Associate Director, Deployment Architect, DTS - Global Capability Center

Location: Gurugram, Haryāna, India

Date Posted: Sep 29, 2026

About Alvarez & Marsal

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with entrepreneurial, action and results-oriented professionals. We take a hands-on approach to solving our clients' problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work - guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity - are why our people love working at A&M.

The Team

Our DTS team provides following services to clients:

• Data & Applied Intelligence - Helping clients in harnessing the power of data and cutting-edge analytics to drive intelligent decision-making and transform businesses.
• Product and Innovation - Empowering clients to innovate, develop, and launch products that drives growth and competitive advantage.
• Technology M&A and Strategy - Assist clients to manage the technology aspects and business enablement of complex M&A, integrations and carve-outs.
• Technology Transformation - A&M helps clients create a scalable, cost-effective IT function that delivers the company's strategic vision and priorities.

How you will contribute

• Own design authority for taking AI applications into production, set the standards delivery teams must build to, and uphold those standards under commercial pressure
• Act as the approval authority at both mandatory checkpoints: readiness to go live and readiness to transition into steady-state operations, including authority to stop a release.
• Define deployment-specific non-functional requirements for performance, availability, scalability and cost, and make the trade-offs between them explicit.
• Lead threat modelling for agentic applications, including prompt-injection exposure, tool-call abuse, retrieval poisoning and data-exfiltration paths
• Determine cloud placement and portability for each engagement, balancing client data-residency constraints with reuse of the firm's standard toolkit.
• Own governance throughput, including internal risk and technology reviews, model cards and audit trails; commission independent penetration testing or security certification when required by the client.
• Serve as the senior technical voice with client CIO, CISO and risk stakeholders, and with A&M Managing Directors, on scope, cost, risk and change.
• Build and expand the reusable asset library so each subsequent deployment is faster and more cost-effective.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience as Solution architect•Significant experience architecting and deploying production systems on at least two major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP), including at least one generative-AI or agentic workload used by real users
• Demonstrable design-authority experience: setting engineering standards that other teams build to, rather than only delivering against standards defined elsewhere.
• Working knowledge of LLM application security architecture, including identity, secrets, network isolation, content filtering and the attack surface introduced by agents
• Ability to define and defend non-functional requirements and cost envelopes and translate technical risk into commercial language for non-technical stakeholders
• Experience operating within a formal technology-governance or risk-review process.
• Executive presence: credible with client C-suite stakeholders and comfortable declining a senior request when the evidence does not support it.

Your journey at A&M

We recognize that our people are the driving force behind our success, which is why we prioritize an employee experience that fosters each person’s unique professional and personal development. Our robust performance development process promotes continuous learning, rewards your contributions, and fosters a culture of meritocracy. With top-notch training and on-the-job learning opportunities, you can acquire new skills and advance your career. We prioritize your well-being, providing benefits and resources to support you on your personal journey. Our people consistently highlight the growth opportunities, our unique, entrepreneurial culture, and the fun we have together as their favorite aspects of working at A&M. The possibilities are endless for high-performing and passionate professionals.

Culture & Values

At Alvarez & Marsal, our core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity guide everything we do, shaping a culture rooted in entrepreneurship, impact, and integrity. We trust our people to take ownership early, contribute to meaningful challenges, and drive results that matter. We empower growth and champion diverse perspectives. Above all, we value doing the right thing. For those ready to roll up their sleeves, lead with integrity, and be difference makers, this is where it starts.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is Alvarez & Marsal’s practice to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, family medical history, genetic information or other protected medical condition, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by and in accordance with applicable laws. Employees and Applicants can find A&M policy statements and additional information by region here.

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