The Principal – Cloud Strategy, Platform & FinOps leads the strategic, architectural, operational, and financial governance of Cloud transformation across the Mahindra Group. This role drives the Cloud Center of Excellence (Cloud CoE), multi-cloud adoption, FinOps maturity, modernization, security compliance, operational automation, and digital engineering initiatives. The position works closely with CXOs, CIOs, Business Heads, and cross-functional teams to enable scalable, secure, and cost-optimized platforms powering Connected Vehicles, Engineering Simulations (HPC), Digital Commerce, CRM, IoT, GenAI, and enterprise workloads.
- Define and maintain enterprise cloud strategy aligned to business vision and group digital roadmap.
- Lead Cloud CoE covering strategy, architecture, cost, governance, security, and operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Architect and operationalize multi-cloud Landing Zones with standardized guardrails, blueprints, LCM automation, and security controls.
- Drive modernization using open-source stacks (Linux, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes), PaaS, serverless, ARM/Graviton compute, microservices architectures.
- Conduct architecture reviews, reference architecture creation, workload assessments, and solution governance for all BUs.
- Manage cloud budgets with full accountability for optimization, contract negotiations, and consumption governance.
- Lead FinOps Operating Model for group companies with maturity assessments, cost allocation models, chargeback/showback, and policy enforcement.
- Institutionalize dashboards, KPIs, optimization levers, anomaly detection, and cloud financial insights for leadership.
- Define security guardrails including IAM, Org Policies, network segmentation, key management, posture management, and compliance frameworks.
- Manage DevSecOps capabilities including SAST, DAST, dependencies scanning, and secure CI/CD workflows.
- Track reliability, latency, performance, and infrastructure health using Observability platform.
- Work closely with business teams to manage our key cloud projects including Connected Car, Data Platform, High Performance Computing.
- Lead delivery of enterprise-grade platforms solutions IoT, Data Engineering, Web Apps, and GenAI-based automation (Voice AI, Audit AI, Procurement AI).
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud-native applications.
11 - 14 yrs.
Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Multi-cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Cloud Landing Zone, network architecture, security, IAM
• FinOps, cost optimization, budgeting, and cloud economics
• Kubernetes, containers, PaaS, serverless, open-source modernization
• DevSecOps, automation, CI/CD governance
• Stakeholder & executive communication, program governance
Many Companies. One Mahindra.
Founded in 1945, the Mahindra Group is one of the largest and most admired multinational federations of companies, with 324,000+ employees across 100+ countries. It enjoys a leadership position in farm equipment, utility vehicles, information technology, and financial services in India and is the world’s largest tractor company by volume. The Group operates in 20+ industries, including renewable energy, agriculture, logistics, hospitality, and real estate, with a turnover of over US $25 billion.
The Mahindra Group has a clear focus on leading ESG globally, enabling rural prosperity and enhancing urban living, with a goal to drive positive change in the lives of communities and stakeholders to enable them to Rise.
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