Lead Enterprise Architect

You are a highly motivated and experienced Enterprise Architect with a strong focus on Product Engineering, Product Development, and Cloud Native Product Architecture. You will play a critical role in shaping the technical vision and architecture of our product portfolio, ensuring alignment with business strategy and long-term scalability. Collaborating with engineering leads, product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders, you will define and evolve the product architecture roadmap, driving innovation and delivering exceptional customer value. Your major responsibilities will include defining and championing the overall product architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap, considering scalability, performance, security, maintainability, and cost-effectiveness. Leading the design and evolution of key product architectures, providing guidance and direction to development teams on architectural best practices and patterns will be a key aspect of your role. You should have expertise in well-architected patterns across logical and deployment views of the architecture and the ability to apply them appropriately to shape the solution. Strong depth in cloud engineering and full-stack cloud solutions is required, including front-end, back-end, APIs, microservices, workflows, and automation. Researching, evaluating, and recommending appropriate technologies, platforms, and frameworks to support product development and innovation is another important responsibility. You will collaborate effectively with product managers, engineers, business stakeholders, and other architects to ensure alignment on architectural decisions. Establishing and enforcing architectural principles, standards, and guidelines across the product development organization is crucial. You should have a good understanding of AI-driven workflows and automation, as well as data architecture, insights, reporting, and solution architecture. Your role will also involve identifying and addressing technical debt within the product architecture, developing strategies for its mitigation, and mentoring and coaching development teams on architectural best practices. Staying abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and the competitive landscape is essential to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement. Creating and maintaining architectural documentation, including high-level designs, architectural diagrams, and API specifications, will be part of your responsibilities. You should have deep understanding of enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, and their application in large-scale product development, as well as proven ability to define and evolve product architecture roadmaps aligning with business strategy and long-term scalability goals. Extensive experience in building and managing scalable cloud platforms, cloud engineering, cloud-native application development, API management and integration, DevOps, data platforms, AI-enabled automation, and modern full-stack development skills will be required for this role. Additionally, you should be able to evaluate and select appropriate technologies, manage technical debt, lead and mentor engineering teams, and propose pragmatic solutions. With a minimum of 18+ years of experience and credible exposure to Cloud Engineering, Cloud Native Apps and Platforms, and Enterprise Architecture, you should also have a minimum of 10+ years of architecture experience with 1 major Cloud Platform, preferably Azure Cloud. An architecture certification with 1 major Cloud Platform, especially Azure Cloud, is highly desirable. Experience within the Creative Production and Creative Technology domain, and a high-level understanding of creative processes, is also highly desirable. Location: DGS India - Pune - Kharadi EON Free Zone Brand: Dentsu Creative Time Type: Full time Contract Type: Permanent,