Azure Solutions Architect

JOB DESCRIPTION

Join the team working on robotics, satellite systems and geo intelligence with a major Canadian aerospace company

Description:

•Design, modify and test technical architecture.

•Provide supervision and guidance to development teams.

•Lead the implementation of cloud-based solutions using Azure services such as virtual machines, storage, networking, and security.

•Align project requirements with technologies that are part of the organization stack to minimize support.

•Provide an architecture following organization and industry standards.

•Present architecture to, and get consensus from, various stakeholders including IT, Security and Project sponsors.

•Ensure that solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available

•Identifying and mitigating potential technical issues and risks in solutions

•Inform various stakeholders about any issues with the current technical solutions being implemented.

•Provide updates to stakeholders on product development processes, costs and budgets

•Advise business groups by providing technical and strategic updates that identify and address business issues and opportunities.

•Participate in the development of best practices and standards for Azure solution development and implementation.

•Assess and communicate the business impact that certain technical choices have.

•Provide technical design, coding, testing, implementation, maintenance, system and technical support.

•Provide on-call support in support of data solutions in production and support source upgrades, Hardware/Software upgrade projects with impact analysis, fixes and end-to-end testing.

•Provide operational support on failures and outages.

•Assess and Implement new technologies by participating in the assessment of tools, software, and technological practices

•Stay on top and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies and propose changes to existing architecture where needed.

•Create and maintain requirements specifications, design/mapping specifications and documentation.

•Collaborate with other teams, team members and stakeholders

•Provide general Systems Analysis and Design support for other Business Systems activities as required

Notes:

- build and test resilient architectures for existing and new systems hosted on-premises and in third party IaaS/PaaS/SaaS clouds.

- the solution is an interactive dashboard

- knows enough about data lakes and analytics to say what the solution is as they would have the high level vision on what is required

- when it comes to integration, they will need to know cybersecurity area to know what is high risk and how to move the data by providing a solution where security is the high priority

- Needs to be a solution architect who has enough knowledge of everything that happens in Azure

Skills:

azure, git, sql, Azure data factory, subnet, azure storage, azure functions, Power platform, Azure container, kubernetes, DevOps, gitlab, rest api, Azure Security, cyber security, networking

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

1) Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer/Data Science or related discipline

2) 3+ years of experience in developing and designing architecture using AZURE

3) Overall minimum 5+ years of experience in Information Technology

4) Need to have a strong understanding of end-to end implementation of Cloud data solutions using Azure including but not limited to Azure Container Apps, Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, Azure Functions, Azure Data Factory, Azure database services and Power Platform

- this is required in order to recommend the right solution

5) Need to know how Relational Database behaves with SQL Server database

- required to provide the right solution

6) Need to know GIT

7) Experience with network security (i.e. subnet)

Preferred Skills

•Experience with Azure as well as Power platform

•Source control tools (TFS, SVN, GIT, CVS or equivalent)

•Windows Azure, Azure DevOps, Gitlab, Azure Resources, Azure Security

•Good understanding and ability to apply various process and Design Patterns

•Hands on experience in Soap/Rest API/web service including hands on experience in building point-to-point data integrations

•Relational Database Experience (SQL Server) - understanding of Data Modeling Concepts (Dimensional and Normalization), knowledge of OLAP structures, SQL Performance Tuning

•Understanding of different types of storage and working with different kinds of data (structured, unstructured, metrics, logs)

•Understanding & Conveying of Data Models and Data Architecture

Paid Vacation + STAT holidays + Benefits through Manulife + Access to free upskilling courses through Udemy + Additional savings through Perkopolis

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