Tata Consultancy Services · 14 hours ago
Azure Architect
Grand Rapids, MI
Full-time
Onsite
Senior LevelTata Consultancy Services is seeking an Azure Architect to lead the design and implementation of event-driven systems and disaster recovery strategies. The role involves ensuring real-time event pipeline stability, managing cross-region failover strategies, and overseeing cost governance and reporting for Azure services.
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Responsibilities
Ensure Real-Time Event Pipeline Stability
Design and enforce idempotent event processing, at-least-once or exactly-once delivery semantics
Currently Duplicate detection is enabled at Azure ServiceBus Infrastructure level, and at Application-level messages being validated against duplicate processing
Manage dead-letter queues (DLQ) and retry policies
Define event ordering, deduplication, schema evolution
Maintain SLOs for latency, throughput, and event loss. Define the same for new designs coming up for upcoming Transaction Groups
Event backlog monitoring
Consumer lag thresholds
Circuit breaker & backpressure strategies
Disaster Recovery & Multi-Region Maturity
Own the phased maturity roadmap
Move Toward Active-Active
Front Door/APIM routing
Stateless compute enablement
Geo-replicated messaging (Azure ServiceBus)
Cosmos DB multi-region writes
Azure SQL Hyperscale read replicas / failover groups
Design cross-region failover strategy (Example: EA2 → Central US)
DB2 connection resiliency validated through DR drills
Architect geo-redundant Function Apps
Ensure: Cross-region deployment pipelines
Storage replication (GRS / RA-GRS)
Mainframe failover connectivity strategy
Document file ingestion failover workflow
Maintain Reprocessing Framework
Event replay pipelines
Audit trail for rejected events
Data consistency & reconciliation logic
Replay throttling & idempotency safeguards
Operational Oversight
No silent event loss
Business-approved replay rules
SLA for rejected event recovery
Runbooks for reprocessing
Own cost visibility, forecasting, optimization, and executive reporting
Right-size Premium plans
Optimize cold start, scaling rules, memory allocation
Reduce idle instance costs
Use scale controllers & concurrency tuning
RU/s right-sizing & autoscale governance
Partition strategy optimization
TTL, indexing, and data archival strategy
Avoid hot partitions & cross-partition scans
Monitor Query Store & wait stats
Right-size compute replicas
Optimize IO & read replicas usage
Manage long-term storage & data lifecycle
Evaluate serverless where feasible
Own monthly FinOps reporting
Define budget thresholds & alerts
Track cost per event / cost per transaction
Recommend architectural cost trade-offs
Full-Stack Telemetry Ownership
Event throughput
Reject reprocess volume
Function execution failures
ADF pipeline failures
DB2 & mainframe latency
Cosmos RU consumption
SQL wait stats
Incident Response Leadership
Own RCA for major incidents
Maintain runbooks & playbooks
Lead DR drills & chaos testing
Maintain MTTR reduction roadmap
Managed Identity adoption
Secret elimination (Key Vault)
Network isolation (Private Endpoints)
Data encryption & classification
Mainframe secure gateway patterns
Zero-trust enforcement
Translate risk into business impact
Present DR readiness score
Present cost optimization roadmap
Provide resiliency maturity heatmaps
Define platform architecture standards
Review solution designs
Mentor dev & SRE teams
Prevent architecture drift
Qualification
Required
Design and enforce idempotent event processing, at-least-once or exactly-once delivery semantics
Currently Duplicate detection is enabled at Azure ServiceBus Infrastructure level, and at Application-level messages being validated against duplicate processing
Manage dead-letter queues (DLQ) and retry policies
Define event ordering, deduplication, schema evolution
Maintain SLOs for latency, throughput, and event loss. Define the same for new designs coming up for upcoming Transaction Groups
Event backlog monitoring
Consumer lag thresholds
Circuit breaker & backpressure strategies
Own the phased maturity roadmap toward Active-Active
Front Door/APIM routing
Stateless compute enablement
Geo-replicated messaging (Azure ServiceBus)
Cosmos DB multi-region writes
Azure SQL Hyperscale read replicas / failover groups
Design cross-region failover strategy (Example: EA2 → Central US)
Architect geo-redundant Function Apps
Ensure cross-region deployment pipelines
Storage replication (GRS / RA-GRS)
Mainframe failover connectivity strategy
Document file ingestion failover workflow
Maintain Reprocessing Framework
Event replay pipelines
Audit trail for rejected events
Data consistency & reconciliation logic
Replay throttling & idempotency safeguards
No silent event loss
Business-approved replay rules
SLA for rejected event recovery
Runbooks for reprocessing
Own cost visibility, forecasting, optimization, and executive reporting
Right-size Premium plans
Optimize cold start, scaling rules, memory allocation
Reduce idle instance costs
Use scale controllers & concurrency tuning
RU/s right-sizing & autoscale governance
Partition strategy optimization
TTL, indexing, and data archival strategy
Avoid hot partitions & cross-partition scans
Monitor Query Store & wait stats
Right-size compute replicas
Optimize IO & read replicas usage
Manage long-term storage & data lifecycle
Evaluate serverless where feasible
Own monthly FinOps reporting
Define budget thresholds & alerts
Track cost per event / cost per transaction
Recommend architectural cost trade-offs
Full-Stack Telemetry Ownership
Event throughput
Reject reprocess volume
Function execution failures
ADF pipeline failures
DB2 & mainframe latency
Cosmos RU consumption
SQL wait stats
Own RCA for major incidents
Maintain runbooks & playbooks
Lead DR drills & chaos testing
Maintain MTTR reduction roadmap
Managed Identity adoption
Secret elimination (Key Vault)
Network isolation (Private Endpoints)
Data encryption & classification
Mainframe secure gateway patterns
Zero-trust enforcement
Translate risk into business impact
Present DR readiness score
Present cost optimization roadmap
Provide resiliency maturity heatmaps
Define platform architecture standards
Review solution designs
Mentor dev & SRE teams
Prevent architecture drift
Company
Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services is a business solutions company that specializes on information technology services and consulting.
Founded in 1968
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