Azure Architect

Azure Architect

Location: Remote

Duration: 12 + Months

Interview: Video

Although this position is remote, the first week of employment will be onsite (M-F) for team collaboration efforts. Preferred candidate locations are: New York, Philadelphia, and Alpharetta GA.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical leadership & subject matter expertise to client engagements focusing on complex & innovative products and reusable assets within the context of Azure/Azure Gov Platform services.
• Lead end-to-end solution architecture and design for cloud-based (Azure/Azure Gov) initiatives, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment to business strategy and standards.
• Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise across multiple projects, guiding architecture decisions and driving consensus among cross-functional stakeholders.
• Develop high-level solution overviews and detailed infrastructure designs that balance cost, risk, and quality to support business investment decisions.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, product managers, and vendors to translate business requirements into secure, scalable technical solutions and reusable assets.
• Ensure adherence to architecture standards, security policies, and best practices, while monitoring solution quality and supporting issue resolution across the delivery lifecycle.

Required Skills

• Active Secret clearance preferred, not mandatory. Must be able to obtain a Secret Security clearance.
• Advanced understanding of Azure/Azure Gov (Gateways, Firewalls, Containers, ADO, etc.) architecture.
• Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions for Microsoft-centric solutions based on industry standards using (Azure) IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS capabilities.
• Experience with any claims-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, JIT, and/or RBAC / Ping etc.
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Azure DevOps, Ansible, Puppet, Octopus, Chef, Salt, etc.
• Experience with multi-geography, multi-tier service design and management
• Experience in data movement and transformation technologies
• Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.
• Ability to adopt and relate new technologies to the set of problems we face at EY while adhering to security and other EY standards
• Deep understanding of Application, Infrastructure and security architecture and non-functional aspects like Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Availability, all the so-called -capabilities- of a system
• Good understanding of latest cloud computing and data technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends, and deployment options