Country/Region: IN
Requisition ID: 36776
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Location: INDIA \- NOIDA\- BIRLASOFT OFFICE
- *Title:** **Lead Architect**
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Description
- *Area(s) of responsibility**
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- *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**