Senior Azure Architect (m/f/d)

Overview

Job Summary

Core Design & Architecture Responsibilities

• Design and architect end-to-end Azure solutions that define the proposed products, services, delivery model, and target-state architecture.
• Produce high-level designs (HLD), low-level designs (LLD), architecture diagrams, and detailed technical documentation for complex enterprise solutions.
• Translate business, operational, security, and compliance requirements into practical, maintainable, scalable, and cost-effective Azure architectures.
• Design multi-tier application and infrastructure platforms on Azure, including enhancements and redesigns of existing services.
• Define Azure landing zone, subscription, identity, governance, and network architecture patterns aligned to enterprise standards.
• Create and maintain architecture artefacts, standards, reusable patterns, and infrastructure repositories across the architecture lifecycle.

Migration, Hybrid Cloud & Platform Responsibilities

• Act as solution architect for large migration programs, with architect-level experience in projects involving at least 200+ nodes.
• Apply Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) principles and migration best practices across discovery, assessment, landing zone readiness, migration planning, and cutover.
• Design Azure network architectures for migrating on-premises workloads, including connectivity, routing, segmentation, firewalling, load balancing, and hybrid integration.
• Architect complete IaaS stacks on public and private cloud platforms, including compute, storage, networking, backup, monitoring, and security services.
• Support hybrid platform scenarios involving Azure, Azure Stack, VMware, Hyper-V, and OpenStack environments.

Technical Governance & Stakeholder Leadership

• Participate in architecture design reviews, governance boards, and technical forums, representing the infrastructure architecture function across multiple projects.
• Provide technical leadership to delivery, operations, security, and engineering teams during solution implementation and service transition.
• Guide teams on architectural best practices, design standards, governance controls, risk management, and technology selection.
• Engage customers, internal stakeholders, and project teams in workshops, design discussions, solution reviews, and decision-making sessions.

Requirement

& Experience

• 10+ years of technical experience, including solution design and architecture responsibilities.
• At least 6 years of customer-facing, consulting, or professional services experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong communication, documentation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to lead workshops, architecture discussions, migration planning sessions, and solution review meetings.

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Experience with enterprise landing zones, governance models, cost optimization, and security baselines.
• Exposure to large-scale migration, modernization, and transformation programs across multiple projects or customers.
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