Azure Enterprise Architect; CPG

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The Azure Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining and governing the end-to-end technology architecture across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, and security, with a primary focus on the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. This role ensures that all technology initiatives are aligned to business strategy, leverage Azure-native capabilities, and are scalable, secure, and cost-effective. The Enterprise Architect works closely with business leaders, product owners, solution and data architects, and delivery teams to shape roadmaps, review designs, and guide execution for enterprise‑scale, multi‑region, and multi‑tenant use cases.

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture blueprint (business, application, data, technology, and security layers) with Azure as a strategic platform.
• Translate business strategy and priorities into Azure‑centric technology roadmaps and target‑state architectures.
• Establish and govern architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures (e.g., landing zones, reference solutions on Azure).
• Run Architecture Review Boards (ARBs) / design councils to review and approve major Azure solutions and changes.
• Identify technology risks, technical debt, and rationalization opportunities (e.g., legacy to Azure migration, consolidation) and recommend remediation plans.
• Provide architecture guidance to solutions data, and technical architects across Azure projects and products.
• Review high‑level and detailed designs to ensure compliance with enterprise standards, scalability, performance, and security on Azure.
• Define integration patterns (e.g., API Management, Service Bus, Event Hub, Event Grid) and APIs for interoperability between systems and external partners.
• Drive cloud adoption and modernization (microservices on AKS/App Service, serverless, event‑driven architectures, cloud‑native data platforms).
• Ensure architectures support observability, resilience, and reliability (App Insights, Log Analytics, Availability Zones, DR patterns).

• Partner with data and information architects to define data architectures on Azure (Data Lake, Synapse, Databricks, SQL/No
  
  SQL stores).
• Work with security, risk, and compliance teams to embed security‑by‑design using Azure‑native controls (Defender, Key Vault, IAM/RBAC, Policies).
• Ensure alignment with enterprise security, regulatory, and compliance requirements (data residency, encryption, identity, access management).

• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders and product owners on Azure technology choices, patterns, and trade‑offs.
• Communicate complex architectural concepts in clear, business‑focused language, linking architecture decisions to value, risk, and TCO.
• Influence and align multiple stakeholders (business, IT, vendors, global/regional teams) around common Azure standards and roadmaps.
• Coach and mentor solution architects, technical leads, and engineering teams on architecture and Azure best practices.
• Support vendor evaluation and technology selection (RFPs, POCs, benchmarks) for Azure and adjacent platforms.

• Support estimation and planning by providing Azure architecture input, assumptions, and constraints.
• Ensure solutions are designed for operations (supportability, maintainability, monitoring, SLAs) using Azure‑native capabilities.
• Define and track architecture KPIs (e.g., reuse of patterns, standardization, reduction of tech debt, system performance, cloud cost efficiency).
• Conduct post‑implementation reviews to capture lessons learned and continuously improve reference architectures and guardrails.

• Strong experience across application, data, integration, and infrastructure architectures in enterprise environments.
• Hands‑on architecture and design experience on Microsoft Azure, AI/GenAI platforms and AI Factory (AIF), including several of:
• Compute
  :
  App Service, AKS, Functions, VM scale sets
• Integration & Events
  : API Management, Service Bus, Event Hub, Event…