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successful delivery outcomes.\nLead globally distributed teams including architects, developers, DevOps engineers, data engineers, and QA resources across onshore and offshore delivery models.\nDrive Agile and Scrum practices while providing delivery oversight, risk management, estimation, roadmap planning, and technical project leadership.\nMentor architects and senior engineers while establishing a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.\nEvaluate emerging technologies and develop strategic recommendations aligned with organizational objectives.\nEnsure solutions comply with enterprise security, compliance, privacy, governance, and regulatory requirements.\n.\nRequired:\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.\nMinimum 15 years of professional software engineering and solution architecture experience with at least 8 years architecting enterprise solutions on Microsoft Azure.\nProven experience 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