Deloitte Application Studio – Manager – Azure Cloud Architect Deloitte Support Services India Pvt Ltd.

Career Level: Manager

Location: Hyderabad

The Challenge:

The Azure Cloud Architect is involved in many aspects of a customer engagement; from the collaboration with other team members and customers to determine the best solution for a particular engagement to the design, development and delivery of software products in Azure Cloud Platform. Architect owns every technical aspect of the project(s) and acts as the liaison between the customer and the development team in leading the projects, managing releases, requirements and product backlogs from the technical standpoint.

Responsibilities:

·       Collaborating frequently with clients to provide cloud solutions and assistance; and working with these customers to understand their requirements for cloud implementations that add the most value to their business.

·       Create functional design specifications, Azure reference architectures, design documents and assist with other project deliverables as needed.

·       Provide recommendations to clients with respect to cloud migrations and prepare technical implementation roadmaps for Azure adoption.

·       Design state-of-the-art technical solutions on Azure that address customers' requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance and leverage existing investments in Azure platforms.

·       Learn, learn, and learn by staying up-to-date on all technical developments related to Azure and other public cloud platforms.

·       Deliver scalable, reliable applications faster to meet the ever-changing demands of customers.

·       Designing, developing, implementing, and releasing high quality custom software solutions using Scrum.

·       Applying the very best technical agile patterns and practices when building custom software solutions.

·       Working under some supervision from a Solution Architect, but will be expected to work independently on complex, non-routine tasks and projects.  You may interact with end users and other technical personnel to identify and correct issues.

·       Maintain continuous, open, consistent professional communication with customers, peers and team members. Openly listen to others and confirm understanding to ensure everyone is on the same page.

·       Working closely with team members on quality-related activities.

·       Leading and mentoring junior developers through projects.

·       Reviewing and approving 3rd party and integration solution architecture based on established enterprise application strategy.

·       Communicating implications of architectural decisions, issues and plans to business and IT Leadership.

·       Defining and validating non-functional (technical) requirements, and establishing traceability between requirements and application architecture/design.

·       Providing input to the development of project initiation documents including objectives, scope, approach, estimates, and deliverables, when needed.

·       Working closely with Performance Engineering and our Web/Infrastructure Technology teams on defining the deployment architecture.

·       Participating, and technically leading when needed, production troubleshooting and 'War Room' Activities.

·       This role is expected to generally work in India business hours with occasional off-hours status meetings with the on-shore team

Skill sets: (Must have)

·       Education qualification: BE /B Tech / MCA / MSc / M. Tech.

·       10+ years of  IT experience in application development and maintenance activities with Microsoft technology stack

·       1+ years of experience as an architect

·       Experience in architecting complex Enterprise grade solutions in cloud environments.

·       Experience in Azure classic portal & Azure resource manager in cloud deployments.

·       2+ years of experience with any of 2 below Azure technologies is preferable.

·       Design, Implement and deployment experience in 4 or more of the following:

o Azure PaaS technologies such as

·       Azure Web App

·       Azure API App

·       Azure Functions

·       Azure Data Lake

·       Azure SQL,

·       Azure Cosmos DB,

·       Azure Storage,

·       Azure Service Bus,

·       Azure Service Fabric,

·       Azure Cognitive Services (ML, AI, RPA, Bots, OCR & NLP)

·       Azure App Service Environment,

·       Azure Redis Cache,

·       Azure Key Vault,

·       Azure Visual Studio Team Services,

·       Azure AD / MFA etc.

·       Azure IaaS Technologies such as VMs, Virtual networks, Express Routes, Standard/Premium storage etc.

·       Design, implement & deploy applications to Azure with Web UI frontends.

·       Design, implement & deploy application with RESTful/SOAP services interfaces.

·       Experience with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).

·       Firm grasp on cloud security, leveraging Windows operating systems, Active Directory, Federated AD, AD integration.

·       Well versed in designing and building Azure solutions that include high availability, multi-region and multi-set architectures using virtual networks, availability sets and affinity groups.

·       Familiar with various application stacks such as .NET, C#, Powershell etc in a VSTS environment.

·       Azure Powershell deployments, experience with Powershell DSC/CLI etc.

·       Insights and Diagnostics using Azure Log Analytics for both on-prem and Azure cloud environments

·       Familiarity with Office 365 and Sharepoint service offerings.

·       Experience as a hands-on technical practitioner/specialist in client facing roles in large enterprises and demonstrated client facing consulting skills, including building strong client relationships.

·       Excellent verbal, presentation and written communications skills.

·       Strong team skills including the ability to lead and be a team player

Skillset (Preferred):

·        Client facing and exposure to onshore offshore delivery model

·        Experience in working in a global environment involving multiple development sites on various time zones.

·        Exposure to Responsive Application Designs using HTML5, CSS3

·        Exposure to Angular JS, JSON, JQuery technologies

·        Agile development environment especially SCRUM using Urban Turtle.

·        Capable of building sustainable relationships with colleagues and key individuals.

·        Creativity and ability to think outside-the-box while defining sound and practical solutions.

·        Desire to take the initiative, moving projects/ideas forward with clarity.

·        Adept negotiation skills in high-pressure situations.

·        Leadership skills to indirectly lead cross-functional teams towards common solutions.

·        Certifications in Scrum, TOGAF (or any other architecture related)

How you’ll grow

At Deloitte, we’ve invested a great deal to create a rich environment in which our professionals can grow. We want all our people to develop in their own way, playing to their own strengths as they hone their leadership skills. And, as a part of our efforts, we provide our professionals with a variety of learning and networking opportunities—including exposure to leaders, sponsors, coaches, and challenging assignments—to help accelerate their careers along the way. No two people learn in exactly the same way. So, we provide a range of resources including live classrooms, team-based learning, and eLearning. DU: The Leadership Center in India, our state-of-the-art, world-class learning Center in the Hyderabad offices is an extension of the Deloitte University (DU) in Westlake, Texas, and represents a tangible symbol of our commitment to our people’s growth and development. Explore DU: The Leadership Center in India

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