Job Description

As a Senior Architect - Solutions you will be responsible for gathering business requirements and designing the system as per business needs. You will work with business leaders and IT teams to come up with best optimal solution in a particular domain while ensuring the impact on other business domains. The key activities includes developing business cases, conducts analysis and recommends effective solutions to meet functional, technical and meeting business needs.

Responsibilities:

• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends.
• Strong understanding of cloud virtualization, storage, and networking.
• Understanding of cloud governance technologies for cost management and control.
• Understanding of common database technologies such as SQL Database/Server, Oracle, MySQL.
• Deep technical experience in enterprise mobile, identity, and access control, & security solutions.
• Working knowledge with AGILE development, SCRUM
• Solid understanding of modern DevOps practices, including automation, continuous delivery, continuous deployment, and continuous integration methodologies.
• Deep understanding of cloud-based Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery practices and strong verbal and written communication and ability to drive discovery and solutioning sessions with customers.
• 5 years of project experience designing and delivering cloud solutions on an enterprise scale.
• Strong oral and written communication skills including presentation skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong team leadership and/or project management experience with multiple simultaneous initiatives
• Strategic planning experience that adapts to communication between technical and business stakeholders
• Ability to identify and build a standard set of KPIs based on business and technical input from multiple sources

Qualifications:

• Education & Certification: Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s preferred. Preferred Certification: Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Cloud & DevOps Expertise: Over 5 years of experience in cloud computing (Azure-focused), including large-scale implementations, migrations, CI/CD, and disaster recovery automation. Skilled in Azure DevOps and equivalent tools (GoCD, Jenkins, Sonar, Nexus), including Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts, GitHub Actions, and IaC using Terraform.
• Software Engineering & Architecture: 5+ years of experience with VSTS, ASP.NET MVC, C#, SQL, JavaScript, Entity Framework, and architecting complex Microsoft platforms (Azure, AD, Exchange, Lync, O365).
• Cloud Technologies & Tools: Deep knowledge of Compute, Storage, Databases, API Management, Managed Apps, FaaS, and container platforms like AKS/EKS. Experience with SharePoint, Power BI, ServiceNow, Mobile Web toolkits, and Kubernetes.
• Agile Practices & Automation: Proficient in Agile/Scrum methodologies, continuous integration/deployment, test automation, and solution documentation/design.
• Security & Compliance: Strong understanding of IT compliance and risk management including security, privacy, PCI, PII, SOC-2.