Title: Azure Architect
Location: Washington, DC (Onsite/Hybrid from day 1st)
Position: Full Time

Job description:

The Azure Architect shall specialize in computing workload design. Primary focus will be on creating robust and efficient solutions for compute-intensive workloads within the Azure cloud environment involving architecture design, resource allocation, high-performance computing, serverless and event-driven architecture, security and compliance, monitoring, and troubleshooting. designing micro front-end patterns, ensuring seamless integration across components and services. Technical architect will be leveraging React and related libraries (e.g., Redux, Flux, Webpack) for efficient UI development. Prior experience working as a solution architect involving Azure cloud is a must.

The roles & responsibilities include the following.

· Collaborate with stakeholders to understand workload requirements, performance expectations, and scalability needs.

· Design compute architectures that optimize resource utilization, minimize latency, and enhance overall system performance.

· Consider factors such as virtual machines (VMs), containers, serverless computing, and batch processing.

· Determine the appropriate compute resources (VM sizes, instance types, etc.) based on workload characteristics.

· Balance cost-effectiveness with performance requirements.

· Implement auto-scaling strategies to handle varying workloads.

· Be capable of designing for High availability and fault tolerance.

· Optimize parallel processing, GPU utilization, and distributed computing.

· Ensure efficient data movement and synchronization.

· Be capable of designed transactional compute patterns with compensation patterns

· Explore serverless computing options (Azure Functions, Logic Apps, etc.) for event-driven workloads.

· Design event-driven workflows that respond dynamically to triggers.

· Leverage Azure Event Grid and Azure Event Hubs.

· Integrate security best practices into compute designs.

· Implement access controls, encryption, and network segmentation.

· Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

· Define monitoring metrics for compute resources.

· Set up alerts, logging, and diagnostics.

· Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and optimize resource utilization.

· Design compute workloads utilizing networking components and micro segmentation

· Familiarity with IAM, Azure Policy and Private Link configuration

· Provide a long-term vision for the platform, considering changes in technology within the context of ITS current implementation and our feature roadmap.

· In-depth understanding of the business environment, its processes and complexities of the organization and apply the knowledge towards the proposed work program.

· Design and validate solutions that are practical, flexible, resilient, scalable, reusable, and strategic.

· Promote component-based development, emphasizing reusability and consistency.

· Recognize and identify potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change, or where new ones need to be developed, especially regarding future business expansion.

· Present, discuss, and walk through the merits of the solutions recommendations with a group of enterprise architects.

· Institute and lead the adoption of best practices and standards, to improve the quality of the deliverables.

· Ensure best practices are adhered to in the adoption of new technologies.

· Architect solutions across multiple IT environments and Business system components, envision solution for projects / programs / applications.

· Research, evaluate, and select from existing and emerging technologies the options best fitting business and IT strategic needs.

· Work closely with development teams, bridging the gap between design and implementation.

· Facilitate knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

· Interact with other Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Platform teams to ensure that solutions are built in adherence with the defined enterprise standards.

· Manage daily technical challenges and communicate with management if there are any risks or issues.

· Well-versed in the latest technologies and tools being used to improve IT development and delivery.

· Coordinate effort within different IT groups like Enterprise Architecture, Office of Information Security, Data Management Office as and when needed.

· Understanding of security best practices and standards.

· Work with stakeholders to offer contextualized technology strategies, solutions and roadmaps which are aligned to their business needs.

· Document key artifacts related to WBG application environments, integration platforms, data flows, application inventories, entity-relationships, and process workflows.

· Help build supporting frameworks for on-premises, mobile, cloud-native and hybrid solution architecture approaches and implementations aligned with specific business application requirements and constraints.

· Identify the area in the architecture and design that are contributing towards technical Debt and provide recommendations to remediate same.

· Work with other enterprise architecture team to align various solutions architecture to enterprise standard, reference architecture, patterns, and best practices.

· Identify technology trends which have the potential for the World Bank to accelerate the use of innovative digital platforms and/or hosting solutions.

· Develop target-state guidance (reusable standards, guidelines, individual parts, and configurations) for evolving the technical infrastructure across the enterprise, to enable business strategy and deliver business outcomes.

SKILLS / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

· About 8 years of experience in architecting/designing compute-intensive solutions with Azure

· Preferable certification: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

· Proven track record of developing Azure architecture for large-scale, production-grade applications

· In-depth knowledge of Azure compute services (VMs, Azure Web-Apps, App Services, Logic Apps Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Batch, etc.).

· Familiarity with orchestration tools (Azure Resource Manager, Terraform, etc.).

· Understanding of hybrid cloud scenarios

· Ability to deliver functionality incrementally adopting agile practices

· Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)

· Experience with IT projects in the Financial Industry

· Experience with IT projects utilizing multiple technologies and frameworks, particularly agile/hybrid agile.

· Excellent problem-solving skills.

· Strong communication and collaboration abilities.

· Staying informed about emerging front-end technologies and trends.

· Deep knowledge and experience of Microsoft Azure cloud platforms and services in an enterprise environment. Experience with IaaS/PaaS cloud architectures and patterns (e.g., horizontal scaling, immutability, 12-factor design).

· Prior experience with leading cloud native solution development initiatives.

· Experience with delivering effective strategies for cloud integration.

· Experience designing and implementing CI/CD toolchains leveraging Microsoft TFS, Git/SVN, Chef, Jenkins, etc. Experience with cloud infrastructure and application templates (e.g., Azure Resource Manager).

· Familiarity with micro-frontends, implementing microservices and container-based architectures and deployments (e.g., Docker, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes).

· Prior success in designing cloud applications, supporting changes to development, testing, deployment, migration/transformation, and configuration management processes consistent with a DevOps approach.

· Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to define technology roadmaps and evaluate total-cost-of-ownership of solutions.

· Experience evaluating cloud service designs and alternatives to achieve desired balance of performance, risk, and cost.

· Familiarity with deployment patterns/strategy (blue/green, canary, rolling, draining)

· Experience managing programs and/or multiple projects, including simultaneous task assignments.

· Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with all management levels.

· Strong documentation, analytical and problem-solving skills

· Organized, agile, persistent, and proactive. Ability to work on multiple tasks within tight deadlines.

· Ability to learn new technologies quickly, self-starters and motivated, and able to work with others, and communicate effectively.

· Actively seeks knowledge needed to complete assignments and shares knowledge with others, communicating and presenting information in a clear and organized manner.

· Delivers information effectively in support of team or workgroup. Good writing and editing skills, with a strong command of English and an ability to convey complex ideas in a clear, direct, and lively format.

· Able to take personal responsibility and accountability for timely response to client queries, requests or needs, working to remove obstacles that may impede execution or overall success.

· Collaborate closely with development teams, ensuring that compute designs align with application requirements.

· Stay informed about Azure updates and emerging technologies related to compute workloads

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $120,000.00 - $125,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance

Experience level:

• 11 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Azure Architect: 5 years (Required)
• Azure: 10 years (Required)
• VMs, Web-Apps, App Services, Logic Apps, Kubernetes,: 8 years (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Washington, DC 20024 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Washington, DC 20024: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person