Azure Solutions Architect

Job Title: Azure Solutions Architect Job ID: 73226 Location: Brampton (Ontario), St. Anne de Bellevue (MTL), Richmond (BC) or Kanata (Ontario) locations – Hybrid 3 times a week onsite (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday) Overview: Seeking an Azure Solutions Architect to be part of the Business Systems Team working to design, build, and test resilient architectures for existing and new systems hosted on-premises and in third-party IaaS/PaaS/SaaS clouds. What you will be doing: Design, modify, and test technical architecture. Provide supervision and guidance to development teams. Lead the implementation of cloud-based solutions using Azure services such as virtual machines, storage, networking, and security. Align project requirements with technologies that are part of the organization stack to minimize support. Provide an architecture following organization and industry standards. Present architecture to, and get consensus from, various stakeholders including IT, Security, and Project sponsors. Ensure that solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available. Identify and mitigate potential technical issues and risks in solutions. Inform various stakeholders about any issues with the current technical solutions being implemented. Provide updates to stakeholders on product development processes, costs, and budgets. Advise business groups by providing technical and strategic updates that identify and address business issues and opportunities. Participate in the development of best practices and standards for Azure solution development and implementation. Assess and communicate the business impact that certain technical choices have. Provide technical design, coding, testing, implementation, maintenance, system and technical support. Provide on-call support in support of data solutions in production and support source upgrades and hardware/software upgrade projects with impact analysis, fixes, and end-to-end testing. Provide operational support on failures and outages. Assess and implement new technologies by participating in the assessment of tools, software, and technological practices. Stay on top and showcase knowledge of the industry’s latest trends and technologies and propose changes to existing architecture where needed. Create and maintain requirements specifications, design/mapping specifications, and documentation. Collaborate with other teams, team members, and stakeholders. Provide general Systems Analysis and Design support for other Business Systems activities as required. What you must have: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer/Data Science, or a related discipline. 5+ years of experience in Information Technology. 3+ years of experience developing and designing architecture using Azure Services. Experience in end-to-end implementation of Cloud data solutions using Azure including but not limited to Azure Container Apps, Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, Azure Functions, Azure Data Factory, Azure database services, and Power Platform. Relational Database Experience (SQL Server). Critical Thinking, Strong problem-solving, and analytical skills. Highly motivated, enthusiastic, and a positive thinker. Nice to have: Experience with Azure as well as the Power platform. Source control tools (TFS, SVN, GIT, CVS, or equivalent). Windows Azure, Azure DevOps, Gitlab, Azure Resources, Azure Security. Good understanding and ability to apply various processes and Design Patterns. Hands-on experience in Soap/Rest API/web service including hands-on experience in building point-to-point data integrations. Relational Database Experience (SQL Server) – understanding of Data Modeling Concepts (Dimensional and Normalization), knowledge of OLAP structures, SQL Performance Tuning. Understanding different types of storage and working with different kinds of data (structured, unstructured, metrics, logs). Understanding & Conveying Data Models and Data Architecture. Salary/Rate Range: $85,000 – $145,000 annually CAD #J-18808-Ljbffr