Azure Platform Architect

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

• 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.

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 includemeaningful 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

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.