Lead Enterprise Platform Architect – Microsoft

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Provide architecture leadership and consultative guidance as an individual contributor across Microsoft enterprise initiatives, translating business needs into practical, supportable solutions.

• Make architectural decisions for Microsoft 365 and related platform services, ensuring solutions are aligned to enterprise architecture principles, governance, security, and roadmap direction.
• Develop near-term architecture strategy and solution direction for the Microsoft landscape, including dependencies, sequencing, and technical feasibility for successful delivery.
• Review and guide solution blueprints for Microsoft 365 workloads, providing strategic direction to implementation teams and ensuring consistency with standards and best practices.
• Design enterprise-scale solutions across collaboration, identity, security, compliance, automation, and end-user computing domains, with strong focus on integration with connected systems.
• Define architecture patterns for identity and access management, authentication, authorization, directory synchronization, external collaboration, and hybrid Microsoft environments.
• Partner with cyber security, compliance, and business stakeholders to ensure solutions meet requirements for data protection, threat protection, retention, legal hold, governance, and regulatory compliance.
• Lead architecture considerations for Power Platform, Microsoft Graph APIs, PowerShell automation, licensing governance, and Microsoft 365 operational efficiency.
• Support merger, acquisition, and divestiture activities by defining integration and separation approaches for Microsoft platform services and user productivity environments.
• Stay current on external Microsoft trends and emerging capabilities, and influence internal teams by bringing forward relevant recommendations, risks, and opportunities.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• BE/ B.tech. Any graduation or above.
• 12+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, platform architecture, or solution architecture with significant focus on Microsoft platform and ecosystem
• Deep expertise across Microsoft 365 services including Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Entra ID.
• Strong experience architecting enterprise-scale Microsoft platform implementations in complex, global environments.
• Demonstrated experience making architecture decisions across collaboration, identity, integration, automation, security, compliance, and end user computing domains.
• Brings a strategic mindset while remaining grounded in operational realities and implementation feasibility.
• Builds trust and credibility across architecture, engineering, operations, cyber security, and business teams.
• Challenges constructively and influences with clarity, courage, and sound judgment.
• Proactively identifies risks, dependencies, and opportunities and drives practical mitigation plans.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with broader enterprise integration patterns across HR, ERP, collaboration, security, and productivity ecosystems.
• Experience with Microsoft Power BI for governance reporting, operational dashboards, or platform insights.
• Familiarity with cloud monitoring, observability, and advanced reporting solutions for Microsoft environments.
• Understanding of Zero Trust principles and their application across Microsoft collaboration and identity services.
• Exposure to AI-enabled Microsoft capabilities such as Copilot, automation intelligence, or emerging productivity services.
• Experience evaluating vendor products, platform TCO, and roadmap trade-offs.
• Knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies including agile, DevOps, and iterative delivery approaches.




ELIGIBILITY

Applicants must meet minimum age qualifications in the country in which the job is located.