Join Iris Software, a Top 25 Best Workplace in India's IT industry, and contribute to cutting-edge technology-enabled transformations. We are seeking a Senior Lead Cloud Architect to design, develop, and maintain our Managed AI Gateway platform. This role involves integrating AI services, building scalable APIs, and enhancing portal experiences for AI service onboarding and management.

At Iris, we empower our employees with ownership of their career journey, offering continuous learning, mentorship, and exposure to complex, mission-critical applications. You'll work with the latest technologies in Cloud, DevOps, Data & Analytics, and more, shaping your success story within an award-winning culture.

Design and develop core components for the Managed AI Gateway platform, including AI service integrations (Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, Codex). Build and maintain scalable API services, integration layers, and gateway orchestration capabilities. Develop web portal experiences for AI service onboarding, entitlement management, and operational workflows. Implement robust authentication, authorization, provisioning, and lifecycle management. Support global user onboarding, access workflows, and service consumption. Troubleshoot complex production issues and participate in critical incident response. Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, Security, and Platform Engineers. Perform code reviews and establish engineering best practices. Mentor offshore developers and contractors while remaining hands-on. Contribute to architecture, technical roadmaps, and platform modernization. Ensure platform scalability, reliability, performance tuning, and operational excellence.

Mandatory skills include ARM Templates, Terraform, Application Insights, Azure Function App, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure SQL Server, API Management, Application Gateway, Key Vault, and Managed Identity. Must have expertise in Event-Driven Architecture, Azure/GCP Cloud-Native Development, IAM/OAuth/OIDC/SAML, SaaS & Vendor API Integration, DevOps/CI/CD/GitHub, and Infrastructure as Code. Good-to-have skills encompass Azure AI, Vertex AI, OpenAI, API Gateways, Service Mesh, Enterprise Integration Platforms, FinOps, .NET, Python, Node.js, Go, and REST APIs/Microservices. Experience with AI/ML platforms and API management is crucial. Proven ability to mentor and lead development teams is required.