# Principal Azure Platform Architect

**Company**: GlaxoSmithKline
**Location**: Bengaluru, Luxor North Tower
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Principal Azure Platform Architect owns the technical design of the Azure Cloud platform, defining reference architectures, patterns, and standards that make solutions secure, scalable, and consistent.

Key Responsibilities:

- Define reference architectures, patterns, and standards for the platform, aligned to DPTF strategy and enterprise architecture.

- Design AI into the platform, producing reference patterns for AI-assisted delivery and intelligent operations.

- Architect for reliability and resilience by design, ensuring platform SLOs and error budgets are achievable.

- Provide design assurance and technical guidance to engineering teams, reviewing designs against standards.

- Ensure platform solutions are secure and compliant, including GxP requirements.

- Evaluate and introduce new technologies, measuring results against architecture OKRs.

- Set architecture standards for supplier and managed-service solutions.

- Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Information Security on standards, roadmaps, and exceptions.

- Increase pattern reuse across the platform, tracking adoption and divergence.

- Reduce rework by intervening early in design and evidencing the reduction.

- Advise the Product Owner and Platform Manager on architectural consequences of roadmap choices.

Professional Qualifications:

- Degree in a technology or engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

- Architecture certifications desirable (e.g., TOGAF).

Area of Specialisation:

- Platform architecture in the relevant domain, covering reference architecture, patterns, standards, and design assurance.

- Security and resilience by design, including AI reference patterns and GxP considerations.

Related Experience Required:

- Overall 15 years and typically 6-8 years in technology architecture or senior engineering.

- Proven experience as an Azure Cloud Architect.

- Knowledge of networking, security, and compliance in cloud environments.

- Experience deploying, configuring, and managing services in Azure Cloud Platform, including AI Services.

- Experience running design assurance or architecture review.

- Track record of architecting for reliability and resilience, working to SLOs and error budgets.

- Experience designing secure and compliant solutions, ideally including GxP or another regulated context.

Skills/Background:

- Ability to influence engineering teams without line authority.

- Judgement about when to grant an architectural exception and when to hold the standard.

- Clear design documentation.

- Comfort challenging vendor claims and evaluating technology on measured outcome.

- Pragmatism about technical debt.

- Collaborative habit with Enterprise Architecture and Security.

## Skills

### Required
- API Management
- Automation Technology
- Cloud Architectures
- Cloud Financial Operations
- Containerization
- Database Management
- Design Assurance
- DevOps
- Disaster Recovery (DR)
- Edge Computing
- Infrastructure As Code (IaC)
- Kubernetes
- Microsoft Azure Architecture
- Networking Concepts
- Performance Optimizations
- Reference Architectures
- Security Compliance
- Serverless Computing
- System Monitors
- Virtualization

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