Data and AI Architect (Hyderabad)

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Band E/F Azure Architect to lead the design, development, and governance of our cloud ecosystem. The ideal candidate will have robust expertise across Azure architecture, data engineering, data science enablement, security, and enterprise integrations. This role partners closely with engineering, product, and business teams to deliver scalable, secure, and futureready cloud solutions.

Key Responsibilities

1. Azure Cloud Architecture

Design highly available, scalable, and costoptimized solutions using Azure services (Compute, Storage, Networking, App Services, AKS, Event Hub, API Management).

Lead architecture reviews, cloud adoption frameworks, and bestpractice implementations.

Define reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails for development teams.

2. Data Engineering & Analytics

Architect endtoend data pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Delta Lake, Databricks, ADLS Gen2, and Event Streaming solutions.

Establish data ingestion, transformation, and governance frameworks.

Optimize data models for analytics, machine learning workloads, and enterprise insights.

Collaborate with Data Scientists to operationalize ML models using MLOps (Azure ML, Model Registry, CI/CD pipelines).

3. Data Science & AI Enablement

Enable scalable training, deployment, and monitoring of ML/AI workloads.

Evaluate and integrate Azure AI services (OpenAI, Cognitive Services, search vectors, embedding pipelines).

Define best practices for feature engineering, model lifecycle management, and ML observability.

4. Security, Compliance & Governance

Implement ZeroTrust architecture and industry standards for identity, access, encryption, and network security.

Establish governance via Azure Policy, Blueprints, Defender for Cloud, RBAC, and resource hygiene.

Lead security assessments, threat modeling, and compliance auditing (SOC2, ISO, HIPAA, etc.).

5. Integrations & API Ecosystem

Architect enterprise integr .