Azure Cosmos DB Architect

Job Description

Ideal Candidate Profile

• We are looking for someone who can serve as the team's Cosmos DB subject matter expert, providing both strategic architectural guidance and hands-on support for production environments.

• The candidate should have demonstrated success designing scalable, resilient solutions while also helping development teams optimize performance, reliability, and operational excellence.

• Look for experienced Azure Cosmos DB Architect with hands-on development experience along with deep expertise in designing, implementing, and supporting large-scale, mission-critical applications running on Azure Cosmos DB.

• The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building highly available, high-throughput, always-on solutions and be comfortable balancing architecture responsibilities with day-to-day operational support and performance optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize Azure Cosmos DB solutions for high-volume transactional workloads.

• Define and implement data modeling strategies, partition key design, indexing policies, and data lifecycle management.

• Architect highly available, resilient, and scalable solutions leveraging Cosmos DB best practices.

• Monitor and optimize RU consumption, throughput, latency, and overall database performance.

• Troubleshoot production issues, investigate performance bottlenecks, and implement corrective actions.

• Support day-to-day operational activities including deployments, schema evolution, capacity planning, and incident resolution.

• Partner with application, infrastructure, and architecture teams to ensure optimal integration with Azure services.

• Establish disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies.

• Create operational runbooks, documentation, and engineering standards.

• Provide recommendations on cost optimization, scalability, and long-term platform improvements.

Skills Required:

• 7+ years of software engineering and database development experience.

• 3+ years of hands-on Azure Cosmos DB experience in production environments.

• Strong experience with:

o Cosmos DB data modeling and partitioning strategies

o Query optimization and performance tuning

o Throughput management (RU/s optimization)

o Indexing policies and change feed processing

o Multi-region deployment and global distribution

o High availability and disaster recovery patterns

o Monitoring and observability tools

• Experience supporting high-volume, always-on enterprise applications.

• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.

• Experience with Azure services such as Functions, App Services, AKS, Event Hubs, Service Bus, and Application Insights.

• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services or regulated industries.

• Knowledge of microservices architecture and event-driven systems.

• Experience with .NET and/or Java-based applications.

• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.

• Experience establishing governance, operational standards, and performance best practices.