Cloud Architecture

Required Skills and Experience:

1. 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, platform architecture, enterprise architecture or cloud architecture, including significant experience designing platforms on MS Azure in enterprise or regulated environments.
2. Strong experience with Azure cloud platform architecture, including Azure Landing Zones, hub-and-spoke or virtual WAN network designs, identity and access models, subscription design, management groups, Azure Policy and multi-environment architecture.
3. Experience designing platform operating models that support infrastructure-as-code, automated provisioning, CI/CD, GitOps, self-service workflows, reusable templates, golden paths and platform product management practices.
4. Ability to translate business objectives, policy constraints and delivery needs into architecture principles, target states, patterns, trade-offs and roadmap recommendations.
5. Strong understanding of security, compliance and governance-by-design, including policy-as-code, least-privilege access, network segmentation, secrets management, secure release controls and auditability.
6. Experience with modern software delivery architecture, including CI/CD pipelines, deployment promotion, rollback patterns, quality checks, release governance and developer experience design.
7. Understanding of data platform and AI/ML architecture patterns, including governed data products, managed AI services, Azure AI services, model integration patterns, AI application hardening and responsible AI controls.
8. Experience designing observability and operational architecture using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, dashboards, service health metrics, incident management patterns and business-relevant platform measures.
9. Strong understanding of FinOps, TCO and cloud cost architecture, including tagging, cost allocation, budget controls, usage reporting, optimization levers and cost accountability.
10. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain architecture trade-offs clearly to senior leaders, technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
11. Comfortable working in an agile, product-oriented environment where platform capabilities are delivered incrementally and improved through adoption feedback.

Preferred Skills:

1. Experience operating in Government Commercial Cloud, public sector cloud environments or regulated enterprise environments.
2. Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub, ShipHATS, Terraform, Azure Bicep, API Management, Azure Container Apps, Azure App Service, Microsoft Entra ID, MS Sentinel, Defender for Cloud or equivalent tools and services.
3. Exposure to MS Fabric, Azure OpenAI, Synapse, data lakehouse patterns, data governance, model operations or AI governance frameworks.
4. Experience designing developer portals, internal platforms, platform APIs, service catalogues, self-service workflows or reusable engineering patterns.
5. Understanding of SRE practices, incident response automation, reliability engineering, platform SLIs/SLOs and operational readiness reviews.
6. Familiarity with enterprise architecture methods, architecture decision records, capability mapping, technology roadmaps and architecture governance forums.

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