Associate Director

Associate Director

We are seeking an experienced Azure Integration Services (AIS) Senior Lead /Solution Architect with a strong background in Azure Integration Strategy, Architecture, and Enterprise Integration Patterns. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in designing, developing, and implementing cloud-based integration solutions using Azure's iPaaS stack — including Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid, API Management, and Data Factory — to meet the strategic and operational integration needs of the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and support of enterprise integrations using Azure Integration Services.
• Define integration architecture, standards, governance, and reusable integration patterns.
• Provide technical leadership across Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid, and Azure Functions.
• Drive API-led, event-driven, synchronous, asynchronous, and file-based integration architectures.
• Lead troubleshooting of complex production issues and major incident management.
• Ensure integrations meet performance, availability, security, compliance, and operational excellence standards.
• Collaborate with business, application, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams to deliver integration solutions.
• Mentor and develop integration engineers while promoting engineering best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement, automation, observability, and platform optimization initiatives.
• Work closely with the Strategy & Architecture team, development teams, other architects and 3rd party suppliers
• Able to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience in a way that is relevant, easy to consume and compelling.

Experience & Skills

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise integration and middleware platforms.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Azure Integration Services.
• Strong expertise in: 
  • Azure Logic Apps
  • API Management (APIM)
  • Service Bus
  • Event Grid
  • Azure Functions
  • Azure Storage & Integration Connectors
• Strong understanding of API design, microservices, messaging, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems.
• Experience with integration security including OAuth, OpenID Connect, Certificates, Managed Identities, and Key Vault.
• Experience supporting mission-critical, 24x7 production integration environments.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Bicep), monitoring, and SRE practices.
• Experience leading technical teams and managing stakeholders across global organizations.
• Good understanding of SaaS, Cloud hosting and Integration technologies, specifically of the Azure technology stack

• Demonstrated ability to identify implementation issues, determine root cause by collecting data from various sources, and determine solutions that account for business needs drive implementations to success

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Integration Services.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Knowledge of AI-enabled integrations, Azure OpenAI, and modern cloud-native architectures.

Education

B.E./B.Tech/MCA or equivalent.

Experience Range: 12-15 Years

 

Experience Level

Executive Level