Country/Region:
IN
Requisition ID:
36776
Work Model:
Position Type:
Salary Range:
Location:
INDIA - NOIDA- BIRLASOFT OFFICE
Title: Lead Architect
Description:
Area(s) of responsibility
Job Responsibilities:
A. Solutioning & Technical Architecture
- Lead discovery workshops with customer stakeholders to capture requirements, constraints, and non-functional requirements (availability, security, performance, compliance).
- Define end-to-end architecture for:
- Public cloud (AWS/Azure), hybrid cloud, and private cloud
- Data center services (compute, storage, backup, virtualization)
- Cloud migration, modernization, and managed services
- Create HLDs, reference architectures, and target operating models aligned to SRE/ITIL practices where relevant.
- Define observability-led operations approach (monitoring, logging, performance, capacity) as a part of managed services solutioning, leveraging enterprise tooling concepts used across infra portfolios.
B. Cloud Costing, Configurators & Commercials
- Build cost models using AWS and Azure commercial tooling:
- AWS Pricing Calculator, AWS landing zone/architecture sizing inputs
- Azure Pricing Calculator, Azure Landing Zone and consumption estimates
- Create end-to-end commercials:
- Effort estimation, staffing models, blended rates, onsite/offshore mix
- One-time and recurring cost elements (transition, tooling, run, build)
- Volume assumptions, unit rate cards, and deadband models (where applicable)
- Work with finance/bid teams to ensure pricing aligns to expected margins and target pricing.
C. IaC, DevOps & Automation-led Engineering
- Design solution components using Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
- Terraform / CloudFormation / ARM / Bicep knowledge required
- Define DevOps/DevSecOps pipelines and operational automation patterns
Minimum requirements (Education Qualification, Work Experience and skills):
Educational qualifications, Experience
- BTech / BE in CS, IT or equivalent
- 15+ years of overall experience in Cloud and Data center services solutioning and delivery
- Out of the above, atleast 8+ years of experience as Solution Architect for Cloud and Infrastructure services responding to RFPs / RFIs / Proactive pursuits for global customer