Sr. Cloud Architect - IoT

Role overview

Sr. Cloud Architect - IoT at ABB

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.

This Position reports to.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Required qualifications

• 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 patterns with 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.

Employment details

• Location: Bangalore [Karnātaka] [India]

About the employer

• At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner—and every person here makes that happen.
• 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.
• Building a cleaner, smarter future takes all kinds of minds: the curious, the courageous, and the creative.
• We welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences.
• Ready to make an impact?
• Apply today or visit www.abb.com to learn more about the impact of our solutions across the globe.
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Additional role details

• You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together.
• Join us and help run what runs the world.
• Program Manager IoT Cloud.