Azure Applications Architect

Position: Azure Applications Architect
Location: Toronto, Burlington or London, Ontario
Compensation: $135K–$140K base salary – excellent pension plan and comprehensive benefits; no bonus
Job Type: Permanent
Posting Type: Open vacancy
Working Model: Hybrid – 3 days onsite

Role Overview

We are seeking an Azure Application Cloud Solutions Architect / Technical Lead to design, develop and implement scalable, cloud-native applications and integration solutions within Microsoft Azure and enterprise business systems.

***Please note this is a APPLICATION role vs infrastructure role.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering and architectural capabilities with hands-on experience across Azure services, API development, messaging, application integration and distributed systems. They will play a key role in designing modern cloud applications, modernizing existing applications, integrations, connecting enterprise systems and ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, reliable and aligned with business objectives.

This is an opportunity to provide technical leadership, drive cloud innovation and shape application architecture within a collaborative, mission-driven organization supporting healthcare and public sector services across Canada.

What You’ll Mainly Own:

- Lead the architecture and design of business applications and external customer systems, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
- Translate business and technical requirements into comprehensive functional and technical solutions, including software products, customizations and integrations.
- Architect and implement cloud-based applications using Azure App Services and Azure Functions.
- Work with Azure SQL and Azure Storage to support application data management, persistence and storage requirements.
-Design application integration patterns that enable communication between internal systems, third-party platforms and external services.
- Design and implement scalable applications and services using Microsoft Azure.
- Develop and integrate APIs, RESTful services and enterprise application integrations.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure architectural designs are implemented effectively.
- Ensure applications meet requirements for scalability, availability, performance, security and maintainability.
-Identify opportunities to modernize existing applications and improve system integration through cloud-native technologies.

Other things you will own:
- Oversee the technical implementation of medium to large-scale IT initiatives, ensuring delivery against project plans, timelines, quality standards and business objectives.
- Provide architectural guidance and technical support throughout the solution lifecycle, from planning and design through development, testing and deployment.
- Develop and maintain architectural documentation, technical specifications and end-to-end solution blueprints.
- Design, build and maintain integrations between heterogeneous applications, APIs, databases and cloud-based platforms.
- Support ERP and web developers in creating and maintaining application features and functionality on Microsoft Azure.
- Identify opportunities to improve system scalability, performance, responsiveness, availability and resource utilization.
- Establish and maintain architectural standards, governance practices, development methodologies and technical documentation.
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to establish integration strategies and ensure accurate, consistent information flow between systems.
- Research emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve flexibility, innovation and cost effectiveness.
- Guide software promotion and release processes, helping manage transitions between development and production environments.
- Support cloud migration initiatives, troubleshoot technical issues and contribute to network, database and end-user support for cloud-based platforms.
- Promote DevOps best practices, automation, security, reliability and continuous improvement across Azure environments.

What We’re Looking For:

- A university degree in programming, computer science, database development or administration, or a related discipline.
- 6+ years of equivalent professional experience.
- Microsoft Certified Professional certifications.
- Proven experience designing and implementing scalable, secure cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure.
- Strong ability to translate business requirements into technical architecture and cloud-native application designs.
- Experience leading application architecture, systems integration and deployment initiatives.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud automation.
- Experience modernizing legacy applications and migrating workloads to Azure.
- Experience designing, developing and integrating APIs, including RESTful APIs.
- Experience with messaging technologies, asynchronous communication and event-driven architecture.
- Strong understanding of application integration, system integration and distributed application architectures.
- Experience designing scalable, secure and maintainable cloud-based applications.
- Understanding of microservices architecture and cloud-native development principles.
- Experience working with relational databases and application data storage.
- Knowledge of Azure services, including App Services, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Azure SQL and Storage.
- Understanding of cloud architecture patterns, including microservices, event-driven architecture and serverless computing.
- Experience with cloud security, identity and access management, including Microsoft Entra ID, role-based access control (RBAC) and Zero Trust principles.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation using Azure DevOps, Terraform, ARM templates or Bicep.
- Ability to develop and maintain automated solutions that simplify day-to-day operations.
- Strong analytical skills, including the ability to process computer data, interpret results and ensure data accuracy.
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders, developers and operations teams to deliver end-to-end technical solutions.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership, guide development teams and support architectural governance.

Strong Assets:

- Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect certification.
- Experience guiding migrations from on-premises environments to Azure cloud solutions.
- Knowledge of Azure architecture design principles and best practices.
- Experience defining cloud architecture standards, security controls and compliance frameworks.
- Familiarity with performance monitoring, troubleshooting, cloud cost optimization and reliability engineering.
- Experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and complex business application integrations.
- A track record of researching and implementing emerging technologies to improve system flexibility, scalability and operational efficiency.
- Experience establishing development standards, release management procedures and production deployment controls.

Interested?

If you’re a technically strong Azure professional who enjoys solving complex integration challenges, modernizing enterprise applications and leading cloud architecture initiatives, we’d love to hear from you.

Please send your resume in Word format to Cristina Arsene at [email protected].

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