Azure Technical Architect

Role : Azure Technical Architect

duration : Long Term Contact

Location : Seattle WA (Onsite)

The Lead Solution Architect will own the end-to-end architecture, design, and governance of the Virtual Lab platform hosted on Microsoft Azure. This role is responsible for defining scalable, secure, supportable, and automated cloud solutions that enable rapid provisioning of isolated lab environments while aligning with enterprise architecture, security, and operational standards.

The architect will work closely with engineering, DevOps, cloud operations, testing, security, networking, and application teams to establish a robust platform capable of supporting multiple store topologies, environments, and business use cases.

Key Responsibilities:

Own the end-to-end technical architecture and ensure the Virtual Lab solution is scalable, secure, supportable, and aligned with enterprise standards:

Define the end-to-end Virtual Lab solution architecture across Azure infrastructure, networking, compute, storage, security, deployment automation, testing, and observability.

• Design the target Azure environment, including subscriptions, resource groups, virtual networks, subnets, network security groups, private endpoints, Bastion, Key Vault, monitoring, and outbound connectivity.
• Define Infrastructure-as-Code standards using Terraform and/or Bicep, including reusable modules, naming standards, tagging, and configuration patterns.
• Establish architecture principles for reusable store recipes, environment isolation, versioned bundles, repeatable deployment, and automated teardown.
• Define integration patterns for source repositories, artifact stores, CI/CD pipelines, test frameworks, store configurations, and peripheral emulators.
• Ensure security, access control, data isolation, auditability, cost controls, and environment-retention requirements are incorporated into the design.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical decision-making, risk identification, and resolution of cross-platform dependencies.
• Provide technical guidance to engineering, DevOps, cloud automation, testing, and application-development teams.
• Maintain solution architecture, deployment-design documents, integration specifications, and architecture decision records.
• Support MVP validation and provide recommendations for scaling the solution to additional store topologies, markets, and use cases.

Mandatory Skills:

Azure Cloud Architecture

• Terraform/Bicep (Infrastructure as Code)
• Azure Networking & Security
• Azure DevOps / CI-CD Automation
• Enterprise Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership

Preference Skills:

Kubernetes (AKS), Docker, Helm

• SRE, Monitoring & Observability
• Cloud Cost Optimization (FinOps)
• Microservices & API Architecture
• Retail/POS/Virtual Lab Domain Experience