About the Company

Our client is committed to providing innovative healthcare solutions and enhancing the customer experience through a cloud-native digital platform.

About the Role

The Solution Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and evolving client's cloud-native digital platform architecture, with a strong focus on Azure, microservices, secure integrations, and scalable customer-facing solutions. This role translates business and product requirements into secure, resilient, and scalable architecture patterns, aligned with Azure landing zone, AKS platform, and API-driven ecosystem. The architect partners closely with engineering, DevOps, security, and business teams to ensure solutions are production-ready, observable, and aligned to enterprise standards.

Responsibilities

- Architecture Design & Governance
- Define and maintain end-to-end solution architectures across:
- Azure Front Door, WAF, App Gateway
- AKS-based microservices platform
- API Gateway and integration layer
- Produce architecture artifacts: logical/physical diagrams, standards, and design blueprints
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and cloud governance frameworks
- Lead architecture reviews and design authority checkpoints

- Cloud & Platform Engineering Alignment
- Architect solutions leveraging:
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for containerized workloads
- Azure DevOps pipelines (CI/CD, release automation)
- Infrastructure-as-Code principles (Bicep/Terraform – preferred)
- Partner with DevOps teams on:
- Deployment patterns (blue/green, rolling upgrades)
- Environment strategy (lower / middle / production)
- Ensure solutions are designed for scalability, resiliency, and fault tolerance

- Security & Identity Integration
- Design secure access patterns using:
- Azure Entra ID (internal and external tenants)
- OAuth2, OIDC, SAML-based integrations
- Ensure compliance with:
- Zero Trust principles
- Network isolation (Private Endpoints, NSGs)
- Secrets management using Azure Key Vault




- Incorporate DDoS protection, WAF policies, and network segmentation

- API & Integration Architecture
- Define and govern API-first design patterns
- Architect integrations across:
- Internal services (AKS microservices)
- External partners (Propel, payment gateways, SaaS vendors)
- On-prem systems via VPN / hybrid connectivity

Drive use of:

- REST APIs
- Event-driven patterns (where applicable)
- Establish API governance (versioning, security, throttling)

- Data & Platform Services Architecture
- Design data solutions leveraging:
- Azure SQL (tenant + central models)
- Redis caching strategies
- Azure Storage / Data Lake
- Azure Cognitive Search (where applicable)
- Define data access, tenancy models, and performance optimization strategies

- Reliability, DR & Observability

Architect for:

- High availability (multi-zone / regional)
- Disaster recovery (Canada East DR replication strategy)

Define:

- Monitoring & logging (platform observability patterns)
- Backup and recovery strategies
- Ensure alignment with RPO/RTO requirements

Partner & Vendor Integration

- Evaluate and integrate third-party platforms (Boomi, SaaS, CMS, payment providers)
- Define secure data exchange patterns (REST, SFTP, VPN)
- Provide architecture oversight for vendor-delivered components

Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership

Collaborate with:

- Product, engineering, security, and infrastructure teams
- Present architectural designs and trade-offs to senior leadership
- Mentor developers and engineers on architecture best practices
- Contribute to architecture standards, reference patterns, and reusable

Qualifications

- 10+ years in solution architecture, with solid cloud-native experience
- 5+ years designing solutions on Microsoft Azure

Required Skills

- Technical Expertise
- Azure Services:
- AKS, Azure Front Door, App Gateway, WAF
- Azure DevOps (CI/CD)
- Azure Key Vault, Private Endpoints
- Azure SQL, Redis Cache, Storage, Cognitive Search
- Architecture Patterns:
- Microservices, REST APIs
- Event-driven architecture (preferred)
- Multi-tenant SaaS design

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