Azure Platform Architect

Senior Principal, Azure Cloud Platform Engineering

Lead the design, modernization, and delivery of enterprise Microsoft Azure platforms. This role combines deep Azure expertise with client leadership, solution shaping, delivery oversight, and technical mentorship.

What You’ll Do

• Lead Azure platform architecture across landing zones, identity, networking, security, governance, observability, resiliency, and cost management.
• Translate business needs into practical platform roadmaps, engineering outcomes, and delivery plans.
• Establish standards for Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, policy as code, DevSecOps, SRE, and operational readiness.
• Guide cloud migrations from discovery and planning through modernization and stabilization.
• Partner with Sales, Delivery, Microsoft, and technical leaders to qualify opportunities, define scope, estimate work, and contribute to proposals and statements of work.
• Review technical designs, resolve complex platform risks, and guide sound engineering decisions.
• Mentor architects and engineers while strengthening technical capability and engineering practices.
• Apply Azure-first expertise across broader cloud, security, data, and application ecosystems when needed.
• Lead the strategy, architecture, and adoption of enterprise AI, agentic, and automation platforms, defining the guardrails, governance, integration patterns, and operating models required to deploy intelligent systems at scale while balancing innovation, risk, security, and business value

What You’ll Bring

• Significant experience leading enterprise Azure platform, infrastructure, migration, or modernization initiatives.
• Strong Azure architecture expertise across landing zones, Microsoft Entra ID, networking, security, governance, compute, containers, observability, resiliency, and cost optimization.
• Experience with Terraform and/or Bicep, GitHub or Azure DevOps, CI/CD, scripting, automation, and production operations.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud-native platform operations.
• Consulting experience communicating with executive, business, architecture, security, and engineering stakeholders.
• Experience shaping technical solutions, defining scope, estimating delivery, and supporting proposals or statements of work.
• Strong technical judgment, critical thinking, and the ability to move teams from ambiguity to action.
• A collaborative leadership style focused on mentorship, accountability, quality, and client outcomes.
• Responsible use of generative AI and coding assistants, including validation of outputs.

Valuable Additional Experience

Azure migration and hybrid services, enterprise AKS, FinOps, reliability engineering, multi-cloud delivery, M&A or tenant transitions, AI/ML infrastructure, and relevant technical certifications.

Success in This Role

You will earn client trust, shape achievable Azure solutions, help teams deliver secure and supportable platforms, and grow engineering capability through technical leadership and mentorship.

About Us

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact. 

What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That’s why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days. 

Compensation and Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges: 

Boston, San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County, Seattle, New Jersey, Washington DC, New York City, White Plains

• Senior Principal: $186,000 - $257,000
• Director: $213,000 - $293,000

All other locations:

• Senior Principal: $171,000 - $236,000
• Director: $195,000 - $269,000

In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time. We will accept applicants until October 15th 20206, or until the position is filled.

We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at: peopleone@slalom.com. Please note, this recipient is not able to support recruitment inquiries beyond this purpose.

EEO and Accommodations

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team or contact accomodationrequest@slalom.com if you require accommodations during the interview process.