Director | Azure Cloud Solution Architect | Noida | Engineering

Director | Azure Cloud Solution Architect | Noida | Engineering Job requisition ID : 98256 Location : Bengaluru Entity : Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP Your work profile Define and maintain an Azure platform strategy and multi-year roadmap aligned to business priorities. Standardize Landing Zone and governance (management groups, Azure Policy, RBAC) across subscriptions and business units. Drive an Infrastructure-as-Code-first model (Terraform/Bicep/Ansible) with automated guardrails and reusable patterns. Establish and meet reliability and cost KPIs (availability, performance, FinOps savings). Mature observability (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights) with actionable SLOs and runbooks. Develop a strong talent pipeline and upskilling plan for architects, platform engineers, and SREs. Own Azure platform strategy, reference architectures, and multi-subscription governance; drive adoption of Landing Zones, management groups, Azure Policy, and Blueprints. Set and enforce platform standards for networking, identity, security, data protection, and connectivity patterns (hub-and-spoke, private endpoints, PaaS guardrails). Lead Infrastructure-as-Code adoption (Terraform, Bicep/ARM, Ansible) and scalable automation (pipelines, modules, reusable patterns). Establish golden images/patterns and enable product teams with self-service catalogs while ensuring compliance. Own SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs/error budgets), incident/problem/change governance, and resilience engineering. Define platform observability strategy and integrate third-party APM where helpful. Partner with Security/Risk to embed security-by-design across identity, encryption, key management, logging, and regulatory controls. Ensure continuous policy compliance and manage remediation programs for drift and vulnerabilities. Lead cloud financial management (FinOps): unit economics, chargeback/showback, reservations, rightsizing, and ROI tracking. Govern a portfolio of Azure programs; manage roadmaps, dependencies, risks/issues, and executive reporting. Engage senior business and product owners to shape demand and prioritize outcomes; act as escalation point for critical initiatives. Build and mentor a high-performing team of architects, platform engineers, and SREs; define competency maps and learning paths. Manage strategic vendors and evaluate new Azure services for secure, timely adoption. Key skills required 1215+ years of experience in infrastructure/cloud, with extensive Azure leadership across architecture, governance, and operations at scale. Proven delivery of Landing Zones, Infrastructure-as-Code at scale, and platform automation; strong networking, identity, and security depth. Executive stakeholder management with a track record of delivering business outcomes (cost, reliability, speed). Hands-on fluency with Terraform and Bicep/ARM; automation using PowerShell/Python; CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure. Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (and/or Azure Administrator, Security Engineer) preferred. Experience leading Agile/DevOps transformations and establishing platform product operating models. Strong communication and people leadership across multi-disciplinary, global teams. Exposure to defining and tracking KPIs such as Landing Zone compliance, SLO attainment, FinOps savings, MTTR, and IaC coverage preferred.