Sr. Cloud Architect - IoT

Your role and responsibilities :

In this role, you will have the opportunity to initiate and drive technology, software, product, and/or solution development using in-depth technical expertise in a specific area. Each day, you will act as the first point of contact in Research and Development (R&D) for in-depth product or technology-related issues. You will also showcase your expertise by supporting strategic corporate technology management and future product/software/solution architecture.

The work model for the role is: #LI-Hybrid

This role is contributing to the Motion Business Service Division in Bangalore India.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Define and govern the Azure data platform architecture (ingestion, streaming, storage, processing, and serving layers), including data modeling, data quality, lineage, and lifecycle management to support analytics and IoT workloads.

• Own the end-to-end Azure cloud architecture for Powertrain enterprise solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives, security standards, and compliance requirements.

• Drive cloud adoption, migration, and modernization initiatives, including transformation of legacy platforms to cloud‑native and microservices-based architectures.

• Drive integration of Azure solutions with customer systems and third‑party platforms, ensuring secure and scalable hybrid connectivity.

• Collaborate closely with solution architect, DevOps, security, and technical team leads to ensure architectural alignment and consistency across product boundaries.

• Provide architectural guidance on non‑functional requirements including scalability, performance, availability, resilience, disaster recovery, and cost optimization (FinOps).

• Champion DevOps and Infrastructure‑as‑Code practices using Azure DevOps / GitHub and, Bicep, or Terraform to enable repeatable and reliable deployments.

• Act as a role model and take responsibility for mentoring and coaching senior engineers and technical team leads, strengthening cloud engineering practices and enterprise-level architectural thinking across teams.

Qualifications for the role:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 15-20 years of IT experience, including 5-6+ years in Azure Cloud / Solution Architecture

• Strong experience designing enterprise-scale Azure solutions across compute, network, storage, data, and integration

• Experience in data platform architecture on Azure (e.g., Azure delta lake, Azure Data Factory, Databricks / Spark, Synapse / SQL, Stream Analytics, Event Hubs / Kafka patterns, Azure Fabric, ML flow, Azure Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry ) and applying data governance concepts (catalog, RBAC, encryption, retention).

• Hands-on expertise with Azure services: IoT Hub, Cosmos DB, Redis, Event Hubs, Service Bus, API Management, App Gateway, Key Vault, App Configuration, Notification Hubs, SendGrid, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure networking

• Strong knowledge of large-scale, complex, distributed Azure,microservices architecture and cloud-native design patternswith hands-on .NET / C#, Typescript and Python development experience.

• Deep understanding of security, identity, governance, and compliance in Azure

• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and cloud operations

• Strong stakeholder communication and presentation skills having prior experience working with global and distributed teams

More about us :

ABB Motion Services serve customers around the globe with innovative services to maximize performance, uptime and energy efficiency throughout the lifetime of electrical motion solutions. Electrical motion is applied everywhere in industries, cities, infrastructure and transportation and is a cornerstone of the energy revolution. Our people and culture are the foundation of our success. We drive innovations through digitalization and make the difference for our customers and partners every day. ABB Motion keeps the world turning, while saving energy every day.