Solution / Azure Architect

Job Title: Solution / Azure Architect
Job ID: 26-09RHT-021
Client: South Dakota Department of Health (SD DOH)
Location: South Dakota (U.S.-based and willing to support SD onsite architecture sessions as needed)
Project Duration: 1 year initial term, with up to four additional one-year extensions. (Proposed start date: October 9, 2026) Project Overview

The South Dakota Department of Health (SD DOH) is developing a publicly accessible, cloud-based Rural Health Data Atlas. This platform will consolidate health data from South Dakota health agencies and public sources into a centralized Azure cloud-based environment featuring maps, charts, tables, and point-and-click analysis.

Job Summary

Own the Year 1 solution and Azure architecture for a State-owned Rural Health Data Atlas, translating business, data, security and operational requirements into an implementable Azure PaaS design that supports the MVP and a sustainable five-year foundation.

Key Responsibilities

• Define logical, physical, deployment, data, integration and operational architecture for the State-owned Azure environment.
• Design environment structure, network/security boundaries, configuration portability and promotion pathways.
• Define layered/medallion data architecture and reusable ingestion/curation patterns.
• Design State SSO/OIDC, RBAC and State API Management integration patterns with the Security Lead.
• Define observability, logging, monitoring, backup, recovery, resiliency, scalability and performance patterns.
• Produce system, solution, data-flow, deployment and integration diagrams and architecture decisions.
• Coordinate Azure tenant, APIM, identity and environment dependencies with BIT.
• Guide developers/data engineers on implementation standards and review technical work products.
• Support technical readiness, performance, UAT and go-live reviews.
• Document architecture, configuration and transition information for State operations.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of solution/cloud architecture experience, including 4+ years with Microsoft Azure.
• Hands-on experience designing Azure PaaS architectures for secure enterprise or public-sector applications.
• Strong data-platform architecture experience, including data lakes/lakehouses, relational stores, ETL/ELT and API integration.
• Experience with OAuth/OIDC, RBAC, APIM, CI/CD, monitoring, backup/recovery and environment configuration.
• Ability to create clear logical/physical/data/security/integration diagrams and architecture decision records.
• Experience guiding delivery teams through architecture implementation and production readiness.
• U.S.-based and willing to support South Dakota onsite architecture sessions as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• State/local government or healthcare data-platform architecture experience.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Fabric, Databricks, Azure SQL, Storage/Data Lake, Key Vault, Monitor/Application Insights or comparable Azure services.
• Experience designing for Power BI, Esri, Tableau and standards-based APIs.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and infrastructure/configuration automation.

Primary Skills for Ceipal Database Search:

Azure Solutions Architect, Azure PaaS, Data Platform Architecture, Data Lakehouse, ETL / ELT, API Integration, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, CI/CD, OAuth / OIDC, RBAC, APIM, Power BI Integration, Azure DevOps, Healthcare Data Architecture.