Mimecast

Cybersecurity

SeniorArchitect-GCI

India FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Architect - GCI at Mimecast. Skills: Architecture, Cloud-native, AI-First Architecture, Product Shaping. Shape problems with product partners. Contribute at the problem-framing stage”

What You'll Achieve.

Shape the future of Mimecast's Governance, Compliance & Insight (GCI) suite; Help the team unlock value across Mimecast’s entire portfolio; Deliver results; Protect data inside thousands of enterprises; Shape one of Mimecast’s fastest-evolving product lines

Industry & Context.

Cybersecurity
Problems you'll solve

Translate real customer problems into effective, efficient solutions; Reason about system shape and trade-offs; Identify and prioritize debt reduction

Eligibility Requirements

Offer of employment will be subject to successful completion of applicable background checks

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

8+ years building and operating production systems, Engaging with product early in the cycle, Comfortable owning architecture across multiple teams, Working knowledge of AWS (ECS/EKS, S3, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, IAM, VPC), Kafka, Ability to reason about distributed systems at high volume, Track record of designing clean contracts between systems and teams, Comfortable working with PMs on problem definition, Actively use AI development tools day-to-day, Comfortable designing systems that include LLMs, agents, retrieval, or related components, Strong written and verbal communication, Good at building consensus across teams and organizations, Comfortable with ambiguity, Driven, accountable, and able to identify the right problems to work on, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience, 8+ years of professional software engineering and architecture experience, At least 2 years in a Solutions Architect, Principal Engineer, Tech Lead, Product Architect, Staff Engineer, or similar role with significant product-shaping responsibility, Willingness and drive to use AI development tools in a professional setting

Nice to Have

Background in security, compliance, eDiscovery, identity, observability, or data platforms, Familiarity with agentic AI, MCP (Model Context Protocol), or LLM application architecture, Experience with eval design for AI systems, Product discovery practices, Data contract / data mesh approaches (e. g. , ODCS)

What You'll Do.

Shape problems with product partners

Contribute at the problem-framing stage

Run and facilitate workshops

Define what “good” looks like

Own integration contracts as product artifacts

Define how the product line touches Mimecast

Own the durable interfaces

Build the architectural context engineering teams operate inside

Set NFR and evaluability targets

Coordinate across teams and organizations

Engage Enterprise Architecture bidirectionally

Estimate and monitor cost and unit economics

Provide cost projections

Reason about cost per outcome

Wear a technical-architect hat when it adds value

Propose technical debt work

Identify and prioritize debt reduction

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work alongside other Solutions Architects; Connective tissue across product management, user experience, and engineering; Coordinate across teams and organizations; Gathering stakeholder buy-in; Shepherding decisions to closure; Engage Enterprise Architecture bidirectionally; Build consensus across teams and organizations; Work with PMs; Work with engineers; Work with designers

Communication Scope

Strong written and verbal communication; Write a one-page ADR; Draft a solution brief; Lead a whiteboard session

Full Job Description

# Senior Solutions Architect — Governance, Compliance, & Insights ## ## Why Join Us? The interesting work in enterprise security has moved inside the organization. AI agents are creating new insider risk and compliance obligations every day. Data is sprawling faster than the controls around it. At Mimecast, our product lines sit where all of that converges. This is an architecture role reporting directly to an Enterprise Architect (EA). You’ll work alongside other Solutions Architects on the team to shape how the product evolves, how it integrates with the rest of Mimecast, and how it stays ahead of where the market is going. The Solutions Architect role at Mimecast sits closer to the product problem. Discovery, shaping, and contract design now drive more of the value than detailed component design. If you primarily want to be a heads-down individual contributor, this isn’t the right seat. If you want to shape what gets built and own the structural decisions that make a product line move fast with quality, it is. ## AI-First Architecture at Mimecast Mimecast is an AI-First engineering organization. We expect this role to use AI development tools daily — for design exploration, prototyping, documentation, code review, and analysis. This is not optional and it is not bolt-on; it is how we work. You will also be designing systems that incorporate AI directly. This product line is actively building agent-aware detections and AI-driven enrichment, and contributing to Mimecast’s broader AI-powered risk products. Comfort designing with — and for — LLMs, agents, and modern AI architectures is core to this job, not a side interest. We treat architecture artifacts — ADRs, AGENTS.md files (agent-readable repo context), and data contracts — as machine-readable context, not documentation. They’re the substrate that humans and agents both operate inside, and they capture the reasoning behind design decisions — the why, not just the what. ## The Opportunity This is a leadership ro

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