Skills: Agile Methodology, Application Development, Budgeting, Business Processes, Business Value Creation, Change Management, Decision Making, Financial Forecasting, Leadership, Long Term Planning, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Office, Negotiation, Process Improvements, Risk Assessments, Risk Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Strategic Alignment, Strategic IT, Structured Query Language (SQL), Vendor Management, Waterfall Model. Working knowledge of the Azure data and AI stack, including Azure Data Lake Storage, Databricks, Synapse, Azure Data Factory, MLflow, and Azure OpenAI Service, plus modern application patterns such as API-first middleware (FastAPI, Azure App Service, Azure API Management), Azure SQL, Key Vault, Azure Active Directory/Entra ID, Azure Monitor, and Azure DevOps CI/CD.