Azure Architect

Overview

As an expert in Microsoft Azure architecture, you will take a leading role in shaping enterprise-scale, transformative programmes for clients, bridging business strategy and engineering excellence across projects from modernising financial institutions' technology estates to designing new cloud-native platforms.

What you'll do

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, defining architecture strategies and visions.
• Deliver Azure-based solutions that drive clear business impact.
• Bridge the gap between senior stakeholders and delivery teams, bringing architectural vision to life through multi-disciplinary teams working at pace.
• Contribute to commercial activity.
• Promote delivery excellence across the Technology and Engineering Practice through mentoring junior talent and thought leadership in the community.

What you'll need

• Proven experience leading solution and enterprise architecture for complex, large-scale Azure initiatives, supported by relevant Microsoft certifications.
• Experience advising senior leadership on cloud strategy, adoption, and development, with demonstrable client influence and business outcomes.
• Domain expertise in financial services or similarly complex regulated industries.
• Experience designing integrations between Azure estates, other cloud providers, legacy on-premises systems, and third-party services using API-led design, gateways, and BFF patterns.
• Experience designing distributed, zero-trust architectures using Azure services such as AKS, Azure Functions, and Service Bus for microservices and event-driven solutions.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical teams within agile delivery models and modern engineering practices (e.g., SAFe and DevOps).
• Experience applying recognised architecture frameworks and methodologies (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, Domain-Driven Design, or NIST).

Nice to have

• Senior or managerial-level consulting experience.
• Expert-level Azure credentials or architecture qualifications such as TOGAF.
• Experience leading pre-sales, including solution scoping, commercial effort estimation, and the development of formal bid responses.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale data and AI platforms using Azure-native services such as Synapse, Fabric, and Azure OpenAI Service.
• Experience designing landing zones and secure networking topologies, managing group hierarchies, and implementing identity-led security architectures with Active Directory and RBAC policies.
• Experience designing and launching greenfield cloud-native ventures, fintech solutions, or innovative platforms.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.