About This Job
Relevance Lab
Location: Mississauga, ON, Canada

Work Mode: On-site

Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting, Retail Pharmacies, Business Consulting and Services

Job Description
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), workplace 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 strong cloud-native experience.

5+ years designing solutions on Microsoft Azure.

Required Skills

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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📌 Azure -Solutions Architect (Ontario)
🏢 Relevance Lab
📍 Ontario