Associate Principal - Architecture

Role Description

Primary Skills

Lead hands on design and validation of cloud architectures across Azures core services, with a focus on scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, and compliance.

Translate complex business and security requirements into clear, actionable cloud designs.

Develop and maintain detailed architecture diagrams, standards, and technical documentation to guide engineers and stakeholders.

Define and enforce cloud governance frameworks, including policies, RBAC, tagging standards, cost controls, and compliance guardrails.

Provide architectural oversight for cloud deployments, directly reviewing and validating configurations to ensure designs are implemented correctly and consistently.

Own Azure cost optimization practices, including reserved instance savings plan strategy, chargeback tagging models, and ongoing FinOps governance.

Bring deep expertise across Microsoft Azure core services, including networking, compute, storage, identity, databases, monitoring, and security.

Deliver hands on configuration and troubleshooting using Azure native Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tooling, including ARM, Bicep, Terraform, Ansible, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions.

Act as a trusted technical advisor to leadership, project teams, and enterprise client stakeholders on architecture and best practices.

Around 10 to 15 years of experience in cloud architecture roles; Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification or equivalent preferred.

Good hands on in implementing AI Agentic based use cases.

Secondary Skills

Collaborate with DevSecOps engineers, application engineers, and business stakeholders to support solution delivery.

Embed automation and integrate security practices into CI/CD pipelines.

Advocate Azure best practices and stay current with platform roadmap changes.

Support audit, security, and compliance reviews with architecture level input.

Contribute to technical vendor tool evaluations for the cloud platform.