Solution Architect Azure Apps

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud strategies and presales experience with Consulting background.
• Solution Design & Shaping: Creating high-level technical designs (HLD) and defining Azure infrastructure, PaaS, and DevOps strategies (e.g., Azure DevOps, Terraform).
• Client Engagement: Acting as the technical lead in sales meetings, leading workshops, and conducting presentations.
• RFP/RFI Response: Developing technical proposals, Statements of Work (SOW), and cost estimations (ROM).
• Proof of Concept (PoC): Designing and running PoCs to demonstrate value.
• Cloud Strategy: Assisting clients with migration strategies and hybrid cloud adoption.
• Strategic Architecture: Develop, maintain, and promote enterprise cloud strategies and technology roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business needs.
• Design & Governance: Design secure, resilient, and scalable Azure solutions (compute, network, storage, security). Establish governance frameworks (Azure Policies/Blueprints) to enforce standards.
• Cloud Migration: Lead migration strategies, transforming on-premises workloads to Azure.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with stakeholders to align technology with business strategies and lead technical teams in implementation.
• Best Practices: Advise on best practices for DevOps, automation, and operational optimization.
• Risk Management: Evaluate technologies to identify potential technical issues and risks.
• Technical Expertise: Expert knowledge of Azure services (ARM templates, Azure Networking, Iaas/PaaS), hybrid cloud architecture, and security protocols.
• Solution Design & Strategy: Translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and resilient Azure cloud solutions.
• Application Modernization: Lead migration of legacy applications to Azure PaaS platforms.
• Technical Governance: Define architectural standards, best practices, and patterns for development teams.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for deploying resources.
• Security & Compliance: Integrate security measures (identity management, data protection) throughout the application lifecycle.
• Collaboration: Partner with DevOps, Data, and Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure successful project delivery.
• Leadership: Experience leading teams, defining technical direction, and delivering presentations to executive leadership.
• Azure Expertise: Deep knowledge of Azure services (App Service, Azure Functions, SQL Database, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Architectural Knowledge: Experience designing distributed systems, microservices, and serverless architectures.
• Programming & Scripting: Proficiency in C#, .NET, Python, or PowerShell.
• DevOps Experience: Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools, preferably Azure DevOps.

Required Skills

• Strong experience with Git version control branching strategies access permission and repository management
• At least 10 years of experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub Enterprise Cloud
• Good understanding of ADO and GitHub access and permission mechanisms
• Handson experience with GitHub CLI and extension
• Ability to interpret and validate migration logs and metadata
• Experience with both ADO and GitHub Action pipelines
• Strong scripting knowledge Ex. PowerShell Bash or Python for automation and validation
• Good understanding of APIs and experience integrating them into scripts
• Exposure to largescale source code repository migrations
• Certified GitHub foundations GitHub ActionsAzure DevOps