Role: Azure System Solution Architect

Remote (US)

Job Type: W2 Contract

Primary skill: Solution Architecture Systems Cloud Azure

Must have skills: Apache Kafka, Azure DevOps, Dynatrace, GitHub, Java, Microsoft Azure

Role Summary:

Responsible for designing scalable, secure, and resilient technology solutions that are in alignment with organization's business objectives and enterprise standards. Solution Architecture bridges strategic vision and technical execution, ensuring solutions support business growth, adaptability and foster innovation.
Solution architects collaborate closely with business, delivery, and technology teams to translate requirements into actionable designs overseeing these designs to implementation.
Solution architects also collaborate closely with other Enterprise architects to align on patterns and to ensure we are meeting infrastructure, security, data, and business architecture objectives.

Stakeholder Collaboration

Foster an environment of collaboration and partnership across teams to support and enable architecture design and solution delivery
Educate and guide portfolio teams during trade-off and prioritization discussions
Enable product and delivery teams with architectural artifacts to guide collaborations

Strategy Alignment

Drive and align portfolio and solution technology roadmaps that supports strategic business goals
Promote and reinforce adherence to architectural standards and governance processes
Identify and prioritize tech debt and improvements, supporting system health

Solution Design

Drive comprehensive solution architectures including evaluation of current , transitional and future states, data flows, system dependencies and integration designs while ensuring alignment with firm and Architecture strategies and roadmaps
Collaborate across architecture teams to ensure key architecture trade-offs and decisions are documented and consensus is achieved
Collaborate across cross-functional teams to ensure delivered solutions adhere to architecture guidance and principles

Scalable & Secure Solutions

Architect systems that are scalable, reliable and secure
Ensure solution Non-Functional Requirements are documented and re-evaluated as needed
Ensure solution design incorporates IAM security patterns and data protection controls
Evangelize security patterns and implement security best practices in solution designs
Establish reusable scalable solution patterns, best practices, and runbooks.

Operational Excellence

Design for production readiness, continuous improvement and tech currency reduction
Champion HA, DR & Observability best practices
Drive standardization and reusability across solutions
Participate in Incident Response and Postmortems; Help solve complex engineering issues

Architecture Knowledge

Champion innovation, emerging technology, process improvements and automation opportunities
Lead and participate in knowledge sharing, upskilling and PoCs
Create and maintain reference implementations of common solution patterns
Maintain and evangelize reusable knowledge assets such as solution patterns & best practices

Azure System Solution Architect - Only W2

Key skills