Azure Data & AI Architect
Location: Gurugram, Haryana
Working Model: Remote
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience: 10+ Years
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Azure Data & AI Architect with strong expertise in Azure Data/AI architecture, pre-sales solutioning, and delivery leadership.
The candidate should have proven experience designing and delivering large-scale Azure Data & AI platforms and working directly with customers on solution architecture, RFPs/RFIs, PoCs, and technical presentations.
Prior experience in a Microsoft Partner organization is mandatory, including involvement in Data & AI Solutions Partner designation and/or Microsoft Data & AI specialization requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Design end-to-end Azure Data & AI architectures covering ingestion, storage, transformation, governance, security, and consumption.
Develop reference architectures, solution blueprints, HLD/LLD, and target-state diagrams.
Lead customer discovery, RFP/RFI solutioning, technical proposals, estimation, roadmaps, PoCs, demos, and architecture presentations.
Provide architectural oversight during delivery and guide Data Engineering, AI/ML, and Data Science teams.
Review data pipelines, code, IaC, security, performance, scalability, and cost optimization.
Apply Azure Well-Architected Framework principles.
Support Microsoft Partner requirements, including customer success references, skilling, performance evidence, and specialization audits.
Required Technical Skills
Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)
Azure Synapse Analytics
Microsoft Fabric and/or Azure Databricks
Azure Data Factory / Synapse Pipelines
ETL/ELT and data modeling — Dimensional / Data Vault
Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry
AI/ML & GenAI solution architecture
Microsoft Purview or equivalent
Azure security: Entra ID, RBAC, Key Vault, Private Link
Python, SQL, Spark/PySpark
IaC: Terraform, Bicep, or ARM Templates
MLOps / MLflow / CI/CD
Mandatory Requirements
10+ years overall IT experience.
8+ years in Azure Data & AI Architecture.
Proven experience delivering large-scale Azure data platforms.
Strong technical pre-sales and customer-facing experience.
Experience with RFP/RFI responses, solution estimation, PoCs, demos, and architecture presentations.
Mandatory: Previous experience with a Microsoft Partner organization.
Mandatory: Direct involvement in Microsoft Data & AI Solutions Partner designation and/or Data & AI specialization audit requirements.
Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Azure Data Engineer Associate
Azure AI Engineer Associate
DP-600 – Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer
Power BI semantic modeling/reporting
Consulting / SI / Microsoft Solutions Partner experience
Key Skills
Azure Data | Azure AI | Data Architecture | AI/ML | GenAI | Microsoft Fabric | Azure Databricks | Synapse | Azure OpenAI | Pre-Sales | Solution Architecture | MLOps | Microsoft Partner