Azure Integration Architect

Title: Azure Integration Architect
Location: Chicago, IL 
Duration: Long term

Hybrid

Skills:
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Azure Integration Architect to lead the architecture, setup, and implementation of a new enterprise integration platform for a strategic client engagement in the Life Sciences domain. The role requires strong expertise in Microsoft Azure Integration Services, cloud infrastructure, platform provisioning, DevOps engineering, CI/CD automation, and enterprise integration architecture, along with the ability to assess and modernize the existing TIBCO integration landscape.
The architect will own the technical blueprint for establishing a secure, scalable, resilient, and operationally mature integration platform on Azure. This includes defining the target-state architecture, provisioning Azure services and environments, establishing infrastructure-as-code practices, implementing deployment pipelines, and integrating the platform with enterprise tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, SonarQube, source control, and monitoring solutions.
The role will also guide the coexistence and phased migration of existing TIBCO integrations to Azure Integration Services, ensuring business continuity, consistent governance, and controlled modernization.
This is a client-facing, onsite architecture role requiring strong technical leadership, executive communication, and the ability to work across enterprise architecture, infrastructure, security, operations, and delivery teams.

Required Skills and Experience:
15 years of overall IT experience, with substantial experience in enterprise integration architecture, cloud platform engineering, and integration modernization.
Strong hands-on architecture experience with Microsoft Azure and Azure Integration Services.
Proven experience designing and establishing enterprise integration platforms from the ground up.
Strong expertise in Azure APIM, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs, and related integration capabilities.
Experience with Azure subscriptions, resource organization, networking, private endpoints, identity, access management, Key Vault, and environment provisioning.
Strong experience with Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or equivalent infrastructure-as-code technologies.
Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
Experience integrating ServiceNow, Jira, SonarQube, source control, monitoring, and other enterprise tools into delivery and operational workflows.
Strong understanding of API-led connectivity, REST/SOAP services, messaging, event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems.
Experience with API security, OAuth 2.0, certificates, TLS/mTLS, managed identities, secrets management, and enterprise network security.
Expertise in logging, monitoring, distributed tracing, alerting, performance management, and production support readiness.
Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, resiliency, scalability, and cloud cost optimization.
Experience with TIBCO BusinessWorks 5.x/6.x, BWCE, EMS, Rendezvous, adapters, and TIBCO administration tools.
Experience assessing legacy integrations and defining migration strategies from TIBCO to Azure Integration Services.
Ability to lead architecture decisions, resolve technical dependencies, and establish engineering standards for distributed teams.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and client-facing presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications
Experience in Life Sciences, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, or other regulated enterprise environments.
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent Azure certification.
TIBCO architecture or development certifications.
Experience with enterprise platform engineering, landing-zone integration, cloud governance, and Azure Policy.
Experience with automated security scanning, infrastructure compliance, software composition analysis, and DevSecOps practices.
Exposure to Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), containers, and microservices where relevant to the integration architecture.
Experience with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or equivalent observability platforms.
Experience managing global delivery teams and onsite-offshore delivery models.
Exposure to pre-sales, solution estimation, consulting, and multi-year modernization programs.

Thanks & Regards,

Naresh

Global IT Family

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