Carbon60 · 1 month ago
Sr. Azure Solutions Architect - Enterprise
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
CA$170K/yr - CA$200K/yr
10+ years expCarbon60 is a global engineering and consulting group that helps organizations accelerate digital transformation through cutting-edge technology. The Senior Azure Solutions Architect - Enterprise is responsible for leading the design, governance, and delivery of complex Azure programs, acting as the primary architectural authority supporting customers through various aspects of cloud strategy and implementation.
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Responsibilities
Lead enterprise-level Azure architecture across landing zones, identity, networking, security, governance, observability, and workload architecture
Author and validate HLDs, LLDs, blueprints, roadmaps, and architectural artifacts
Define target state architectures aligned to best practices (CAF, Zero Trust)
Provide architectural oversight for large-scale Azure transformation projects (migration, modernization, platform builds)
Ensure technical integrity, risk mitigation, and alignment with enterprise patterns
Guide engineering teams, provide mentorship, perform design reviews, and support escalations
Define security baselines, RBAC models, IAM controls, encryption, network segmentation, logging, monitoring, and data protection
Govern alignment with industry frameworks: SOC2, ISO27001, CIS, NIST, HIPAA, PCI, etc
Ensure adherence to Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, and organizational compliance standards
Drive architectural decision-making, trade-off discussions, and roadmap alignment
Support presales at SME capacity: estimation, solutioning, and SOW definition for new engagements
Provide end-to-end technical leadership throughout the program lifecycle
Mentor and upskill engineers and jr. architects within the Azure practice
Contribute to internal accelerators, frameworks, best practices, and reusable templates
Qualification
Required
10+ years in cloud architecture, enterprise architecture, or senior infrastructure/application architecture roles
7+ years hands-on Azure experience, including platform design, governance, security, and complex workload migration
Proven experience leading multi-workload, enterprise-scale Azure transformation or migration programs
Strong background in security, governance, compliance frameworks, and enterprise controls
Demonstrated ability to develop Azure landing zones, CAF-aligned architectures, and platform engineering patterns leveraging Infrastructure as Code (Bicep/Terraform)
Experience with hybrid/on-prem integration, identity federation, networking, BCDR, and cloud security best practices
Deep knowledge of Azure-native services across compute, storage, networking, data, identity, and management
Experience with cloud native modernization patterns (containers, microservices (AKS), Azure DevOps, IaC, YAML pipelines, GitOps)
Prior consulting, professional services, or customer-facing architecture experience required
Strong communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills
Preferred
Certifications strongly preferred: AZ-305, AZ-500, AZ-700, AZ-104, TOGAF or SABSA (bonus)
Has led at least 3–5 end-to-end enterprise Azure programs, ideally in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, energy, public sector)
Comes from a consulting, professional services, or systems integrator background (e.g., large SI, large boutique cloud partner)
Comfortable supporting strategy-to-execution with diverse stakeholder groups (business, security, infra, app teams)
Strong understanding of cost management, FinOps, governance controls, and cloud operating models
Can navigate ambiguity and drive clarity through architectural direction and decision frameworks
Benefits
Retirement Savings Matching Program (RRSP)
Partnership with Perkopolis Discounts
Remote first work environment
Flexible work hours & location
Paid parental leave options
Employer-paid health & dental premiums
GreenShield+ Counselling Mental Health
$500 in Health Care Spending Account annually
Training reimbursement (e.g courses on Udemy, Coursera, a-cloud-guru etc.)
Peer recognition rewards
Company
Carbon60
Carbon60 is a trusted managed cloud hosting and IT services provider for private and public sector organizations with business-critical applications.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
M/C Partners
2019-01-09Private Equity
2019-01-08Acquired
2014-04-02Private Equity
Leadership Team
Peter Kelly
VP Professional Services
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