, innovative, and business-aligned technology solutions.

Primary Qualifications:

• 7–10 years of experience in application development, solution architecture, or application modernization
• Experience in technical pre-sales, including customer workshops, solutioning, proposals, architecture presentations, and RFP/RFI responses
• Strong experience in legacy application transformation, modernization, and cloud migration
• Strong expertise in system design, solution architecture, and architecture decision-making
• Experience in application assessment, rationalization, modernization strategy, and target-state architecture
• Experience in Application design including:
• Microservices architecture
• Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
• API-led development and integration
• Event-driven architecture and messaging
• Hands-on expertise in at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with cloud-native development frameworks, patterns, and services
• Strong understanding of security, scalability, performance, availability, resiliency, and observability
• Working knowledge of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management abilities

Core Responsibilities:

Application Architecture

• Partner with sales teams to understand customer requirements and translate them into compelling technical solutions
• Lead pre-sales engagements, including solution design, architecture proposals, and client presentations
• Assess existing legacy/traditional applications and recommend modernization strategies (re-platforming, re-hosting, refactoring, re-architecting)
• Design cloud-native architectures leveraging microservices, containers, and serverless technologies
• Create solution blueprints, effort estimations, and high-level implementation roadmaps
• Stay updated with latest trends in cloud platforms, DevOps, and application modernization

Presales Expertise

• Partner with the sales team to understand customer requirements and provide technical solutions.
• Prepare and deliver high-quality technical presentations, proposals, and RFP responses.
• Participate in customer meetings and workshops to showcase infrastructure solutions.
• Provide cost and effort estimations for proposed solutions
• Drive RFP/RFI responses, solution defense, and technical workshops
• Collaborate with delivery and engineering teams to ensure smooth transition from pre-sales to execution