Architect - Middleware

Role: Middleware Architect 

Role Description 

We are looking for a skilled and passionate Middleware Architect to join our Architecture team at Societe Generale Global Solution Centre (GSC) in Bengaluru.

This is a full-time role within the GTE/ARC organization, offering flexibility for remote work.

The Middleware Architect will be responsible for defining, designing, and governing middleware architecture across ETL/BI platforms, application servers, and integration layers. The role will focus on ensuring robust, scalable, and compliant middleware solutions supporting data processing, reporting, and application runtime environments, aligned with Group architecture standards and DMP (Data & Middleware Platform) priorities.

• Strong experience in Middleware Architecture, Integration Architecture, or Platform Architecture.
• Overall professional experience of 8–12 years with minimum 4–5 years in middleware or related architecture roles.
• Hands-on experience with ETL / BI tools such as SSIS, SSRS, and related Microsoft data stack.
• Strong knowledge of application servers and middleware platforms (e.g., IIS, WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat or equivalent).
• Experience in designing data integration, batch processing, and reporting pipelines.
• Good understanding of data flows, data processing, and system integration patterns.
• Experience in platform modernization and migration (on-prem to cloud or hybrid environments).
• Knowledge of performance optimization, scalability, and high-availability design for middleware systems.
• Experience with CI/CD integration, DevOps practices, and deployment automation.
• Understanding of security, access control, and compliance considerations in middleware environments.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for complex system issues.
• Banking/Finance domain experience is highly appreciated.
• Stay updated with the latest trends in middleware, data integration, and application runtime platforms.

• Mentor teams and ensure adoption of middleware standards and architectural best practices.

   

• →Define and promote middleware architecture standards, patterns, and best practices across ETL, reporting, and application server platforms.
• →Design and review ETL/BI architectures (SSIS, SSRS) ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• →Provide architecture guidance for application server environments and runtime platforms.
• →Support data processing, integration, and reporting use cases within DMP and related programs.
• →Collaborate with Data, Application, and Infrastructure Architects to ensure end-to-end solution coherence.
• →Review solution designs to ensure alignment with Group architecture standards and operational constraints.
• →Identify gaps in existing middleware platforms and propose improvements or modernization initiatives.
• →Analyze existing ETL, reporting, and middleware setups and recommend optimization and rationalization opportunities.
• →Support migration initiatives (legacy to modern platforms, hybrid/cloud transformations).
• →Ensure performance tuning, resilience, and availability of middleware components.
• →Define best practices for job scheduling, data pipelines, batch processing, and reporting workloads.
• →Contribute to governance activities including architecture reviews and design validation.
• →Conduct POCs and architecture studies to validate new middleware technologies and solutions.

In the context of DMP initiatives, the focus of this role is to strengthen architecture capabilities on:

• →ETL / BI platforms (SSIS, SSRS)
• →Application Servers and Middleware runtimes
• →Data processing and reporting pipelines

This role is critical to address current gaps in middleware architecture coverage and to ensure robust, scalable, and governed implementations across data and application layers.

If you are passionate about Middleware Architecture, Data Processing platforms, and Enterprise Integration, we invite you to apply and be part of our Architecture team at Societe Generale.

At Societe Generale, we are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious.
Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating and taking action are part of our DNA.
If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a daily basis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!
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