Overview
On Site
Depends on Experience
Full Time
Skills
Azure
AKS
Job Details
Title :- Azure Architect
Location: Cincinnati Ohio (day 1 onsite)
Job Description
Role Summary
Key Responsibilities
- Leadership: Define scope, roadmaps, budgets, and governance; run Agile/Scaled Agile ceremonies.
- Architecture & Delivery Oversight: Lead discovery and solution design across Azure landing zones, network/security, data, app modernization, and automation; review HLD/LLD and operational runbooks.
- Azure Platform Execution: Guide teams implementing AKS, App Service, Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Event Hub/Service Bus, Storage/ADLS Gen2, Data Factory / Databricks / Synapse, Key Vault, Monitor/ enforce Azure WellArchitected principles.
- Cost & Reliability : Track usage/cost, rightsizing, reservations; error budgets, capacity planning; incident/problem/change management.
- Copilot Studio Leadership: Translate business use cases into copilots; design topics/flows, prompts, actions/plugins; ground responses securely (Graph, SharePoint, Dataverse); integrate with Teams and LOB systems via connectors; establish telemetry, evaluation, and lifecycle management; drive Responsible AI guardrails and rollout/adoption.
- Stakeholder & Vendor Management: Align product owners, architects, security, data, and operations; report to executive sponsors with clear metrics and insights.
Minimum Qualifications
- 12+ years in technical project management owning cloud programs (preferably Azure) and crossfunctional engineering teams.
- Handson experience with Azure services ( 3 of: AKS, Functions, App Service, ADF/Databricks/Synapse, Postgress SQL, Event Hub/Service Bus, Key Vault, Monitor/Log Analytics).
- Practical exposure to Microsoft Copilot Studio or Power Platform (Power Apps/Automate), designing and shipping copilots/bots integrated with enterprise systems.
- Agile/Scaled Agile leadership, excellent stakeholder management and communication.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certifications: AZ305 (Solutions Architect Expert) or equivalent.
- Experience with Azure OpenAI Service, prompt design/evaluation, and Responsible AI policies.
- Experience modernizing monoliths to microservices, eventdriven architectures, and data platforms on Azure.
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