
Principal Architect - Azure
Datacom
Principal Architect - Azure
Datacom is seeking a Principal Architect to provide strategic technology leadership across complex customer environments, shaping the future of cloud, AI, and digital platforms. The role involves defining enterprise architecture strategy, establishing standards and governance, and ensuring secure, scalable, and commercially successful solutions. Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, AI platforms, and modern architecture practices is required.
Principal Architect - Azure
Datacom is seeking a Principal Architect to provide strategic technology leadership across complex customer environments, shaping the future of cloud, AI, and digital platforms. The role involves defining enterprise architecture strategy, establishing standards and governance, and ensuring secure, scalable, and commercially successful solutions. Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, AI platforms, and modern architecture practices is required.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
Key Responsibilities
- Define enterprise cloud, AI and platform strategies aligned to customer business objectives.
- Lead architecture across large-scale transformation programmes, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, supportable and commercially sound.
- Establish Azure reference architectures, platform standards, governance frameworks and best-practice patterns.
- Guide the design and implementation of agentic platforms, AI-enabled business workflows and emerging AI technologies.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to improve business outcomes, productivity and innovation.
- Provide architecture assurance across cloud, security, networking, data, application and AI domains.
- Establish architectural standards that ensure solutions can be successfully delivered, operated, maintained and evolved over time.
- Support executive stakeholders through strategic advisory engagements, technology roadmaps and investment planning.
- Contribute to thought leadership, architecture communities, innovation initiatives and reusable intellectual property.