Skills and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the Cloud architectural roadmap and strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Define and implement best practices in 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.
• Create and maintain architectural documentation, reports, and presentations for stakeholders.
• 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.
• Pre-sales / post-sales (play an active role in winning business)
• Build and grow relationships with cloud and alliance partners to expand our relationships, offerings, and revenues.
• Build relationships with key client decision-makers and influences in partnership with sales and marketing.
• Deliver superior value and conduct project reviews.
• Enable teams to deliver better value in projects.
• Coaching, Mentoring, and Providing the team a clear direction.
  
  

Should be hands-on:

Takes ownership for building cloud capability in the organization by effective coaching and mentoring to move others to a higher level of work.

Improve architecture skills across all team members

Ensure team members are happy through continuous engagement

Help in the career progression of the team

Skills & Experience :

 Expertise in designing high-level, enterprise-grade solution architecture

 At least 8 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 backgrounds

Azure Certified Solution Architect - Professional, certification

Experience with AWS and GCP is a plus

AWS Certified solution architect – professional