Principal Cloud Enterprise Architect

AWS and Azure

Location: India | Experience: 18+ years | Employment: Full time

Function: Cloud & Infrastructure Services | Role level: Principal / Enterprise Architect

Role Overview

We are looking for a senior, customer-facing architect to lead strategic cloud architecture, solutioning, migration and modernization for global enterprise customers. The role spans discovery and deal shaping through design, estimation, technical governance and delivery, combining deep technology expertise with business and consulting acumen.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for AWS, Azure, hybrid and multi-cloud transformations; define current-state, target-state and transition architectures and technology roadmaps.

• Conduct discovery, assessments and architecture workshops; engage CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and enterprise infrastructure and cloud leaders.

• Design landing zones covering networking, IAM, security, governance, compliance, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery and FinOps.

• Architect large-scale migrations across VMware, Windows, Linux,



databases, storage, networking, middleware and enterprise applications; select rehost, replatform, refactor, retain, retire or repurchase strategies.

• Define migration waves, dependencies, cutover, rollback, validation and hypercare; integrate DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, automation, AIOps, observability and managed services.

• Support RFP/RFI responses, proposals, Statements of Work and presentations; develop effort estimates, resource models, delivery plans, risks, assumptions and commercial inputs.

• Govern architecture during delivery, mentor architects and engineers, and establish reusable reference architectures, standards and accelerators with hyperscaler and technology partners.

Required Experience and Skills

• 18+ years of overall IT experience, including 10+ years in architecture, cloud transformation, infrastructure modernization or enterprise technology programs

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