Sr. Azure Solutions Architect - Enterprise

Role Summary

OpsGuru, a Carbon60 Company, is a global engineering and consulting group that helps organizations accelerate digital transformation through cutting-edge technology, deep engineering expertise, and outcome-driven solutions.

The Senior Azure Solutions Architect - Enterprise is responsible for leading the design, governance, and delivery of complex, multi-workload Azure programs. This individual acts as the primary architectural authority supporting customers through cloud strategy, landing zone design, security & compliance, platform engineering, modernization, and migration. The role requires deep cross-domain knowledge, senior stakeholder engagement, and the ability to navigate both technical architecture and executive-level conversations.

Responsibilities

1. Azure Architecture & Design

• Lead enterprise-level Azure architecture across landing zones, identity, networking, security, governance, observability, and workload architecture.
• Author and validate HLDs, LLDs, blueprints, roadmaps, and architectural artifacts.
• Define target state architectures aligned to best practices (CAF, Zero Trust).

1. Program Delivery Leadership

• Provide architectural oversight for large-scale Azure transformation projects (migration, modernization, platform builds).
• Ensure technical integrity, risk mitigation, and alignment with enterprise patterns.
• Guide engineering teams, provide mentorship, perform design reviews, and support escalations.

1. Security, Governance & Compliance

• Define security baselines, RBAC models, IAM controls, encryption, network segmentation, logging, monitoring, and data protection.
• Govern alignment with industry frameworks: SOC2, ISO27001, CIS, NIST, HIPAA, PCI, etc.
• Ensure adherence to Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, and organizational compliance standards.

1. Customer Engagement & Advisory

• Drive architectural decision-making, trade-off discussions, and roadmap alignment.
• Support presales at SME capacity: estimation, solutioning, and SOW definition for new engagements.

1. Delivery Excellence & Coaching

• Provide end-to-end technical leadership throughout the program lifecycle.
• Mentor and upskill engineers and jr. architects within the Azure practice.
• Contribute to internal accelerators, frameworks, best practices, and reusable templates.
• Mentor and upskill engineers and jr. architects within the Azure practice.

Ideal Candidate Background

• Has led at least 3–5 end-to-end enterprise Azure programs, ideally in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, energy, public sector).
• Comes from a consulting, professional services, or systems integrator background (e.g., large SI, large boutique cloud partner)
• Comfortable supporting strategy-to-execution with diverse stakeholder groups (business, security, infra, app teams).
• Strong understanding of cost management, FinOps, governance controls, and cloud operating models.
• Can navigate ambiguity and drive clarity through architectural direction and decision frameworks.

Soft Skills & Leadership Attributes

• Ability to drive consensus and influence senior technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving, risk management, and decision-making capabilities.
• Ownership mindset, high accountability, and ability to lead under pressure.
• Highly structured, documentation-oriented, and detail-focused

Requirements

• 10+ years in cloud architecture, enterprise architecture, or senior infrastructure/application architecture roles.
• 7+ years hands-on Azure experience, including platform design, governance, security, and complex workload migration.
• Proven experience leading multi-workload, enterprise-scale Azure transformation or migration programs.
• Strong background in security, governance, compliance frameworks, and enterprise controls.
• Demonstrated ability to develop Azure landing zones, CAF-aligned architectures, and platform engineering patterns leveraging Infrastucture as Code (Bicep/Terraform).
• Experience with hybrid/on-prem integration, identity federation, networking, BCDR, and cloud security best practices.
• Deep knowledge of Azure-native services across compute, storage, networking, data, identity, and management.

Experience with cloud native

• modernization patterns (containers, microservices (AKS), Azure DevOps, IaC, YAML pipelines, GitOps).
• Prior consulting, professional services, or customer-facing architecture experience required.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.
• Certifications strongly preferred: AZ-305, AZ-500, AZ-700, AZ-104, TOGAF or SABSA (bonus).

Benefits

• Compensation & Perks
• Competitive compensation package (CAD 170K-200K / year)
• Retirement Savings Matching Program (RRSP)
• Partnership with Perkopolis Discounts
• Flexibility & Time Off
• Remote first work environment
• Flexible work hours & location
• Paid parental leave options
• Health & Wellness
• Employer-paid health & dental premiums
• GreenShield+ Counselling Mental Health
• $500 in Health Care Spending Account annually
• Growth & Development
• Training reimbursement (e.g courses on Udemy, Coursera, a-cloud-guru etc.)
• Peer recognition rewards
• At OpsGuru, we encourage employees to bring their whole, authentic selves to work. By sharing and embracing unique backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, we learn from each other, innovate, and create a dynamic environment where we can be and achieve our best.
• We're dedicated to ensuring each member feels a sense of belonging, safety, and respect. At OpsGuru, your unique voice is heard and embraced, and you meaningfully contribute to decision-making and the organization's growth.
• OpsGuru is committed to an equitable employee experience, opportunity, and support. If you require accommodations or support during the recruitment process, please email us at .
• We thank all applicants for their interest in this exciting opportunity. Only candidates that meet the qualifications will be contacted for an interview.