The
Practice Lead – Azure
is a senior leadership role that sits between technical execution and strategic leadership. As the go-to technical authority for the Azure cloud practice, you will own the overall health, growth, and direction of the practice — spanning technical excellence, people development, delivery governance, and business enablement.

This role is ideal for someone who leads from the front technically, grows people intentionally, and thinks about the practice as a business unit they own.

Responsibilities
- Be the deepest technical expert within the Azure practice and the final authority on architecture decisions
- Review and provide guidance on solutions designed by Azure Architects and Sr. Architects
- Resolve critical technical escalations from ongoing Azure project engagements
- Define and enforce technical standards, best practices, and guardrails across all Azure engagements
- Drive cloud-native and well-architected approaches consistently across the practice
- Identify skill gaps and execute upskilling and Azure certification plans across the team




- Define career progression paths and build a high-performance, learning-driven culture within the practice
- Ensure all Azure projects follow defined technical quality standards and architecture principles
- Define and execute the Azure practice roadmap, including current capabilities, service offerings, and technology focus areas
- Build reusable assets, including reference architectures, accelerators, templates, and runbooks
- Lead and contribute to RFP/RFI responses and participate in client conversations and workshops as the Azure practice SME
- Identify and support upsell and cross-sell opportunities within existing accounts
- Represent the Azure practice in leadership reviews and governance forums
- Report Azure practice health metrics—utilization, certifications, project quality, bench strength—to the Cloud & DevOps Entity Head
- Track Azure ecosystem trends and proactively introduce emerging serv

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