Senior Manager - Azure Cloud Architecture

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Azure Cloud Architect — Senior Manager

Practice Overview

Skill / Operating Group

Technology Consulting — Cloud Infrastructure & Ecosystem Advisory

Level

Senior Manager

Location

Gurugram / Mumbai / Bangalore / Pune / Kolkata

Travel

Expected travel could be anywhere between 0–100%

Why Technology Consulting

The Technology Consulting business within Global Network invents the future for clients by providing them with the right guidance, design thinking and innovative solutions for technological transformation. As technology rapidly evolves, it is more important than ever to have an innovation advisor who can create a new vision or put one into place to solve the client's toughest business problems. Specialise in management or technology consulting to transform the world's leading organisations by building innovative business solutions as their trusted advisor by:

Helping Clients: Rethinking IT and Digital ecosystems and innovating to help clients keep pace with fast-changing, customer-driven environments.

Enhancing your Skillset: Building expertise and innovating with leading-edge technologies such as Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Platform Engineering.

Transforming Businesses: Developing customised, next-generation products and services that help clients shift to new business models designed for today's connected landscape of disruptive technologies.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

Overview

Own and lead large-scale Azure cloud architecture advisory programs for enterprise clients — setting the overall architecture vision, governance approach, and delivery strategy. Serve as the executive trusted advisor to CTO, CIO, and senior technology leaders, translating complex Azure architecture decisions into clear business outcomes. Define the target-state Azure architecture including Landing Zone (ALZ) designs, Management Group hierarchies, and Azure Policy frameworks that set the standards teams work within.

Shape the cloud security architecture stance for client engagements — setting Zero Trust principles, Entra ID governance models, network segmentation strategy using Azure Firewall and Virtual WAN, and policy-as-code frameworks that downstream teams implement. Define the Microsoft Defender for Cloud posture and Sentinel integration approach.

Define the FinOps strategy and financial governance model for client Azure estates — setting Reservation and Azure Hybrid Benefit strategies, chargeback and showback models, and multi-year cost optimisation roadmaps using Azure Cost Management. Own the quantification of cost savings and present these to CFO and CIO-level stakeholders.

Set the IaC and platform engineering standards for client engagements — defining governance, tooling choices (Bicep, ARM, Terraform), and architectural patterns that ensure consistency and scalability. Own the observability architecture strategy, defining monitoring frameworks across Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and third-party platforms such as Datadog and Dynatrace.

Beyond core Azure architecture, shape how the practice engages across adjacent areas — defining the AI-ready cloud foundation for AI and agentic workloads using Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, and Azure Machine Learning; setting the cloud architecture standards that Tech Modernization and Technology Resiliency colleagues build upon; and leading ecosystem advisory covering Microsoft partner network strategy, ISV/MSP rationalisation, and MACC commercial model evaluation.

Lead business development activities including RFP and RFI responses, solutioning for large cloud architecture and transformation programs, client presentations at CTO/CIO level. Shape and evolve cloud architecture advisory offerings, reference architectures, and methodologies that strengthen the practice.

Build practice capability through asset development, methodologies, and points of view.