Sutherland: Enterprise Architect — Chennai, TN, India

About Sutherland

Sutherland works in business and digital transformation, combining technology services with business-process expertise. Its employer descriptions identify artificial intelligence, automation, cloud engineering and advanced analytics as areas of activity. The company uses products, platforms and service delivery to improve business operations and customer experiences. Its stated approach brings human expertise together with AI, adapting technology and process changes to the needs of the organisation receiving the service rather than providing only a standalone software product.

The position and its setting

Sutherland lists Enterprise Architect in Chennai, TN, India, under reference REF45390Y. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Employment type: Full-time
• Employer listing date: 2 September 2026
• Brands: Sutherland

Responsibilities and work described

• Owns the end-to-end technical architecture across all workstreams
• Acts as the single point of architectural authority ensuring solutions are consistent, secure, and scalable across AWS and Microsoft-based environments, and arbitrates trade-offs between teams working on parallel builds
• Define and own the target-state architecture spanning AWS (Bedrock, Fargate, Lambda, SNS/SQS, DynamoDB, S3) and Azure (AI Foundry, Document Intelligence) environments
• Set integration standards for Microsoft Graph API/Teams-based delivery channels used across chatbot, translation, and document-processing services
• Review: and approve designs to ensure reusable patterns (callback/consumer mechanisms, notification handlers, session/context storage) are not duplicated across builds
• Evaluate integration options where core business systems restrict API access or screen scraping, and recommend viable architectural workarounds
• Represent technical architecture in governance forums and in scoping discussions for new builds
• Define non-functional requirements: security, data residency, exactly-once processing guarantees, and disaster recovery across a multi-site delivery model

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 10+ years in enterprise/solution architecture, including 3+ years designing GenAI/agentic systems in production
• Deep hands-on knowledge of AWS Bedrock, Bedrock Agent Core, Amazon Nova, Fargate, and event-driven architectures (SNS/SQS)
• Experience architecting solutions that span two cloud providers (AWS + Azure) in a single environment
• Track record of standing up architecture governance under an aggressive delivery timeline

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Regulated industry background strongly preferred — understands the difference between "automatable" and activity that must remain human-owned

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Work arrangement: On-site
• Advertised location: Chennai, TN, India

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Sutherland

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Practical preparation: AWS

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Relevant skills

• AWS
• Azure
• APIs
• AI/ML
• AI