Designs and leads enterprise Azure cloud application architectures, including modernization, migration, governance, security, cost optimization, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code. Provides technical leadership, mentoring, client advisory, pre-sales and post-sales support, solution delivery, partner development, and thought leadership. Acts as a trusted advisor to CIOs and CTOs while overseeing scalable, highly available, cost-effective cloud solutions.
Job Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Application Architect to design and implement enterprise-grade, cloud-native solutions using Azure services. This role involves defining best practices for architecture, governance, security, and cost optimization while enabling CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. You will provide technical leadership, mentor teams, and act as a trusted advisor to clients, driving modernization, migration, and innovation initiatives. The position also includes pre-sales and post-sales engagement, building strategic partnerships, and contributing to thought leadership through white papers and presentations.
Experience: 10+ years
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement cloud-native application architectures using Azure services (App Services, AKS, Functions, Service Bus, etc.).
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Establish governance, cost optimization, and security best practices for Azure applications.
- Work closely with DevOps teams to enable CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC).
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to development teams.
- Define and implement best practices architecture design, deployment, and operations.
- Design highly available, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions meeting business requirements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, development, and business units, to align cloud solutions with organizational goals.
- Analyse complex technical issues, provide recommendations, and lead the resolution efforts for cloud-related challenges.
- Build capabilities, offerings, service accelerators and differentiators.
- Build a go-to-market strategy that highlights our cloud offerings that best support our customers' challenges.
- Innovation and Thought leadership, bringing out white papers, blogs, presentations, and collaterals.
- Responsible for delivering solutions architecture for major clients.
- Client Relationship Management (both pre-sales, Solution & post-sales)
- Be client CIO/CTO's trusted advisor.
- Deliver superior value and conduct project reviews.
- Enable teams to deliver better value in projects.
- Coaching, Mentoring and Provide team a clear direction.
Should be hands on:
- Create and maintain architectural documentation, reports, and presentations for stakeholders.
- Define solution blueprints and oversee application modernization and migration to Azure.
- Pre-sales / post-sales (play an active role in winning business)
- Build and grow relationships with cloud and alliance partners to expand our relationship, offerings, and revenues.
- Build relationships with key client decision makers and influences in partnership with sales and marketing.
Key Skills:
- Expertise in designing high-level, enterprise grade solution architecture
- At least 10+ years of relevant experience as an Azure Cloud App Architect
- Ability to manage estimates, tasks, escalations, risks/issues
- Ability to clearly articulate concepts to people with varying technical background
- Azure Certified Solution Architect - Az 303/304/305.
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