- Executive Consulting : Act as a trusted technical advisor to the teams, customer executive and technical leadership, translating complex technical roadmap into clear business value and risk assessments.

- Enterprise Cloud Strategy : Define the multi-year, enterprise-wide strategy for cloud adoption, migration, and modernization, with a strong focus on GCP services and strategic interoperability with the second cloud platform (Pref AWS).

- Architecture Governance : Establish and enforce global cloud governance frameworks, architectural standards, reference models, and reusable patterns for deployment, security, and operations across all environments.

- DevOps & Cost Strategy : Drive advanced DevOps practices and accountability models. Oversee cloud cost optimization initiatives, negotiate large enterprise cloud contracts, and establish technical guardrails to ensure maximum ROI across the multi-cloud footprint.

2. Core Technical Responsibilities (50%) :

- GCP Deep Expertise : Architect and lead the implementation of complex, large-scale solutions on GCP, hands-on experience on leveraging services like GKE, Cloud Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Vertex AI, and Cloud Spanner.

- Interoperability Design : Design and govern the integration patterns for hybrid and multi-cloud systems, focusing on low-latency, secure connectivity, and consistent Identity and Access Management (IAM) across platforms (e.g., using federated identity or centralized key management).

- Advanced Security : Define the DevSecOps and cloud security posture, ensuring that designs meet stringent Indian regulatory (e.g., data residency) and global compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).

- Innovation & PoCs : Lead Proof-of-Concept (PoC) initiatives for emerging technologies like Generative AI (e.g., Google Vertex AI or AWS BedrockI), serverless computing and define their eventual architecture and integration into the enterprise landscape.

- Cloud Migration : Experience in Cloud migration strategy and implementation

- Observability

- Policy Definition

3. People Leadership & Mentorship (10%) :

- Team Development : Mentor, coach, and grow a team of Senior/Lead Cloud Architects and engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.

- Process Improvement : Own and drive continuous improvement of the cloud architecture delivery pipeline, promoting GitOps and end-to-end automation across the development lifecycle.

- Cross-Functional Alignment : Collaborate with Data & AI Team and Engineering Leads to ensure architectural decisions align with product roadmaps and business domain goals.

4. Required Qualifications :

- Experience : 15+ years of progressive experience in IT/Software Engineering, with at least 5-10 years in Cloud Architecture leadership roles managing enterprise-scale transformations.

Cloud Platform Mastery :

1. GCP : Mastery of GCP services, networking, and security. Primary Cloud skill

2. Second Cloud : Deep architectural experience in AWS (e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS)

Certifications (Preferred ) :

1. Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (Preferred)

2. Professional/Expert-level certification from the secondary cloud provider (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional).

Technical Stack :

1. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform (including multi-cloud modules)

2. At least one programming language ( Java/Python)