Responsibilities :

- Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with management.

- Identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the Microsoft Azure ecosystem to deliver business growth and resolve blockers.

- Lead requirements gathering and project scoping.

- Solution design, problem-solving, and architecture diagramming.

- Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and effectively promote Azure with clients, at conferences, and online.

- Provide recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure needed to implement a complete solution for clients.

- Lead planning, status, and standup meetings.

- Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required.

Qualifications :

- 5+ years of Azure experience is a must.

- Experience in other clouds is beneficial.

- Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification required, other Microsoft, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications a plus.

- Must have played 2+ years as an Azure Architect.

- Lead cloud architecture strategy, requirements gathering, solution definition, and technical discovery for Azure transformation initiatives.

- Experience in building, architecting, designing, and implementing distributed global cloud-based systems.

- Lead architecture workshops and translate business requirements into target-state architectures, solution designs, architecture diagrams, and implementation roadmaps.

- Design and implement Azure Landing Zones, governance, identity, networking, security, monitoring, and operational frameworks.

- Extensive experience with security (Zero Trust) and networking (Azure Vnets, Hub-and-Spoke, Express route, VPN, Entra ID etc.) in cloud environments.

- Strong experience designing and advising on CI/CD and DevSecOps practices, with hands-on understanding of Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code.

- Experience in containerising workloads using Kubernetes/AKS, Docker, Helm, and Azure Container Registry.

- Experience with structured Cloud Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premises-to-Azure migration deployments and roadmaps.

- Develop migration strategies and roadmaps covering discovery, assessment, landing-zone readiness, migration, modernization, and optimization.

- Knowledge of technology solutions and ability to learn emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.