Azure Architect

Role: Azure Architect

Location: Helsinki, Finland

Start Date: As soon as possible

Employment type: Full-time

About the Job:

We are seeking an Azure Architect to lead design and adoption of secure, scalable, and cost‑efficient cloud platforms and modern application architectures. Responsible for designing, building and evolving a secure, enterprise-grade cloud platform on Microsoft Azure. You will lead architectural decisions, implement modern infrastructure automation, and guide teams in adopting cloud-native practices. This position blends hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, stakeholder engagement, and operational ownership of a mission-critical platform used across the organization aligned to Finnish/EU regulatory and security requirements.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Designing and architecting Azure solutions, Cloud Adoption Framework, Cloud Platform design
• Drafting and presenting Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) to Architecture Review Board
• Drive platform engineering foundations (golden paths, developer self‑service portals, reusable modules).
• Establish end‑to‑end observability strategy: metrics, logs, traces, SLOs/SLIs, golden signals, synthetic monitoring, and APM.
• Lead cloud adoption roadmaps, business cases, and FinOps practices; mentor teams on SRE and reliability engineering.
• Run architecture reviews, backlog shaping, and decision records (ADR); coach product teams toward platform standards.
• Embed zero‑trust principles, identity‑first security (Entra ID/Azure AD), Key Vault, and service mesh mTLS.
• Hands-on implementation of IaC and pipelines
• Kubernetes and ArgoCD related development and configuration
• Overall roadmap and sprint planning facilitation
• Presenting platform developments to customer teams and supporting them as necessary
• Participating in support, production changes, and deployments as part of tier 3
• Interaction with stakeholders (risk and compliance, security, Cyber Security, Enterprise Architecture board)

Experience & Skills Requirements:

Must have:

• Experience with Kubernetes and Azure (AKS, ACR, managed ids, key vaults, Redis, log analytics, Azure monitor, Prometheus) in a strict policy controlled environment, preferably in the finance sector
• Development experience with Bicep, Azure DevOps pipelines, GitHub workflows, bash, python, and developer tooling in general (git, vscode, AI tooling or similar)
• SRE experience (production responsibility, observability, resilience, DR and BCP)
• Experience with working in agile and facilitation of agile ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog refinement, dailies, retrospectives)

Good to have:

• Experience with GitOps patterns beyond ArgoCD (Flux, CrossPlane)
• Exposure to financial regulatory frameworks (eg EBA , DORA)
• Knowledge of zero trust architectures and enterprise security patterns
• Experience with multi-region or hybrid cloud architectures
• Familiarity with cost optimization and FinOPs practices

Success Metrics & Unique Selling Proposition (USP) of The Role:

• Deliver secure scalable azure platform capabilities that consistently meet architectural and governance standards.
• Maintain high platform availability with robust observability, resilience and operational readiness
• Build Strong relationship with customer teams, security, risk and stakeholders through clear communication
• Opportunity to shape and influence a modern enterprise-grade Azure platform in a highly regulated environment.

Ready to take your career to the next level? If you’re enthusiastic about with an advanced competency and eager to make a difference, apply now to be part of our journey!

Apply now!

Send your CV together with the motivation letter to [email protected] We will go through the applications on an ongoing basis.

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About Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys. Its consulting-led, cognitive powered, portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile™ delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.

TCS in the Nordics & Finland

TCS has been operating in the Nordic countries since 1991. The company's Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish customers are served by a total of 20,000 experts. Our customers have chosen TCS as the best IT consulting service provider in the Nordics every year. TCS has also received the Top Employer recognition in Finland for Six years in a row.

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