Job Description

Enterprise Architect

• Location: ​Mumbai, India - tesa Tapes (India) Private Limited
• Entry as: Permanent
• Work Area: Digital & IT

What you will do

• Architect what scales globally. Design end‑to‑end, enterprise‑grade architectures that align with tesa’s global business strategy, governance principles, and operating model.
• Own and evolve enterprise blueprints. Maintain and continuously refine architecture models across business, application, data, and technology layers, ensuring global consistency and reusability.
• Translate requirements into secure, efficient designs. Engage with stakeholders across regions to convert business and non‑functional requirements into globally consistent architectural designs.
• Guide technology evolution. Evaluate and recommend technologies that increase performance, resilience, and interoperability— with Azure as the primary cloud platform
• Ensure compliance by design. Embed security, compliance, and regulatory standards into architectures from the outset, strengthening global governance and risk control.
• Lead through delivery. Provide architectural leadership to global and regional IT initiatives, ensuring consistent application of standards and safeguarding architectural integrity end‑to‑end.
• Proactively de‑risk. Identify potential architectural risks early (scalability, data quality, integration, cost, resilience), propose mitigations, and ensure governance through implementation.
• Work as part of the global governance team. Collaborate daily with the Enterprise Architect at HQ to drive a unified global architecture vision, principles, patterns, and guardrails for all of tesa.

What you will need

• Experience & expertise. 8–12+ years in enterprise or solution architecture with a track record of shaping complex IT landscapes in global organizations.
• Architecture methods & modeling. Strong knowledge of EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and architecture modeling; disciplined in maintaining clear, consumable architecture artifacts.
• Tooling discipline. Proficiency in LeanIX as the central EA repository and transparency layer.
• Cloud proficiency. Hands‑on experience designing modern architectures on Microsoft Azure (cloud-native services, integration patterns, security, cost governance).
• Security mindset. Familiarity with secure design principles, regulatory requirements, and compliance frameworks (e.g., identity management, least privilege, data governance).
• Integration & data thinking. Understanding of data governance, APIs, events, integration patterns, and data platform foundations.
• Global delivery collaboration. Experience working across regions and time zones, influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
• Soft skills that make the difference:
  • Excellent communication across business and technical audiences
  • Strong team player with a collaborative mindset
  • Proactive, structured, and solution‑oriented working style
  • High ownership and ability to drive alignment across organizational boundaries

Nice to have

• Experience in Global Capability Centers (GCC) or global IT governance setups.
• Exposure to multi-vendor delivery landscapes and federated IT organizations.

How you’ll work

• Influence and co‑drive global architecture decisions together with the HQ Enterprise Architect.
• Provide guardrails, patterns, and decision frameworks used across tesa’s regions and product teams.
• Support global transparency and data quality in LeanIX as the single EA source of truth.
• Drive consistency across solutions delivered from India and the rest of the globe.

What success looks like (first 6–12 months)

• A well‑maintained, globally aligned architecture baseline in LeanIX.
• Clear, adopted global reference architectures and reusable patterns.
• Early, structured architectural involvement that reduces delivery risks.
• Strong partnership between India and HQ, with visible contribution to global governance.

Education & certifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Certifications (TOGAF, Azure Architect, SAFe Architect) are a plus.

What you can expect

tesa is one of the world's leading manufacturers of adhesive tape solutions, with a range of more than 7,000 products. With passion for technology, we drive innovation, reliability, and sustainability to shape a better future.

Our solutions make a difference in the work, products, and lives of our customers across a variety of industries, including Automotive, Electronics, and Home applications. With this, we address a broad segment of business customers, but also you as a private consumer.

You might be surprised to discover the many places where our adhesive solutions are at work, from the battery in your electric car, to the display of your mobile phone, and even in the elevator in your building. Wherever you look, you'll find tesa - holding the world together since more than 125 years.