Senior Azure Architect

Overview

Role : Senior Architect

Experience : 10 + Years

Location : PAN India

Notice Period : Immediate / 15 Days NP

Work Time : UK Business hours

Position : Contract

Job Description :

1. Architecture & Design Skills

• Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF or equivalent understanding)
• Solution Architecture & High-Level Design (HLD/LLD)
• Experience preparing Architecture KDD Documentation
• Ability to define As-Is and To-Be architectures
• Strong capability in architectural evaluation, scoring, and decision frameworks
• Ability to define and document NFRs (Performance, Scalability, Availability, Security, Compliance)
• Proficiency in architecture testing strategies and validation

2. Cloud Architecture (Azure Focus)

• Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure services, including:
• Azure Compute (VMs, AKS, App Services)
• Azure Networking (VNets, ExpressRoute, Load Balancers, VPN)
• Azure Storage, Databases, and Data Services
• Azure Monitoring & Logging
• Azure Active Directory and Identity services
• Azure Resource Deployment (ARM/Bicep/Terraform)
• Designing scalable, secure architectures in cloud environments
• Experience deploying solution components into Azure

3. High-Performance Computing (HPC) Skills

• Knowledge of HPC architectures, clusters, workload orchestration
• Integration of on-prem HPC to Azure
• Familiarity with tools like:
• Azure CycleCloud
• Azure Batch
• HPC Pack
• Understanding of networking requirements for HPC workloads

4. Testing & Validation Skills

• Ability to create detailed architecture test plans
• Execution of test scenarios for evaluating multiple vendors/solutions
• Benchmarking, performance testing, and validation

5. Technical & Development Skills

• Strong experience with one or more programming/scripting languages:
• Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar
• Familiarity with DevOps tools:
• Git, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines
• Containerization understanding (Docker, Kubernetes)

6. Documentation & Diagramming

• Expertise in creating:
• HLD/LLD diagrams
• End-to-end architecture diagrams
• Deployment diagrams and integration maps
• Tools: Visio, Draw.io, Lucidchart, or similar

7. Consulting, Analysis & Leadership Skills

• Strong stakeholder communication skills (UK business hours collaboration)
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical architecture
• Vendor evaluation and recommendation capability
• Decision-making and problem-solving mindset
• Cross-functional leadership across engineering, testing, cloud, and operations