Tech Solution Architect

About Godrej Industries Group (GIG)

At the Godrej Industries Group, we are privileged to serve over 1.1 billion consumers globally through our businesses with market leadership positions in the consumer products, real estate, agriculture, financial services and chemicals industries. https://www.godrejindustries.com/

About Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL)

Godrej Consumer Products is a leading emerging markets company. As part of the over 125-year young Godrej Group, we are fortunate to have a proud legacy built on the strong values of trust, integrity and respect for others. At the same time, we are growing fast and have exciting, ambitious aspirations. Today, our Group enjoys the patronage of 1.2 billion consumers globally, across different businesses. We rank among the largest Household Insecticide and Hair Care players in emerging markets. In Household Insecticides, we are the leader in India, the second largest player in Indonesia and are expanding our footprint in Africa. We are the leader in serving the Hair Care needs of women of African descent, the number one player in Hair Colour in India and Sub-Saharan Africa, and among the leading players in Latin America. We rank number two in Soaps in India and are the number one player in Air Fresheners and Wet Tissues in Indonesia. Innovation is a key driver of our strategy, and we are constantly looking to delight our consumers with exciting, superior quality products at affordable prices. We were the highest ranked Indian company on Forbes' list of The World's 100 Most Innovative Growth Companies 2015, for the second year in a row. https://www.godrejcp.com/

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture (HLD/LLD) for multiple AI/data products: workflows, data flows, service boundaries, integrations, and NFRs.
• Define and communicate reference architectures for product capabilities spanning data ingestion/serving, ML/GenAI components, APIs, and orchestration.
• Drive key technology and design decisions (stack selection, build vs buy, batch vs real-time, integration patterns), documenting rationale and tradeoffs.
• Design integration architecture with enterprise systems and data sources: API strategy, eventing patterns, identity/SSO, authorization, logging, and audit trails.
• Partner with Data Architects/Data Engineers to define data contracts, access patterns, data quality expectations, and governance requirements.
• Partner with MLOps/AI Engineering to define productionization requirements for ML/GenAI (deployment, monitoring, evaluation, safety/guardrails).
• Partner with DevOps/Cloud teams to define deployment architecture (environments, scalability, resiliency, observability, cost controls).
• Collaborate with Security/Compliance to ensure privacy-by-design, secure architecture, and auditability.
• Lead technical design reviews and ensure architectural coherence across teams and vendors.

Key Skill

• Solution Architecture & System Design (Core): Strong experience designing distributed, scalable systems and data-heavy applications. Ability to produce clear HLD/LLD: service decomposition, data flows, sequence diagrams, API specs, NFRs. Strong integration design capability (REST/event-driven patterns, error handling, idempotency, versioning).
• Cross-Functional Technical Leadership: Proven ability to lead architecture across multiple specialist teams (data, cloud, DevOps, MLOps, security) without owning all execution. Strong stakeholder management: can translate business outcomes into technical approaches and align diverse teams.
• Data & Analytics Architecture Literacy: Solid understanding of modern data architectures (warehouse/lake/lakehouse concepts), data modeling basics, and analytics access patterns. Ability to define requirements for data quality, lineage, governance, and access controls in partnership with data specialists.
• ML Production & GenAI System Design Literacy: Strong understanding of what it takes to run ML systems in production: evaluation, deployment patterns, monitoring/drift concepts, retraining triggers. For GenAI use cases: working knowledge of RAG architectures, prompt/versioning concepts, guardrails/safety patterns, and evaluation approaches. Ability to define non-functional and governance requirements for AI systems (privacy, audit logs, safe usage, risk controls).
• Cloud-Native & Operational Readiness Literacy: Strong understanding of cloud architecture concepts: networking basics, IAM, encryption, secrets, scaling, resiliency. Ability to specify requirements for CI/CD, observability (logs/metrics/traces), SLOs, and cost/performance constraints (execution owned by platform teams).
• Decision-Making & Documentation: Experience making and documenting architectural tradeoffs (build vs buy, latency vs cost, centralized vs decentralized). Strong documentation discipline: design notes, architecture review artifacts, and decision records.
• Hands-on experience implementing MLOps/LLMOps/DevOps toolchains (e.g., MLflow, feature stores, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI pipelines). Experience with data platforms/tools (Databricks/Spark, Snowflake/BigQuery, Kafka), vector databases, or LLM orchestration frameworks.
• Domain exposure in CPG/FMCG, marketing analytics/media planning, pricing, forecasting/supply chain systems.

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience). Experience in roles such as Solution Architect, Technical Architect, Staff Engineer, Tech Lead, or Platform Engineer with demonstrable architecture ownership.

Work Experience

8–10 years

Benefits

• Equal Parent: Childcare benefits for the birthing parent, commissioning parent (in case of surrogacy) or adoptive parent, and their partners. 6 months of paid leave for primary caregivers, flexible work options on return for primary caregivers. 2 months paid leave for secondary caregivers. Caregiver travel for primary caregivers to bring a caregiver and children under a year old, on work travel.
• Coverage for Childbirth and Fertility Treatment
• No place for discrimination at Godrej: Gender-neutral anti-harassment policy. Same sex partner benefits at par with married spouses. Coverage for gender reassignment surgery and hormone replacement therapy. Community partnerships and advocacy. Persons with Disability (PwD) care.
• We Are Selfish About Your Wellness: Comprehensive health insurance plans, as well as accident coverage for you and your family, with top-up options. Elder care for those who might need to extend support to senior family members. Preventative healthcare support. Outpatient Department (OPD) coverage, including vaccinations, dental, vision, etc. Uncapped sick leave. Flexible work options, including remote working and part-time work. Mental wellness and self-care programmes, resources and counselling.
• Celebrating wins, the Godrej Way: Structured recognition platforms for individual, team and business-level achievements. Digital and offline instant recognition platforms.

An Inclusive Godrej

Before you go, there is something important we want to highlight. There is no place for discrimination at Godrej. Diversity is the philosophy of who we are as a company. And it has been over a century. It’s not just in our DNA and nice to do. Being more diverse - especially having our team members reflect the diversity of our businesses and communities - helps us innovate better and grow faster. We hope this resonates with you. We take pride in being an equal opportunities employer. We recognise merit and encourage diversity. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination on the basis of nationality, race, colour, religion, caste, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, or marital status and ensure equal opportunities for all our team members.

If this sounds like a role for you, apply now! We look forward to meeting you.

Key skills/competency

• Solution Architecture
• System Design
• Distributed Systems
• Data Architecture
• MLOps
• GenAI
• Cloud-Native
• DevOps
• Stakeholder Management
• Integration Design