Senior architecture ownership, without the permanent hire.
Up to ten days a month, more if the programme needs it, reporting to your project lead. The architecture decisions get made, documented, and defended.
Decisions about system boundaries, data ownership, integration patterns, failure behaviour, and sequencing get made either deliberately by one accountable person or accidentally by whoever picks up the ticket. The second way is cheaper for about four months.
Most partner firms cannot justify a full-time enterprise architect, and most clients will not fund one. But a programme touching six systems needs the role for the duration, not forever. That is the engagement.
What the role actually does
Owns the target architecture
System boundaries, data ownership, integration patterns, and the sequence in which things become true. Documented in a form your team and your client's team can both read, and kept current as reality intervenes.
Makes the decisions that block work
The questions that quietly stall a sprint — which system owns this record, what happens when that call fails, do we sync or stream — get answered by someone with the authority and the experience to answer them, in hours rather than at the next steering meeting.
Sets the engineering standards
Non-functional requirements, error handling, observability, security and data-protection expectations, testing and release standards. Written as standards the team can apply, not principles nobody references twice.
Reviews what gets built
Design and code review at the architecturally significant points, so drift is caught while it is still cheap to correct.
Carries the technical conversation
Where you want it, we sit in client architecture reviews, security reviews, and vendor conversations as part of your team — and translate between engineering detail and executive consequence.
Hands the role back
The engagement is designed to end. Decisions, rationale, and standards are documented and transferred to whoever owns them next.
Our founder, Jayant Chaudhary, spent close to three decades in enterprise technology at American Express, AT&T, BellSouth, Delta Technology, Travel Syndication Technology, and Flamenco Networks — payments, travel, and telecom, where volume and regulation set the standard. eProxim has been engineering integration since 1997 across payments, travel, telecom, billing, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing.
That background is also why this often arrives alongside a rescue: the programmes most in need of architecture leadership are usually the ones already in trouble.
Four recurring situations.
Platforms we architect across
A named practice page for each platform partners resell, implement, and inherit.