SENIOR ARCHITECT - Architecture and Technology Management

Role overview

SENIOR ARCHITECT - Architecture and Technology Management at Happiest Minds

Customer & Technical Leadership Engage with customer stakeholders to understand product lines, priorities, challenges, and roadmap direction.

Responsibilities

• Support solutioning for new requirements, enhancements, and transformation opportunities.
• Act as a trusted advisor for architecture, modernization, reliability, AI adoption, and platform evolution.
• Drive value adds that improve customer outcomes, engineering efficiency, and platform maturity.
• Incident & Service Governance Provide leadership oversight for major incidents, recurring production issues, and service risks.
• Guide triage, root cause direction, corrective actions, and preventive improvements.
• Ensure incident learnings are converted into structural and operational improvements.
• Delivery Oversight Review technical delivery across projects, support, maintenance, and enhancements within the account.
• Ensure architecture, design, implementation, quality, and supportability are aligned with engineering standards.
• Be part of new and existing account proposals, estimations, solution approach, and technical differentiators.
• Identify delivery risks early and define mitigation plans across architecture, quality, dependencies, and operations.
• Team & Capability Development Support talent development of architects, leads, engineers, QA, DevOps, and support teams through mentoring and technical guidance.
• Build an AI-ready team by promoting responsible adoption of AI tools, copilots, code agents, and automation-led practices.
• Encourage reusable patterns, knowledge sharing, engineering discipline, and continuous improvement.
• R&D & Architecture Own the account R&D radar by tracking relevant technologies, practices, and innovation opportunities.
• Convert R&D insights into practical value adds, pilots, accelerators, and modernization recommendations.
• Define and uphold architecture principles, standards, patterns, and guardrails for the account.
• Modern engineering, AI-assisted delivery, architecture thinking, and operational excellence across internal and customer forums.
• Key Outcomes Stronger customer trust and solution relevance Improved delivery quality, architecture consistency, and support readiness Better incident prevention and risk mitigation Stronger proposals and account growth support Higher team capability and AI readiness Increased innovation conversion into measurable value Skills & Experience Required Strong enterprise architecture and solutioning background Good understanding of modernization, support models, reliability, security, and observability Experienced in AI-assisted engineering and innovation-driven delivery models Strong communication, risk management, and stakeholder management skills

Employment details

• Location: Madurai

Additional role details

• Role: Enterprise Architect Role Summary Lead the overall technology charter for a given account by connecting customer needs, solutioning (thought leadership), delivery governance, incident management, team capability development, AI readiness, and innovation-led value creation.
• Act as the bridge between customer expectations, architecture decisions, engineering execution, and future-focused transformation.