Azure Architect
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About the Role
Lead the design and delivery of secure Azure solutions, ensuring compliance and governance while mentoring teams and managing customer engagements.
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Responsibilities
- Own end to end Azure cloud solution architecture for assigned customer engagements
- Design secure, scalable, and highly available Azure environments including landing zones, subscription structures, networking, identity, security, monitoring, and governance
- Translate business and technical requirements into architecture decisions, HLDs, LLDs, reference designs, and implementation roadmaps
- Lead design discussions across migration, modernisation, hybrid cloud, multi cloud integration, backup, disaster recovery, and resilience
- Work closely with delivery teams to validate build approaches, review technical configurations, and support issue and risk resolution
- Ensure architectures align with enterprise security, compliance, and operational standards, particularly for banking and regulated environments
- Support technical workshops, customer presentations, architecture walkthroughs, and steering discussions
- Contribute to effort estimates, technical proposals, BoM inputs, design assumptions, and solution dependencies where required
- Guide automation and Infrastructure as Code adoption using appropriate tools and reusable patterns
- Mentor engineers and architects while helping to establish repeatable cloud architecture best practices
Requirements
- Strong Azure architecture experience across enterprise scale cloud environments
- Deep knowledge of Azure landing zones, management groups, subscriptions, Azure Policy, RBAC, and Entra ID integration
- Strong Azure networking experience including VNets, peering, Private Link, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, and Load Balancer concepts
- Experience across Azure compute, storage, PaaS data services, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery
- Proven experience producing high level and low level design documentation
- Strong understanding of cloud governance, security baseline design, HA/DR, RTO/RPO driven architecture, and operational handover
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation patterns using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, scripting, and CI/CD principles
- Strong stakeholder management, customer facing communication, and technical leadership skills
- Previous experience working with banking, financial services, or regulated customers would be highly beneficial
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Role Overview
- I am currently supporting a leading organization in Riyadh that is looking to hire a Senior Azure Architect on a permanent basis.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end to end Azure cloud solution architecture for assigned customer engagements.
- Design secure, scalable, and highly available Azure environments, including landing zones, subscription structures, networking, identity, security, monitoring, and governance.
- Translate business and technical requirements into architecture decisions, HLDs, LLDs, reference designs, and implementation roadmaps.
- Lead design discussions across migration, modernisation, hybrid cloud, multi cloud integration, backup, disaster recovery, and resilience.
- Work closely with delivery teams to validate build approaches, review technical configurations, and support issue and risk resolution.
- Ensure architectures align with enterprise security, compliance, and operational standards, particularly for banking and regulated environments.
- Support technical workshops, customer presentations, architecture walkthroughs, and steering discussions.
- Contribute to effort estimates, technical proposals, BoM inputs, design assumptions, and solution dependencies where required.
- Guide automation and Infrastructure as Code adoption using appropriate tools and reusable patterns.
- Mentor engineers and architects while helping to establish repeatable cloud architecture best practices.
Key Skills & Experience Required
- Strong Azure architecture experience across enterprise scale cloud environments.
- Deep knowledge of Azure landing zones, management groups, subscriptions, Azure Policy, RBAC, and Entra ID integration.
- Strong Azure networking experience, including VNets, peering, Private Link, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, and Load Balancer concepts.
- Experience across Azure compute, storage, PaaS data services, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Proven experience producing high level and low level design documentation.
- Strong understanding of cloud governance, security baseline design, HA/DR, RTO/RPO driven architecture, and operational handover.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation patterns using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, scripting, and CI/CD principles.
- Strong stakeholder management, customer facing communication, and technical leadership skills.
- Previous experience working with banking, financial services, or regulated customers would be highly beneficial.
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