Azure Cloud Architect & Lead

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Please let me know if you are interested.

Job Title: Azure Cloud Architect & Lead

Location - Berkeley Heights, NJ / Alpharetta, GA (5 days onsite)

Hire Type – Long Term Contract

Position 1- Azure Cloud Architect - Architect - Lead , Design, Patterns, Governance , Migration or decommissioning approach and technical oversight.

Position 2- Azure Cloud Lead - Manage execution, risk , dependencies, customer coordinatios and reporting

Requirement:

Title: Solution Architect

• Define target cloud architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and alignment with business goals.
• Develop migration strategy and roadmap, selecting migration patterns (rehost, replatform, refactor, etc.) and sequencing workloads.
• Assess existing systems to identify dependencies, technical debt, risks, and modernization opportunities.
• Establish architecture standards and governance, ensuring designs align with enterprise and cloud best practices.
• Design security, IAM, compliance, and network models, meeting regulatory and organizational requirements.
• Create highlevel and lowlevel technical designs for compute, storage, networking, integrations, monitoring, and DR.
• Define integration architecture across APIs, events, and messaging.
• Optimize cloud sizing and cost models for efficient longterm operations.
• Provide technical leadership, guiding engineering, DevOps, QA, security, and operations teams.
• Conduct PoCs to validate cloud services and architectural patterns.
• Support build, testing, and cutover, resolving technical blockers and ensuring environment readiness.
• Document architecture and deliver knowledge transfer to operational teams.