Azure Solutions Architect

The job requires an experienced Azure Solutions Architect with a strong background in Data Engineering to help lead the migration of a large healthcare client in the US from on-premises to Azure Cloud. 

The incumbent should be able to work with a large healthcare customer and provide best-fit solutions and be able to guide the team (cloud engineers, data engineers) technically in delivering those solutions.

Should have had strong implementation experience in workload/data migrations and/or developing large-scale cloud-native applications.

Responsibilities:

• Work independently with technical and business stakeholders to understand business problems and perform due diligence

• Estimate and outline the solution approaches, can express and articulate the architecture and design rationale

• Hands-on in implementing proposed solutions and be able to technically guide extended teams during the development and deployment of the solution

• Has complete technical ownership of the delivery

• Need to have excellent written and verbal communication skills for communicating with customer technically and procedurally

Qualifications:

• Good understanding of Azure Infrastructure services and their limitations

• Especially well versed in data engineering components of Azure Cloud such as Azure Data Lake v2, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Messaging Hub, Events Hub, Azure Synapse.

• Prior experience of working with healthcare clients and using Azure Services such as FHIR API for Healthcare is a major plus. 

• Experience in configuring & monitoring different attributes and handling scale up and scale down scenarios for the application in Azure

• Application monitoring through operations insight, application insight

• Provide best practices around provisioning production and non-production environments on Azure to optimize the usage

• Have good understanding in the implementation of advanced security, authentication and single sign-on across cloud and on-premise

• Strong understanding of the advantages and limitations of Azure Active Directory

• Strong experience in Azure platform Services, understanding of their capabilities and limitations and being able to architect and deliver solutions leveraging various platform services

• Have experience in implementing enterprise application using platform services like azure websites, Azure SQL, Azure Service Bus, notification hubs, event hubs, stream analytics, Document Db, application insights etc.,

• Strong expertise in building cloud-native enterprise-scale applications and moving applications from on-premises to cloud environments

• Strong understanding of the cloud architecture patterns and solution design principles

• Strong understanding of different attributes for cloud application availability, scalability and ability to propose an optimized design for cloud

• Performance tuning of cloud-based applications for best performance

• Experience in defining and implementing Hybrid scenarios with workloads shared across on-premise and Microsoft Azure, application Integration between cloud and on-premise environments

• Collaborating with customers for quick technical assessment and proposal development for leveraging platform services of azure

• Closely work with the customer to understand the business objectives and define solutions to meet the business objectives

• Experienced in working in an agile/DevOps environment with continuous integration and continuous deployment and application lifecycle management

• Candidate should be from an application development and solution architecture background and have expertise in building large scale web applications before the cloud experience.

Required certification is: Azure Solutions Architect Expert and/or Azure Data Engineer Associate

Years of experience required for the position:

• 5+ years of experience in designing, developing and deploying solutions in Microsoft technology stack including large scale data engineering and/or web application deployment experience

• 3-5 years of experience in designing and deploying solutions on Microsoft Azure platform and experience in workload migrations.