Professional Services Delivery Architect, Specialty Domain – IN (Azure)

Azure Solution Architect – Job Description

Overview & Responsibilities

Location – Remote

The Azure Solution Architect acts as a technical consultant and trusted advisor, responsible for gathering customer business requirements and translating them into secure, scalable, and cost-effective Azure solution blueprints. The role has a strong focus on complex networking, Azure Landing Zones, large-scale migrations, governance, optimization, and licensing initiatives.

Key Responsibilities & Required Skills

• Act as a consultant to customers, engaging with business and technical stakeholders to gather and document business requirements.
• Translate business requirements into end-to-end Azure solution blueprints, including architecture diagrams and design documentation.
• Assess current-state environments (on-premises and cloud) and define target-state Azure architectures.
• Design and implement Azure Landing Zones aligned with enterprise and Cloud Adoption Framework best practices.
• Architect complex Azure networking solutions including Hub-Spoke topology, VNet peering, ExpressRoute, VPN, Azure Firewall, NSGs, Private Endpoints, Load Balancer, and Application Gateway.
• Design, integrate, and manage third-party network security appliances such as Fortinet and Palo Alto firewalls in Azure.
• Define and execute cloud migration strategies including rehost, replatform, and modernization approaches.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Migrate for discovery, assessment, and migration planning.
• Define and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Bicep and Terraform.
• Conduct Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Optimization and Licensing Assessment (OLA) to support cloud transformation decisions.
• Design Azure identity, security, and governance using Azure AD / Entra ID, RBAC, Azure Policy, and security best practices.
• Drive architectural discussions around security, compliance, scalability, performance, HA/DR, and operational readiness.
• Guide engineering and delivery teams to ensure implementations align with the approved architecture blueprint.
• Work closely with customers to ensure successful delivery, adoption, and ongoing optimization of Azure solutions.