Technical Architect - Application Development & Azure Cloud

Key Note: Cloud Azure experience is primary requirement. Azure & AWS is fine but not only AWS as not aligned to role requirement.

Duties and responsibilities

• A strong understanding and practical experience in planning and delivering cloud migration projects
• Strong understanding of traditional monolithic, cloud-native and mobile architectures
• Design various architectural layers (Conceptual and Solution Architecture Documents) for targeted programs, with an emphasis on Infrastructure, Application, Data, Security and Business Architecture
• Engage in architecture governance, review boards and working group meetings to gain approval for solutions, standards, and design patterns
• Contribute to the development of business cases and request for proposals
• Update and maintain the Enterprise Repository with architecture revisions
• Assist projects by identifying and managing risks and issues early in the process
• Support the planning, implementation, and migration of applications and infrastructure services
• Oversee architectural governance throughout the design, construction, and operational phases
• Provide direction to technical teams to ensure detailed designs adhere to the target architecture, standards, and patterns
• Ability to work in an Agile environment
• Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Project Managers, Other Vendors and various other Business Stakeholders.
• Analyse business requirements and translate them into technical specifications
• Contribute & expand on established integration principles, patterns and standards that will govern the approach to application and data integration.
• Supporting the implementation and maintenance of integration solutions, ensuring functional and non-functional objectives are met
• Demonstrated knowledge of TOGAF (nice to have)
• Microsoft Azure certifications (nice to have)

Required Skills:

• Extensive experience in creating end-to-end highly available solution designs for Azure cloud
• Knowledge of common programming languages such as C#, Node.js, Java etc.
• Experience in building solution design for mobile apps
• Strong technical acumen in Azure Container Apps, CosmosDB, Service Bus, Blob storage, SQL Server, Entra ID, VNets, WAF, Redis, Event Grid, Azure API Management and DevOps
• Experience with fine/coarse grained APIs and Microservices with emphasis on performance and security.
• Create detailed architecture designs, including system diagrams, data flows, and deployment models
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta or Thales as well as logging and monitoring
• Experience completing and delivering Conceptual and Solution Architecture documents
• Ability to present and communicate both business and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with business and technical requirement analysis, business process modelling/mapping, methodology development, and data mapping.
• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills; ability to design and manage complex cloud infrastructures.
• Knowledge of AWS (nice to have)