Senior AI Cloud Architect - Azure AI Ops Leader

Altera Digital Health (India) LLP; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera Digital Health (India) LLP is seeking a seasoned Principal AI Cloud Architect to lead the shift of our Cloud business unit to an AI-first operating model. You will build and lead a small team of engineers designed to deploy and operate AI agents that manage Azure-based infrastructure for enterprise healthcare clients.

The ideal candidate has deep Azure expertise, hands-on AI/agent systems, and strong experience with Databricks, security, FinOps, and governance in regulated healthcare.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of IT experience with cloud architecture.
• 10+ years in cloud architecture focusing on Azure.
• 3+ years hands-on AI/ML, incl. production LLM/agent AI.
• Experience leading engineering teams and client-facing roles.
• Hands-on with Azure Databricks, Terraform, and AI services.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive AI strategy and roadmap for the Cloud unit, moving to agent-driven automation.
• Build, lead, and mentor a team of 2–6 AI and Cloud engineers for production agents.
• Architect multi-agent AIOps systems for anomaly detection, ITSM triage, and self-healing runbooks.
• Design agents that generate and validate IaC (Terraform, Bicep) with CI/CD integration.
• Develop FinOps agents identifying cost anomalies and idle resources within guardrails.
• Design security/compliance agents for posture assessment and audit collection.
• Establish AI governance with human-in-the-loop approvals and guardrails for healthcare.
• Partner with stakeholders to define end-to-end Cloud and AI solutions.
• Lead data/analytics architecture including Azure Databricks for AI workloads.
• Drive operations: monitoring, logging, observability, resiliency, DR.
• Promote architecture standards and reusable agent patterns across the org.
• Translate AI value to measurable outcomes for clients and executives.
• Evaluate new AI technologies and keep the roadmap aligned with innovation.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Client-facing communication

Azure architecture

AI/ML integration

Cloud governance

Tools

Azure Databricks

Terraform

Bicep

Azure OpenAI

Agent frameworks

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Altera Digital Health (India) LLP is seeking a seasoned Principal AI Cloud Architect to lead the shift of our Cloud business unit to an AI-first operating model. You will build and lead a small team of engineers designed to deploy and operate AI agents that manage Azure-based infrastructure for enterprise healthcare clients.

The ideal candidate has deep Azure expertise, hands-on AI/agent systems, and strong experience with Databricks, security, FinOps, and governance in regulated healthcare.