Design and enforce architecture and engineering best practices for Azure-based microservices. Create solution artifacts, ensure code quality (CI, testing, reviews), containerize and deploy services to Azure (AKS/Docker), integrate cloud storage/databases/security, and provide technical leadership for GenAI/RAG and API ecosystems.
What will you do?
- As a Technical Architect Implement and enforce engineering best practices using modern standards and patterns
- Create and review architecture and solution design artifacts
- Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc.
- Implement engineering excellence by enforcing regular code reviews, continuous integration, high test code coverage, on-going code refactoring and adequate documentation.
- Architect and develop a scalable and maintainable application by creating self-contained, reusable, and testable Modules and Components.
- Integrate with Azure Cloud for storage, databases, and security.
- Deploy the necessary components as Docker Container to Azure
- Provide thought leadership to the team around new approaches and workflows and technologies
What do we need?
- 10+ years of combined experience showing the breadth of hands-on experience on Azure Cloud and Microservice
- Candidate should have experience with Azure API Management (APIM), Azure App Insights, and Azure Function Apps development
- Candidate should have Azure AI foundry experience - RAG Pipelines, GenAI, LLM Model. Azure AI
- At least 5 years of experience in building Micro services and hands on experience on API documentation tools like Swagger, Swagger Hub.
- At least 4 years of experience with SSO integration with REST Based API with major IAM provider. Along with the SSO Integration, we require deep Understanding of Security Auth Token consumption such as OAUTH, SAML, or JWT Token
- Experience with relational, graph and/or unstructured data technologies such as SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Data
- Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and managing AKS infrastructure
- Experience on Azure API gateway, Azure Data Factory, Azure code commit and Azure Storage Service
- Hands-On experience working on Azure based applications containerization and deployment
- Hands-On experience with connecting Microservices to the Cloud Services such as Cloud based SQL, Storage, NoSQL
- Solid understanding of improving and debugging backend performance bottlenecks.
- Understanding of the use of dependency management and build system for microservices.
- Deep understanding of Azure DevOps process
- Knowledge of authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC
- Experience on analytics tools like Dynatrace, Firebase, Google Analytics
- Any Azure certification like DevOps, Architect will be a Plus
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
Minimum Compensation: USD 49,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 174,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full time employees.
This position is available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post
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