Azure Solution Architect

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. That’s the spirit of the community you’ll find at Orbia: where the purpose to advance life around the world drives our global team of over 23,000 every single day. 

From creating solutions to deliver clean water, secure food supplies and reliable information to steering material advances that power the future of green and smart cities, transportation, and healthcare, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better. Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we live for. 

Azure Solution Architect

Orbia - Global Functions, is hiring for an Azure Solution Architect in India!

Main Purpose:

The Senior Cloud Architect – Azure Solution Architect plays a pivotal role in shaping our cloud strategies and solutions. They are responsible for providing support for the development and implementation of complex products, applications, and solutions on the cloud. They create detailed design and implementation specifications for complex products, applications and solutions. Through close collaboration with cross-functional teams, they design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure that meets the organization's performance, security, and scalability requirements. Continuously analyzing the latest trends, they suggest upgrade plan for existing cloud architecture. Additionally, they focus on bringing financial accountability to the variable spend model of cloud, drive consumption-based billing, enabling distributed teams to make business trade-offs between speed, cost, and quality.

Main Responsibilities:

• Understand Orbia’s overall Cloud portfolio, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and scalable cloud solutions leveraging expertise in Cloud infrastructure and Application solutions (Windows and Linus IaaS, SAP, VMWare, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, HPC, containers, Infra as a Code services , PaaS, DevOps & Advanced Application coding ).
• Apply technical knowledge and insights to create a migration and modernization roadmap using the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).
• Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensure technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies (e.g. Windows and Linux IaaS, Security, Networking, etc.), and Application Development and DevOps technologies (e.g. App Service, containers, serverless, cloud native, etc.) as appropriate.
• Collaborate with other Application, Technical Architects and MS stakeholders in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform.
• Ensure all solutions leverage the design and operations guidance according to the Well-Architected framework across all pillars, including performance efficiency, security, operational excellence, reliability, and cost optimization.
• Run Architectural Design Sessions to build plan for implementing solution –governing design in line with business goals. Outcome is consensus on solution design and next steps toward production.
• Share insights and best practices, and connect with Engineering teams to remove blockers.
• Demonstrate strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills related to Azure Platform, Infrastructure and Application remediation.
• Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, commitments, and projects and interact daily with System Administrators.
• Maintain a strong learning aptitude and ability to learn new technologies independently.
• Applies new solutions through research and collaboration with team and determines course of action for new application initiatives.
• Implements new software/application solutions as required by the business.

Education:

• Minimum: Bachelor degree
• Desirable: Master’s degree in Computer science, Engineering or Business preferred

Knowledge Required:

• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management.
• Experience with management of cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS, SAP, VMware, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, containers, HPC, and Infra as a code technologies).
• Experience with Identity/Security (Azure): Identity, Security Architecture, Security Management and Network Security.
• Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments (including migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud).
• Experience with scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry etc.), API management, microservice frameworks, SDKs etc.
• Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Visual Studio).
• Competitive Landscape. Knowledge of cloud development platforms preferred.
• Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve business needs.

Experience Required:

• 8+ years of success in consultative/complex technical pre and post sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of Cloud and/or hybrid computing environments.
• Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives in large or highly strategic accounts. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects.
• Ability to solve problems through cloud technologies.
• Excellent oral and written communication, presenting, meeting facilitation, negotiation, decision making, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong ability to know your audience and structure communication and presentations to Orbia application owners, and senior leadership on aspects of complex technical scenarios while maintaining appropriate functional and technical level for the audience.
• Experience working in matrix global organization with strategic sourcing partners where success requires broad orchestration of resources and services.
• Support business and technology strategy and planning by leveraging knowledge in both technical and business areas.
• Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects. Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management, Administrators and Developers).
• Able to articulate vision and strategy for complex and innovative technical undertakings.
• Able to deal with ambiguity and make expert judgments in situations where no precedent exists.

Languages Required:

• English (Fluent)
• Spanish(desirable)

We welcome purpose-driven dreamers, doers, and builders, recognizing that it takes difference to make a difference. If you’re ready to bring your skills, talents, and perspective to moving your career, the company, people, and the planet forward, we’d like to hear from you.  

We believe that every voice matters; every community deserves respect; and every challenge is an opportunity and united by empathy, we are stronger for our different perspectives. We are dedicated to building a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace that supports the needs of all our employees regardless of their role, location, identity, and background.