Lead Platform Architect – Azure Cloud

Lead Platform Architect – Azure Cloud

Fractal Analytics is a strategic AI partner to Fortune 500 companies with a vision to power every human decision in the enterprise. Fractal is building a world where individual choices, freedom, and diversity are the greatest assets. An ecosystem where human imagination is at the heart of every decision. Where no possibility is written off, only challenged to get better. We believe that a true Fractalite empowers imagination with intelligence. And that it will be such Fractalites that will continue to build the company for the next 100 years.

Please visit Fractal | Intelligence for Imagination for more information about Fractal.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage Azure infrastructure components including Virtual Machines, Blob Storage, Azure Active Directory, Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups, and networking configurations.
• Operate across multiple Azure subscriptions within Azure Management Groups and Azure Landing Zones, collaborating with governance teams to ensure compliance and consistency.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI/CD.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates or Bicep.
• Apply DevSecOps principles to enforce security best practices across cloud environments.
• Support incident response and troubleshoot infrastructure and networking issues across distributed systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and maintain scalable, resilient platforms.
• Define and implement SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets to measure and improve platform reliability.
• Contribute to observability initiatives by implementing centralized logging and metrics ingestion across Azure subscriptions using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Azure Functions.
• Support the development of dashboards and alerting frameworks using tools like Grafana, Datadog, or Prometheus to improve platform visibility and reliability.
• Integrate observability with incident management tools such as ServiceNow, MS Teams, or Slack.
• Contribute to tagging frameworks and FinOps reporting automation for cost attribution and optimization.
• Participate in blameless postmortems and incident trend analysis to reduce operational toil.
• Maintain documentation, architectural diagrams, and operational playbooks for platform components.
• Architectural Strategy & Governance
• Define architecture vision of a data platform and roadmap leveraging Azure and Databricks tech stack.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and governance models.
• Enable architecture reviews and technical design sessions for client projects.
• Cloud Platform & Data Architecture
• Architect scalable, resilient, and secure Azure infrastructure across multiple subscriptions and landing zones.
• Design and optimize Azure Databricks environments for data engineering, machine learning, and analytics workloads.
• Collaborate with governance and security teams to ensure compliance and consistency.
• DevOps & Automation Leadership
• Oversee CI/CD strategy and tooling across Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab.
• Guide infrastructure automation using Terraform, ARM templates, and Bicep.
• Security & Reliability Engineering
• Champion DevSecOps principles and platform security best practices.
• Define and implement SRE frameworks including SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets.
• Observability & Incident Management
• Architect centralized logging, metrics ingestion, and alerting frameworks using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Grafana, Datadog, and Prometheus.
• Integrate observability with incident management tools like ServiceNow, MS Teams, or Slack.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Partner with data engineering, analytics, and product teams to align platform capabilities with business needs.
• Provide architectural guidance on Databricks workloads, including Delta Lake, MLflow, and Unity Catalog.
• Enable documentation on architectural diagrams, platform playbooks, and knowledge repositories.

Education & Certifications

B.E / B.Tech / BCA / MCA or equivalent.

Preferred Certifications:

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Pay:

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Fractal, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is: $150,000 - $165,000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus for the current performance period.

Benefits:

As a full-time employee of the company or as an hourly employee working more than 30 hours per week, you will be eligible to participate in the health, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability plans in accordance with the plan documents, which may be amended from time to time. You will be eligible for benefits on the first day of employment with the Company. In addition, you are eligible to participate in the Company 401(k) Plan after 30 days of employment, in accordance with the applicable plan terms. The Company provides for 11 paid holidays and 12 weeks of Parental Leave. We also follow a "free time" PTO policy, allowing you the flexibility to take time needed for either sick time or vacation.

Fractal provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Fractal Doesn't offer any sponsorship at this time.