Azure Architect

Ambattur, Chennai

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Skills and Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain the AZURE architectural roadmap and strategy aligned with business objectives.
- Define and implement best practices for AZURE architecture design, deployment, and operations.
- Design highly available, scalable, and cost-effective AZURE solutions meeting business requirements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, development, and business units, to align AZURE solutions with organizational goals.
- Analyse complex technical issues, provide recommendations, and lead the resolution efforts for AZURE-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 & 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 AZURE and alliance partners to expand our relationship, 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 Provide team a clear direction.

Should be hands on:

- Takes ownership for building AZURE capability in the organization by effective coaching and mentoring to move others to a higher level of working.
- Improve architecture skills across all team members
- Ensure team members are happy through continuous engagement
- Help in career progression of the team.

Skills & Experience:

- Expertise in designing high-level, enterprise grade solution architecture
- At least 8 years of relevant experience as a AZURE Architect
- Ability to manage estimates, tasks, escalations, risks/issues
- Ability to clearly articulate concepts to people with varying technical background
- AZURE Certified Solution Architect - professional, certification
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