Solutions Architect

Nordis Technologies is seeking a highly skilled, hands-on Solutions Architect to lead our transition from a private cloud environment into a modern, cloud-optimized Azure ecosystem. This role is critical to accelerating our platform modernization, enabling cloud-native capabilities, and strengthening our engineering velocity through automation and AI-native development patterns.

The Solutions Engineer will enable the following:

• Accelerated migration from private cloud to Azure
• A scalable, resilient, modern application platform
• Faster engineering velocity through CI/CD, automation, and AI-native practices
• A unified cloud architecture enabling future innovation and business scale

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end migration strategy from private cloud into Microsoft Azure, including assessment, gap analysis, roadmap creation, and phased execution

• Architect Azure-native solutions leveraging services such as App Service, ACA, Azure Functions, Storage, Networking, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid, and Key Vault

• Drive containerization strategy (Docker), ensuring applications are cloud-optimized and scalable

• Modernize legacy .NET and C# applications into modern, decoupled, cloud-optimized architectures

• Implement domain-driven design (DDD), microservices, and modular patterns

• Guide teams through refactoring, re-platforming, and re-architecting to improve performance and maintainability

• Establish modernization best practices and reference patterns

• Write and review C#, .NET, and IaC deliverables

• Build POCs, frameworks, and accelerators that guide engineering teams

• Mentor developers in cloud-native and AI-native development

• Partner with DevOps to modernize CI/CD pipelines

• Integrate Azure AI PaaS solutions into application workflows

• Promote AI-driven code generation, testing automation, and development accelerators

• Define target architectures, patterns, and guardrails

• Support cost optimization, performance, resiliency, and observability strategies

• Collaborate with Security/Compliance on alignment to policy

• Provide oversight for modernization workstreams

Required Qualifications

• 7 years of hands-on software engineering with C#, .NET, and modern frameworks

• 5 years designing Azure solutions in enterprise settings

• Deep experience with application containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)

• Experience modernizing workloads from IaaS to Azure PaaS

• Strong understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture, distributed systems

• Experience with Terraform/Bicep, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Redis, Blob Storage

• Demonstrated AI-native development experience using Azure OpenAI and automation tools

Strong communicator with ability to translate complex concepts

• Collaborative leader with influence across engineering and product teams

• Strategic thinker with willingness to be hands-on

• Thrives in fast-paced, transformation-driven environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure Architect or Azure Developer certifications (AZ-305, AZ-204)

• Experience modernizing CI/CD using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps

• Familiarity with DDD, Clean Architecture, event sourcing, CQRS

• Knowledge of cloud security, identity, and zero-trust