Principal Azure Architect - Remote / Telecommute

Requirement/Must Have:

• Extensive experience designing and deploying distributed systems and cloud environments.
• Strong expertise in Azure cloud architecture and hybrid cloud management.
• Deep understanding of identity and access management, encryption, and cloud-native security controls.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and DevSecOps practices.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Seven plus years of experience designing and deploying distributed systems or cloud environments.
• Five plus years of experience in cloud architecture or engineering.

• Design and implement a unified cloud architecture across Azure and hybrid environments.
• Guide adoption of cloud-native services including compute, storage, networking, container, and serverless solutions.
• Ensure architectures support high availability, monitoring, disaster recovery, backup, and cost optimization strategies.
• Partner with security teams to design and maintain secure, compliant cloud environments.
• Develop security frameworks and guardrails to ensure workload resilience.
• Implement identity protection, conditional access, multifactor authentication, and privileged identity management.
• Collaborate on identity lifecycle management and hybrid identity integration.
• Architect platforms that support data interoperability and AI/ML initiatives.
• Advocate for healthcare data standards and scalable data storage strategies.
• Evaluate and determine appropriate platforms including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, or container-based solutions.
• Lead application assessments, migration strategies, and modernization planning.
• Oversee migration execution, pilots, and proof-of-concepts.
• Provide guidance on DevOps and DevSecOps practices, automation, and cloud-native technologies.
• Mentor engineering teams on infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and security automation.
• Provide oversight on financial optimization and cost management.
• Collaborate with clinical, research, business, security, infrastructure, and executive stakeholders.
• Mentor teams and promote continuous learning and innovation.

• Experience with healthcare interoperability standards.
• Experience with container orchestration platforms.
• Relevant cloud, security, or architecture certifications.

• Azure cloud architecture.
• Hybrid cloud design.
• Identity and access management.
• Cloud security and compliance.
• Infrastructure-as-code.
• DevSecOps and automation.
• Data interoperability.
• Cloud migration and modernization.
• Financial optimization and cost management.

• Bachelor s degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.
• Relevant professional certifications preferred.