Ciklum
is looking for a
Senior Solution Architect
to join our team full-time in India.
We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.
As a Senior Solution Architect, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.
- Lead architecture for strategic AI initiatives across products, platforms, and shared enterprise capabilities
- Partner with business units, product leaders, and engineering teams to shape scalable,secure, and practical AI solution architectures
- Define and evolve architecture standards, reference patterns, and guardrails for AI solutionsand AI-enabled software development
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies, platforms, and patterns, and guide the organization and how to adopt them
- Provide architectural leadership for capabilities, agentic workflows, AI orchestration,evaluations, AI observability, and AI governance
- Ensure AI solutions align with enterprise requirements for security, privacy, compliance,resiliency, observability, and maintainability
- Help engineering teams leverage AI-powered PDLC capabilities across coding, testing,documentation, analysis, and delivery workflows
- Guide architecture decisions across application, data, integration, platform, and operationalconcerns to avoid fragmented or duplicative solutions
- Mentor technical leads and senior engineers and contribute to raising the technical bar acrossthe organization
- Participate in architecture reviews, technical strategy discussions, and investment decisionsrelated to AI and platform modernization
- Bachelor’s or masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalentpractical experience
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles
- Significant experience designing and guiding enterprise-grade AI solutions in productionenvironments
- Deep knowledge of modern AI architecture patterns, including LLM-based applications,retrieval systems, agentic workflows, prompt and tool orchestration, and evaluationapproaches
- Strong architecture background across distributed systems, APIs, integration, data platforms,security, and cloud-native solutions
- Experience establishing architecture standards, reference architectures, and technicalguardrails across multiple teams
- Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders without direct authority
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor communication fromengineering teams to executive leadership
- Demonstrated ability to balance innovation, speed, risk management, and long-termmaintainability
- Experience working in a large enterprise, platform-oriented environment
- Experience with AI governance, responsible AI, model risk, privacy, and security controls
- Familiarity with cloud AI platforms and services, vector search, AI gateways, observability, and production AI operations
- Experience helping engineering organizations adopt AI-powered development tools andpractices
- Experience defining reusable architecture patterns for shared enterprise AI capabilities
- Experience mentoring architects or leading architecture communities of practice
- Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field
What’s in it for you?
- Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
- Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
- Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
- Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
- Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations
At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a Team culture that values collaboration and progress.
India is a strategic innovation hub for Ciklum, with growing teams in Chennai and Pune leading advancements in EdgeTech, AR/VR, IoT, and beyond. Join us to collaborate on game-changing solutions and take your career to the next level.
Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!
Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.
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