Responsibilities:

·        Contribute towards defining and maintaining cloud architecture standards and design strategies.

·        Engage with internal stakeholders to capture business requirements, translating them into secure, scalable, cost‑efficient cloud solutions.

·        Assess current cloud technologies and ensure alignment with business goals and efficiency targets.

·        Facilitate smooth transition of Digital/GTM solutions from sandbox or development environments into production, ensuring proper governance, deployment practices, and handoff to operations.

·        Lead or guide deployment of complex cloud solutions with hands-on ownership where needed and ensure smooth operational transition.

·        Collaborate with cross‑functional teams and managed partners to deliver consistent, standardized cloud services.

·        Produce architecture documents, standards, policies, and operational handover materials.

·        Participate in governance forums (architecture review, change review).

·        Identify opportunities for automation and efficiency improvements and implement them in accordance with existing enterprise automation framework & tooling

·       Interface with operation teams to ensure seamless transition of cloud services into operations

·        Oversee cloud migration projects, including planning, execution, and optimization.

·        Review new cloud offerings of interest for organizational alignment

 

Technical Requirements:

·        Extensive experience with a wide range of Cloud (Azure) services, such as Virtual Machines, Azure App Services, Azure SQL Database, Azure Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Batch, Container App Environments, etc.

·        Strong background in cloud architecture best practices, including high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery

·        Experience with cloud migration strategies and tools, such as Cloud Migrate and database migration services.

·        Expertise in Azure architecture, automation (IaC, CI/CD), identity, networking, and security best practices.

·        Extensive experience in IaC and automation tooling including, Terraform, Ansible, Cloud init, Azure CLI, Python/Powershell, Git, GitHub Action Workflows, Docker

·        Understanding of general & cloud-specific networking stack

·        Experience in building and implementing Azure Policies

·        Experience integrating cost‑governance (FinOps) considerations into architecture decisions.

·        Strong background in producing high‑ and low‑level designs across multi‑vendor cloud ecosystems.

·        Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.

 

Qualifications

·       5–7+ years of hands‑on cloud architecture and design experience in large, distributed enterprise environments.

·       Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or experience in a related field.

·       Proven experience as a Senior Cloud Architect or a similar role.

·       Relevant certifications, such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.