Azure Infrastructure Architect

Title: Azure Architect IaaS/PaaS

Location: ( 2 days in Financial District NYC)- Hybrid

Experience: 15+Years

Job Description:

This Azure Architect SME role is for the CLIENT's IT Modernization Transformation program to review and sign off on the Vendor team architectural deliverables team ensuring Azure architectural standards are met and in compliance with CLIENT's architectural standards working with Architectural boards and leadership committees. We are seeking a highly experienced lead Azure Cloud professional, an Azure Architect, with very strong experience and skills as below

Technical:

• Azure Resource groups/Resource managers and to map/architect, Azure IaaS and Azure PaaS architecture
• Azure configuration mechanics
• VMware on Cloud knowledge
• Architecture Styles, Principles, Patterns, Solutions, Identity, Security, Governance.
• Azure IaaS - ARM, ASR, Recovery Service Vault, Service Principal, Key Vaults, Automation, Azure Migrate Service
• Azure PaaS - App Service, Functions, Logic Apps, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Data Factory, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Machine Learning Service, Azure API Management, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks platform, Microsoft Identity Platform
• Design 3 Tier architecture for Applications to Cloud
• Microsoft Cloud Technologies for enterprise applications Windows-based Applications migration to the Cloud
• Web App servers approach
• Azure Landing Zone
• On-Prem to Cloud migration
• SQL DB - Good understanding of Views, Synonyms, Indexes, Joins and Partitioning. Knowledge of SQL Database.
• Version control software like GitHub, TFS, Azure DevOps
• Azure DevOps, Azure Administration, Azure Infrastructure

Functional:

• Ability to see the "big picture"
• Ability to communicate information effectively at all levels. Business savvy, with excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to remain current on technical updates and apply new knowledge to the job.
• Ability to understand intuitively what steps need to be planned to solve a complex range of problems
• Strong analytical skills to solve and model complex business requirements.
• Sound understanding of software development best practices.
• Strong, innate problem-solving skills
• Ability to collaborate on a cross-disciplinary teams and clearly communicate solutions to both technical and non-technical team members.
• Must exhibit strong professionalism and be effective working with senior management.
• Ability to set clear standards for performance.
• Ability to adapt leadership style appropriately.
• Ability to provide coaching, feedback, and mentoring skills in a constructive way
• Ability to multitask and effectively manage time. Ability to perform tasks and complete projects with minimal supervision.
• Ability to provide, as well as receive, feedback collaboratively and in a constructive manner.
• Significant experience in software development delivering solutions into production and a track record of getting stuff done.
• Self-motivating, self-directing, a great communicator, and a desire to take personal responsibility to complete tasks and solve problems.
• Experienced in working on large enterprise, high-availability, software products.
• Experience successfully working remotely and/or with geographically dispersed teams.
• Thorough understanding of Azure DevOps to maintain Product Backlog Items, User Stories, Tasks, Bugs.

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility is to review and sign-off on Vendor teams architectural deliverables ensuring Azure architectural standards are met and in compliance with CLIENTs architectural standards working with Architectural boards and leadership committees working in a fast-paced environment and meet tight deadlines for projects and assigned architectural activities
• Architect and deliver scalable enterprise solutions combining various Azure services working with Application teams.
• Focus on sustainable development of high performance scalable, and maintainable enterprise solutions working in any environment (including Agile).
• Collaborate with the team to facilitate design discussions around architecture and business requirements with other Architects, Product Owners, and Business Analysts. Take ownership of undefined and unbounded problems and work with the team to create and deliver scalable designs and solutions.
• Provide technical architectural leadership, direction, and oversight of development teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement and development best practices across products, teams, architecture, and implementations.
• Ensure successful migration of Applications On prem to Cloud and supporting teams as required.
• Team development, coaching and providing feedback to individual team members, training and support so all team members have and use required technical competencies.
• Educational Qualification : Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Additional Information : MCSA Cloud Platform Azure Training Certification MCSE Cloud Platform Infrastructure Certification

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