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29/10 Swati Shah
Senior Consultant at Global Village Consulting

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Principal Architect - Azure Cloud Services (15-20 yrs)

Bangalore Job Code: 860246

Azure Principal Architect 


Exp: 15 - 20 Years

Job Description :

- Principal Architect will be responsible for growing the Azure cloud practice and driving the revenue growth in Azure cloud areas

- S/He will be primarily responsible for defining and driving the key initiatives, solution offerings and evangelizing within the company and across the customer base. This role will entail to be abreast on the latest in cloud technology space and would require strong architecting and implementation skills across cloud providers, specifically Azure.

- We are looking for a seasoned technology professional with strong technical expertise and have proven his mettle in successfully architecting and delivering projects across v and different cloud service layers (-aaS)/LOB.

Responsibilities :

- Responsible for designing, building Cloud solutions and provide required support to Sales/Pre-Sales teams.

- Nurture the Cloud practice & to be part in complete life cycle of service offerings like Pre-Sales /Transition/Service delivery till it reaches the matured level.

- Study the existing Cloud Services like processes, best practices and standardize the service offerings, strengthen and improve the maturity levels and make a strong practice.

- Give inputs to standardize the Sales kit for Cloud offerings (Proposals, PPTs, Templates) etc.

- Focus on continual improvement of Cloud service offerings. Work closely with Sales, Pre-sales, Transition, Service delivery teams and key functions like HR, Finance, and Training department and support them

- Drive and deliver strategic cloud initiatives for the cloud practice

- Drive technical track in Presales conversation/Respond to RFPs

- Makes technical presentations and submits viewpoints, whitepaper for publication to internal and external stakeholders.

- Delivery of complex solutions to issues which might include but are not limited to - Architecture, Configuration, Security, Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Infrastructure etc.

- Recommends how specific technologies, standards, methods and techniques are to be used throughout the solutions delivery community.

- Designs and implements larger research and proof of concept projects as an individual contributor, focusing on one or a small number of technologies or applications to be implemented into a larger platform.

- Aid in evangelizing/institutionalizing industry leading practices, trends and equip the dev community with the right skills to successfully deliver cloud projects

Experience/Skills :

- Professional degree with 12-16 years experience with architecting, designing and implementing Azure/Multi cloud services

- Should have extremely good business acumen and growth mindset

- Should be entrepreneurial and responsible for growing the practice vertical Technical

Expertise :

- Minimum 6+ years of good hand-on experience with Azure foundation services related to compute, network, storage, content delivery, administration and security, deployment and management, automation technologies.

- Should have a strategic thinking mindset

- Strong architecture & design experience of Deploying Enterprise applications on Azure, monitoring and performance tuning of deployed applications on Azure

- Expertise in developing competencies and references through proof-of-concepts

- Expertise in Infra capacity sizing, costing of Azure services to drive optimized solution architecture, leading to optimal infra investment vs performance and scale

- Expertise in articulating architectural choices within various Azure services and solution methodologies

- Proficiency in DevOps automation and tools - Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Shell Scripts

- Understanding of networking fundamentals, concepts and design principles

- Working Knowledge in Java, Node JS & other open source technologies

- Working Knowledge in AJAX, JQuery is an added advantage

- Knowledge in Configuration Management tools like SVN, TFS, VSS

- Knowledge on Software Development Lifecycle Methodology (SDLC)

- Conceptual understanding of SOA principles, Design Patterns and ability to provide solutions based on them

- Proficiency in Preparing/Responding RFI, RFP and customer specific requirements Soft

Skills :

- Strong work ethic and a desire to help drive a successful architectural vision across the projects

- Ability to rapidly assimilate new information and new techniques

- IT Experience in consumer industries domain is a plus

- Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills required

- Good team player with interpersonal skills

- Sound analysis, problem resolution, team building, judgment and decision-making skills required

- Ability to travel internationally both short term & long term

- Very good in client communication

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Maternity and Paternity Benefits

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