Responsibilities & Key Deliverables

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Principal – Cloud Strategy, Platform & FinOps leads the strategic, architectural, operational, and financial governance of Cloud transformation across the Mahindra Group. This role drives the Cloud Center of Excellence (Cloud CoE), multi-cloud adoption, FinOps maturity, modernization, security compliance, operational automation, and digital engineering initiatives. The position works closely with CXOs, CIOs, Business Heads, and cross-functional teams to enable scalable, secure, and cost-optimized platforms powering Connected Vehicles, Engineering Simulations (HPC), Digital Commerce, CRM, IoT, GenAI, and enterprise workloads.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Cloud Strategy & Enterprise Architecture
Define and maintain enterprise cloud strategy aligned to business vision and group digital roadmap.
Lead Cloud CoE covering strategy, architecture, cost, governance, security, and operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Architect and operationalize multi-cloud Landing Zones with standardized guardrails, blueprints, LCM automation,



and security controls.
Drive modernization using open-source stacks (Linux, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes), PaaS, serverless, ARM/Graviton compute, microservices architectures.
Conduct architecture reviews, reference architecture creation, workload assessments, and solution governance for all BUs.

Cloud FinOps & Financial Governance
Manage cloud budgets with full accountability for optimization, contract negotiations, and consumption governance.
Lead FinOps Operating Model for group companies with maturity assessments, cost allocation models, chargeback/showback, and policy enforcement.
Institutionalize dashboards, KPIs, optimization levers, anomaly detection, and cloud financial insights for leadership.

Cloud Security, Governance & Observability
Define security guardrails including IAM, Org Policies, network segmentation, key management, posture management, and compliance frameworks.
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📌 Principal, Cloud Strategy, Platform Mumbai (India)
🏢 Mahindra & Mahindra
📍 India