Cloud Architect - Azure

Job Title: Cloud Architect - Azure

Location: Chicago, IL

Salary Range: $150,000 - $190,000

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401k, Life Insurance

Job Description

As a Cloud Architect, you will collaborate with business, functional, and technical teams to design and implement solutions that align with organizational goals. You will ensure that solutions are optimized for performance, cost, and compliance, while maintaining high standards of data governance and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct design reviews of existing and proposed architectures.
• Develop reference architectures and standards to enable efficient and effective solution delivery.
• Design scalable, cost-effective solutions with a focus on performance optimization.
• Build automation frameworks to ensure consistency and reusability.
• Create detailed architectural documentation and communicate design decisions to stakeholders, developers, and business sponsors in actionable and clear terms.
• Implement architecture to enforce data governance policies, including data quality, lineage, and metadata management.
• Identify potential technical risks early and escalate them to management as needed.
• Publish best practices and standards for data integration, transformation, and consumption.
• Optimize data storage and retrieval processes for performance and cost-efficiency.
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Architecture community to define and advance target architectures.
• Stay informed about the latest trends in data and analytics technologies and assess their potential to drive business objectives.
• Develop strategies to migrate on-premises infrastructure to cloud-native solutions.
• Drive efficient cloud automation processes for maintenance and migration activities.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring effective implementation of solutions.
• Offer technical support to IT teams and stakeholders to maintain optimal functionality of cloud-based solutions.

Required Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in Data Warehousing, Data Engineering, and Analytics.
• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Data Architecture (preferably Azure).

Required Skills:

• Strong team collaboration skills with a self-motivated and detail-oriented mindset.
• Demonstrated enthusiasm for emerging technologies and innovative solutions.
• Experience designing and implementing solutions using the Azure suite, including Azure AKS, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Azure ADLS, Azure SQL, and Azure DevOps.
• Extensive experience in creating and supporting progressive information management solutions and end-to-end SDLC processes.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with a confident, methodical approach to problem-solving.
• Proven ability to define objectives and measure success using qualitative and quantitative metrics.
• Hands-on experience provisioning and managing Azure infrastructure through automation.
• Experience in migrating applications to the Azure cloud environment.

Brilliant Staffing, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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