About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Azure Solution Architect based in Canada.
Responsibilities
- Assess business and technical requirements for new corporate applications and platforms built on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric, translating them into practical architectural recommendations.
- Design and recommend secure, scalable, and reliable deployment architectures for internal business platforms and artificial intelligence-enabled solutions.
- Evaluate and refine production architecture proposals involving PostgreSQL 16, pgvector, Neo4j, Docker, and modern containerized deployment models.
- Advise on cloud infrastructure, security, governance, identity, access management, and cost optimization within enterprise Microsoft cloud environments.
- Contribute to the architecture of a secure R&D artificial intelligence assistant that combines internal knowledge, quality documentation, SharePoint content, and approved external publications.
- Define solution patterns that protect confidential know-how and intellectual property while enabling accurate, secure, and reliable access to technical information.
- Collaborate with customer stakeholders and technical specialists to develop implementation plans, platform recommendations, architecture decisions, and future technology roadmaps.
- Identify opportunities to improve products, processes, and solution architectures through proactive analysis and creative technical recommendations.
Requirements
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or a related discipline, with at least five years of relevant professional experience.
- Bring senior-level experience in Microsoft Azure architecture, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise solution design.
- Demonstrate strong knowledge of application architecture, cloud security, governance, identity and access management, and cost management within Microsoft cloud environments.
- Have experience designing solutions involving PostgreSQL, containerized deployments, and modern cloud platform architecture patterns.
- Possess a solid understanding of Microsoft Fabric, data platforms, and architectures supporting analytics, knowledge retrieval, or artificial intelligence-driven applications.
- Understand how to protect sensitive data, confidential information, and intellectual property within enterprise technology environments.
- Demonstrate strong consulting, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into clear and practical technical recommendations.
- Be customer-oriented, communicative, positive, and comfortable working collaboratively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Show strong logical reasoning, problem-solving, organization, and attention to quality while managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Be responsible, autonomous, resourceful, proactive, and comfortable taking initiative in an evolving technology environment.
- Be authorized to work in Canada and able to perform the role remotely from within Canada.
Conditions
- Fully remote work from within Canada, providing flexibility while supporting a customer-focused consulting environment.
- Opportunity to work on large-scale digital transformation and cloud architecture initiatives using Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric.
- Exposure to advanced artificial intelligence, knowledge retrieval, data platforms, and secure enterprise AI solutions.
- Opportunity to work with modern technologies including PostgreSQL, pgvector, Neo4j, Docker, and Microsoft cloud services.
- Collaboration with experienced technology specialists and customer stakeholders on complex architecture and implementation challenges.
- A collaborative, transparent, and people-focused environment built around trust, open communication, cooperation, and professional growth.
- Opportunities to develop expertise through challenging projects involving emerging technologies and evolving enterprise platforms.
- Strong emphasis on work-life balance, autonomy, and creating an environment where professionals can perform at their best.