Azure Architect

**Position**: Azure Architect

**Purpose of the Position**: To provide client advisory, pre-sales, and practice development support for Infocepts cloud and data engineering competency center. The position enables Infocepts to meet its business goals by forging enduring practice initiated solutions, supporting delivery teams with technical advisory and consulting, curating convincing proposals and providing future direction to the competency center through research.

Infocepts provides end-to-end data & analytics solutions to commercial and public sector customers in various markets across the globe with a concentration in the US, EMEA, and the APAC regions. Infocepts invests in four core competencies— Cloud and Data Engineering (CDE), Analytics and Data Management (ADM), Business Consulting (BC) and Service Management (SM)—to enable continued access to global markets and unmet needs. The position is responsible to build-out and roll-out solutions, lead advisory engagements, respond to proposals, develop & manage the center of excellence, lead technology roadmaps, in-house capability building, and market research activities.

Reporting to the Director of CDE Competency Center, the position works closely with sales, presales, marketing, delivery and other competency center teams. The position works with the competency team to execute the assigned responsibilities.

**Location**: India

**Travel**: Up to 20% respecting public health guidelines in effect

**Type of Employment**: Full-time

**Key Result Areas and Activities**:

- **Thought Leadership** - Build and share experience and evidence based thought leadership in the Azure, Cloud and Big Data domain through various channels such as Yammer blogs, white papers, webinars, events, and conferences. Provide inputs on creating and enhancing enduring solutions for Practice.
- **Solutions and Sales Support** - Support pre-sales activities including conducting discovery workshops, developing point of views/solutions/scoping, writing proposals, and supporting sales and marketing enablement for Azure, Cloud and Big Data related technologies. Lead the solution development for Practice.
- **Consulting for New and Existing Clients** - Provide advisory consulting to new and existing customers, support delivery hand-offs, address unmet needs, and manage client expectations for their Azure, Cloud and Big Data technologies.
- **Share and Build Expertise** - Develop and share expertise in Azure, Cloud and Big Data technologies and actively mine the experience and expertise in the organization for sharing across teams and clients in the firm. Lead and support the Azure Cloud COE with organized meeting cadence. Create and maintain a vibrant Cloud technology lab as a hot bed of technological innovation. Suggest ways and guide the COE as a capability hub for new technologies with due consideration of their usability. Participate and contribute in other cloud and big data center of excellences.
- **Nurture and Grow Talent** - Provide support for recruitment, coaching and mentoring, and building practice capacity in the firm in Azure, Cloud and Big Data technologies.

**Work and Technical Experience**:

- Experience in data and analytics domain
- Experience in designing Azure cloud architecture and operationalizing solutions around monitoring, alerting, logging etc.
- In-depth knowledge of key Azure services for data integration, BI and processing services including but not limited to Azure HDInsight, Azure Databricks, Azure Portal, Log Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Catalog, Power BI, Azure Search, Azure Functions, Azure Synapse, Azure Stream Analytics and Azure Event Hub.
- Knowledge of Azure storage services such as Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Time Series Insights, Redis Cache, SQL Databases, Table Storage, etc., Snowflake (good to have)
- Knowledge of Big Data ecosystems such as Hadoop / Hive, HDFS, Spark, YARN and others
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Scala, and Java
- Experience in enabling DevOps automation for Azure with appropriate security and privacy considerations
- Knowledge of configuring and provisioning networks and infrastructure in cloud
- Expertise in developing ETL workflows comprising complex transformations like SCD, deduplication, aggregations, etc. Experience with ETL tools like Informatica and Talend will be a plus
- Knowledge of integrating Azure Active Directory with other services
- Knowledge of containerization services such as Dockers and its orchestration through Kubernetes
- Proven ability to work on multiple requirements, design, and development approaches and methodologies (agile, iterative, waterfall, etc.)
- Pre-sales experience will be an added advantage

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (Master’s degree is a plus)
- Demonstrated continued learning through one or more technical certifications or related methods
- At least 14 years of IT experience