An Amazing Career Opportunity for Solution Architect – Java
Location: Chennai, India (Hybrid)
Job ID: 50320
Profile Summary:
Solution Architect with experience in building enterprise grade web applications. Candidates should be familiar with “The Twelve Factor App”, continuous delivery concepts and “Cloud Native Applications”.
About HID Global
HID Global powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places and things. We make it possible for people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely. Our trusted identity solutions give people secure and convenient access to physical and digital places and connect things that can be accurately identified, verified and tracked digitally. Millions of people around the world use HID products and services to navigate their everyday lives, and over 2 billion things are connected through HID. We work with governments, educational institutions, hospitals, financial institutions, industrial businesses, and some of the most innovative companies on the planet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HID Global has over 4500 employees worldwide and operates international offices that support more than 100 countries. HID Global® is an ASSA ABLOY Group brand. HID Global has is the trusted source for secure identity solutions for millions of customers and users around the world. In India, we have two Engineering Centre (Bangalore and Chennai). Global Engineering Team is based in Chennai and one of the Business Unit Engineering team is based in Bangalore. Check us out: www.hidglobal.com and https://youtu.be/23km5H4K9Eo
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/hidglobal/mycompany/
Are You Ready to Join the Team?
Our company is committed to finding the best and the brightest talent to help us reach the top. If you are a dynamic, highly skilled, experienced Cloud engineer and technology enthusiast, and you enjoy working in a rapid pace within a rapidly growing business environment, then you will want to consider this position. If you excel at communication, collaboration, and unrelenting innovation, we want to talk to you. And if you bring dedication, positive energy and integrity to the table, you just might be the right fit for our team.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Roles & Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned)
- Define end-to-end architecture for cloud-native and AI-enabled enterprise applications.
- Produce and maintain solution architecture documents, component diagrams, data flows, integration designs, and architecture decision records.
- Ensure solutions meet security, privacy, performance, availability, observability, compliance, and cost requirements.
- Translate business requirements into secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable solution designs.
- Design AI solutions using Large Language Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, semantic search, vector databases, and agentic workflows.
- Evaluate cloud services, AI models, platforms, frameworks, and integration approaches, documenting key decisions and trade-offs.
- Lead architecture reviews and provide technical direction to engineering, cloud, security, data, and product teams.
- Establish reusable architecture patterns, standards, guardrails, and best practices for cloud and responsible AI adoption
Technical Requirements:
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering or application delivery, including significant experience as a Solution Architect or Technical Architect.
- Strong experience designing secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available cloud-native applications, preferably on AWS.
- Good understanding of Generative AI concepts, including Large Language Models, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, and AI agents.
- Experience defining solution architectures for microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, enterprise integrations, and SaaS applications.
- Good working knowledge of Java and Python, with the ability to review technical designs and guide engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, identity and access management, data privacy, observability, performance, and cost optimisation.
- Experience creating architecture diagrams, solution design documents, technology evaluations, and architecture decision records.
- Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and technical leadership skills, with the ability to explain complex solutions to technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience and/or Education Qualification:
- Undergraduate degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required, with graduate degree preferred
- 12+ years of overall experience in Application/Solution Development domain
- Experience building Cloud Native Applications
- Expert hands-on proficiency in Developing Applications using one or more technology stacks
- Strong hands-on understanding of scalability, security, high availability and operational requirements
- Experience with full product lifecycle
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Why apply?
- Empowerment: You’ll work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise. We welcome an opportunity to meet you and learn about your unique talents, skills, and experiences. You don’t need to check all the boxes. If you have most of the skills and experience, we want you to apply.
- Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive change. We are open to ideas, including flexible work arrangements, job sharing or part-time job seekers.
- Integrity: You are results-orientated, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly. We want all our employees to be themselves to feel appreciated and accepted.
This opportunity may be open to flexible working arrangements.
HID is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.
We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something. HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries. We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to go – without having to think about it.
When you join our HID team, you’ll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You’ll have 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.
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