Lead Architect

Role overview

Lead Architect at Orange Business

Architecture Strategy & Leadership: Define and drive the end-to-end architectural roadmap for digital integration, application modernization, and cloud-native adoption.

In this role, you will be a strategic leader responsible for designing and delivering complex, large-scale integration, cloud-native environments.

Responsibilities

• You will drive the architectural vision for our clients, ensuring high-performance, secure, and cost-optimized digital transformations.
• Cloud & Application Modernization: Lead the migration of monolithic legacy applications to microservices-based, containerised (Docker/Kubernetes) architectures on major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• AI / ML Solution Engineering: Design and implement AI-based solutions, including Generative AI patterns (RAG, agent workflows) vector databases, and prompt engineering and enhance business processes.
• Design the end-to-end ML lifecycle (MLOps), covering data ingestion, model training, deployment, and automated retraining workflows.
• Build AI-enabled applications using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, and prompt engineering.
• FinOps & Cost Governance: Establish and oversee FinOps frameworks to optimize cloud spend, ensuring that architectural decisions align with financial efficiency and business value.
• Application & SaaS Integration: Design of robust API-led and event-driven integration frameworks using tools like MuleSoft, Apigee, Tibco or Kafka.
• SaaS integration strategies for major platforms (Salesforce, Workday, SAP, ServiceNow) using iPaaS and Unified APIs.
• Enforce best practices for multi-tenant SaaS architecture, including OAuth 2.0 and secure identity management.
• Stakeholder Management: Serve as a trusted advisor to C-suite executives, translating complex technical requirements into strategic business outcomes.
• Mentorship & Governance: Establish architectural standards and mentor a high-performing team of architects and engineers.

Required qualifications

• Minimum 15+ years in IT, with at least 8 years in a Lead/Principal Architect role focused on Digital Integration and Cloud.
• Cloud Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with Cloud Architecture (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS) and multi-cloud strategies.
• Modernization Depth: Proven track record in Application Modernization, including refactoring legacy systems into microservices and serverless architectures.
• AI/ML Skills: Practical experience in delivering production-grade AI-enabled solutions, with knowledge of LLMs, vector databases, and AI-native data integration.
• FinOps Proficiency: Strong understanding of FinOps principles, including cost modeling, forecasting, and resource optimization.
• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related Engineering field.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional / Google Professional Cloud Architect / Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• FinOps Certified Practitioner (FCP) or FinOps Certified Architect.
• OGAF 9.2/10 Certification.
• Databricks Certified Solutions Architect, Google Professional Data Engineer, or AWS Certified Machine Learning.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or SAFe Agilist (Leading SAFe).
• You bring a can-do attitude, tackle challenges head-on and challenge the status quo with new and innovative ideas.
• Global Opportunities: Work in multi-national teams with opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and customers from all over the world.
• Flexible Work Environment: Flexible working hours and possibility to combine work from office and home (hybrid ways of working).
• Professional Development: training programs and upskilling/re-skilling opportunities.
• Career Growth: Internal growth and mobility opportunities within Orange.
• Caring and Daring Culture: Health and well-being programs and benefits, diversity & inclusion initiatives, CSR and employee connect events.
• Reward Programs: Employee Referral Program, Change Maker Awards.
• At Orange, only your skills matter.
• Regardless of your age, gender, background, origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, or appearance, we actively encourage diversity within our teams, as it is a collective strength and a driver of innovation.
• Orange is a disability-inclusive employer: please feel free to let us know about any specific needs you may have.

Employment details

• Location: NAVI MUMBAI [INDIA], MUMBAI [INDIA]

About the employer

• Join us at Orange Business!

Additional role details

• Publication date : Sep 01, 2026, 12:00AM.
• We are a network and digital integrator that understands the entire value chain of the digital world, freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that shape their business.
• Every day, you will collaborate with a team dedicated to providing consistent, sustainable global solutions, no matter where our customers operate.
• With over 30,000 employees across Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, we offer a dynamic environment to develop and perfect your skills in a field filled with exciting challenges and opportunities.
• We are looking for a visionary Lead Architect with over 15 years of experience to join our Integration delivery team.