Snr Lead Solutions Architect Azure Delivery

Senior Lead Azure Solutions Architect | Cloud Transformation Delivery

This is a rare chance to step into a senior, customer-facing Azure architecture role where you are not just advising from the sidelines. You will be shaping cloud transformation from the first assessment through design, migration, cutover, go-live, and long-term optimization.

You will join a high-performing cloud delivery team trusted by enterprise customers to solve complex infrastructure, migration, security, and modernization challenges across Azure and hybrid environments. The work is strategic, hands-on, and highly visible. You will be the person customers look to when the path is complex, the stakes are high, and the architecture needs to be right.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Lead Solutions Architect focused on Azure Delivery, you will lead the technical direction for major cloud adoption and migration engagements. You will work with experienced delivery, engineering, sales, and customer teams to turn business goals into secure, scalable, well-architected Azure solutions.

This is ideal for someone who enjoys the full lifecycle: discovery, assessment, design, planning, implementation, and optimization. You will not be limited to slide decks or theory. You will be close to the work, close to the customer, and central to the success of each engagement.

What You’ll Be Doing

You will assess application portfolios and create clear migration strategies for Azure, including TCO models, application dispositions, high-level plans, work breakdown structures, infrastructure designs, architecture diagrams, and Azure Well-Architected reviews.

You will define and own the technical vision for delivery projects, keeping customers, project teams, and internal stakeholders aligned from planning through execution.

You will take a hands-on role in migrations and deployments, helping drive projects through cutover, go-live, and post-migration optimization.

You will create detailed architecture and configuration documentation that customers and delivery teams can rely on.

You will educate customers on Azure services, cloud patterns, anti-patterns, and practical approaches to modernization.

You will partner with delivery and sales teams to shape engagements, estimate level of effort, support statements of work, and improve delivery practices through reusable templates, processes, and project collateral.

What We’re Looking For

You are an Azure expert who can operate at both strategic and technical depth. You can speak confidently with executives, engineers, project teams, and customer stakeholders. You know how to simplify complex decisions without losing the detail that matters.

You will bring:

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification, including AZ-305
• 8+ years of solutions architecture or relevant technical experience
• At least 3 years of public cloud experience
• Hands-on experience with both lift-and-shift and greenfield Azure migrations
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform, with ARM or Bicep also valuable
• Strong knowledge of containerization and DevOps patterns, including AKS, Container Apps, Azure DevOps, GitOps, CI/CD, and related tooling
• Familiarity with identity models across Active Directory, Entra ID, SAML SSO, and hybrid environments
• Strong experience with IP networking, ExpressRoute, VPNs, and cloud connectivity
• Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
• Confidence working across internal teams and customer-facing environments

Background Requirements

You will need one of the following:

• BA/BS degree with 8 years of relevant experience
• MS degree with 6 years of relevant experience
• PhD with 3 years of relevant experience
• Or 12 years of relevant experience without a degree

Highly Desirable Experience

Additional Azure certifications such as AI-102, DP-100, DP-203, AZ-500, or AZ-400 would be a strong advantage.

Experience in professional services, Azure Virtual Desktop, Citrix, Azure Data and AI, security and compliance frameworks such as PCI, HIPAA, CIS, or HITRUST, and multi-cloud environments including AWS, Google Cloud, or VMware would also be valuable.

Industry experience across healthcare, healthtech, financial services, fintech, SaaS, or e-commerce would be especially relevant.

Why This Role Stands Out

This is not a narrow architecture role. It is a senior delivery position for someone who wants ownership, influence, and meaningful technical challenge. You will work on serious cloud transformation projects, solve problems that matter, and help organizations move into Azure with confidence.

For the right person, this is the kind of opportunity that lets you be architect, trusted advisor, technical lead, and transformation partner all at once.