o Experience - A minimum of 8-12 years of experience in a consulting or an architecture position with a software and/or services company.
Roles & Responsibilities
Understand customer's IT estate, LOB applications, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and cloud native solutions
Collaborate with network, security, AD, backup, tools and application architects and SME's to develop enterprise grade solutions.
Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers.
Define long term cloud strategy and mentor operations teams to implement the solutions
Keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights and maintain technical skills and knowledge
Advocate new features and solutions to bring operational efficiency and cost reduction.
Act as a subject-matter expert on Microsoft Azure and assist Sales/Pre-Sales in RFP activities.

Requirements
Subject matter level expertise on Azure Governance & Cost Management, Azure Network & Security, Azure Active Directory, Compute & Storage, Backup & DR, Monitoring
Extensive experience in conducting design workshops, documentation of HLD (High Level Design) documents.
Rich experience in Migration projects and hand-on experience with ASR/Azure Migrate
Good Knowledge of Azure DevOps, ARM Templates & PowerShell scripting
Experience in PaaS services and Containers is preferred.
Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives and growing data services in large or highly strategic accounts.
Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively.
Resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management and developers)