APPS-Solution Architect

Key Responsibilities

Cloud strategies and presales experience with Consulting background.

Solution Design & Shaping: Creating high-level technical designs (HLD) and defining Azure infrastructure, PaaS, and DevOps strategies (e.g., Azure DevOps, Terraform).

Client Engagement: Acting as the technical lead in sales meetings, leading workshops, and conducting presentations.

RFP/RFI Response: Developing technical proposals, Statements of Work (SOW), and cost estimations (ROM).

Proof of Concept (PoC): Designing and running PoCs to demonstrate value.

Cloud Strategy: Assisting clients with migration strategies and hybrid cloud adoption.

Strategic Architecture: Develop, maintain, and promote enterprise cloud strategies and technology roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business needs.

Design & Governance: Design secure, resilient, and scalable Azure solutions (compute, network, storage, security). Establish governance frameworks (Azure Policies/Blueprints) to enforce standards.

Cloud Migration: Lead migration strategies, transforming on-premises workloads to Azure.

Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with stakeholders to align technology with business strategies and lead technical teams in implementation.

Best Practices: Advise on best practices for DevOps, automation, and operational optimization.

Risk Management: Evaluate technologies to identify potential technical issues and risks.

Technical Expertise: Expert knowledge of Azure services (ARM templates, Azure Networking, Iaas/PaaS), hybrid cloud architecture, and security protocols.

Solution Design & Strategy: Translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and resilient Azure cloud solutions.

Application Modernization: Lead migration of legacy applications to Azure PaaS platforms.

Technical Governance: Define architectural standards, best practices, and patterns for development teams.

Cloud Infrastructure: Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for deploying resources.

Security & Compliance: Integrate security measures (identity management, data protection) throughout the application lifecycle.

Collaboration: Partner with DevOps, Data, and Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure successful project delivery.

Leadership: Experience leading teams, defining technical direction, and delivering presentations to executive leadership.

Azure Expertise: Deep knowledge of Azure services (App Service, Azure Functions, SQL Database, Kubernetes, etc.).

Architectural Knowledge: Experience designing distributed systems, microservices, and serverless architectures.

Programming & Scripting: Proficiency in C#, .NET, Python, or PowerShell.

DevOps Experience: Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools, preferably Azure DevOps.

Certifications:

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

Experience: Proven experience in IT infrastructure, cloud migration, and enterprise application development.

• Ensuring solution architectures conform to enterprise architecture principles, standards, and strategy.
• Leading the creation of the enterprise architecture capability.
• Understanding the business's economic and financial levers that are susceptible to digital transformation, to effectively support and guide technology investment decisions.
• Demonstrating business value of enterprise architecture.
• Developing and presenting business capability models and roadmaps to facilitate discussion and decision making.
• Leading a team to design and build the application that has been architected.
• Discussing the overall business plan with clients and what areas can be improved that might streamline a business or process.
• Plan execute and monitor end-to-end migrations from Azure DevOps to GitHub using GitHub Enterprise Importer GEI or equivalent tools
• Validate migration logs postmigration to ensure completeness and accuracy of repositories issues pull requests and metadata
• Identify and reclaim mannequins to ensure proper user attribution
• Troubleshoot and resolve migration errors and warnings
• Collaborate with development teams to verify repository integrity and CICD workflows postmigration
• Maintain documentation of migration activities including logs validation checklists and remediation steps
• Coordinate with GitHub support and internal stakeholders for escalations and advanced troubleshooting
• Hands on web application development skills in any of NET,JAVA,NodeJS,Python
• Handson experience in deploying applications on at least two of Azure cloud PaaS services Azure App Service Azure Function Azure Kubernetes Service Azure Container Instance
• Primary database skills like database connectivity configurations etc
• Well versed with containerizing web application frontend and web services
• Should know the nitty-gritties of hosting containerized application on Kubernetes
• Ability to analyze application dependencies
• Ability to analyze the application configuration issues
• Experience in setting up Log Analytics setup using Azure services