Global Azure Architecture Lead at Pinewood.AI

Setup: Hybrid
Type: Full-time
Level: Lead
Posted: Jun 19, 2026

Description

Pinewood.AI is seeking a visionary leader to join their team as the Global Azure Architecture Lead. This role involves owning and evolving their global Azure estate, a critical component of their automotive intelligence platform. The successful candidate will work directly with the CTO, focusing on continuous modernization, enhancing resilience and security, and aligning the estate with business needs. They will also be responsible for building and leading a global infrastructure team, defining technical standards, and driving technological progress.

Required Skills

Azure
Bicep
CI/CD
Azure DevOps
GitHub Actions
cloud security
multi-jurisdictional compliance
architecture diagramming

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Demonstrable experience architecting and operating production Azure environments at scale, including ownership of a mature, business-critical estate.
Deep, hands-on expertise across the responsibilities above.
Experience building, leading or mentoring technical teams, ideally distributed across regions.
Preferred Qualifications: Proven multi-region, highly available and disaster-resilient design experience.
Solid grounding in cloud security and multi-jurisdiction compliance and governance.
Strong architecture diagramming and visual communication skills, ideally including diagrams-as-code (e.g. Mermaid, PlantUML, D2) and standard notation/frameworks such as the C4 model and the official Azure architecture icon set.
A considered view on AI-assisted infrastructure (e.g. AI-generated IaC, agentic operations) and the guardrails, policy, gates, review, that make it safe in a regulated environment.
Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, comfortable operating at CTO level.