Azure-Focused Enterprise Cloud Architect

Specialty Building Products is currently looking for a Principal Architect to join our VALUES based organization to define and evolve the enterprise technology architecture supporting SBP’s cloud-native and digital initiatives. This role establishes the long-term architectural vision, reference models, and technology roadmaps that guide application, platform, integration, and data engineering efforts. The Principal Architect ensures alignment between business strategy and technical direction while partnering closely with engineering leadership to translate architecture into executable plans.

This is a strategic technical leadership role focused on architectural direction and cross-domain coherence rather than day-to-day implementation governance.

• Define and publish target architecture across microservices, integration, data, and cloud domains.
• Maintain architectural decision records (ADRs) and reference models to guide engineering teams.
• Establish architectural principles governing modularity, interoperability, security, scalability, and maintainability.
• Develop and refine multi-year technology roadmaps aligned to business strategy and operational priorities.
• Provide architectural guidance across application, data, integration, and cloud domains.
• Facilitate architecture forums and design reviews for major initiatives.
• Evaluate and recommend technology selections in partnership with engineering and platform leadership.
• Ensure new solutions align with enterprise integration patterns, data governance standards, and security requirements.
• Guide modernization and migration initiatives.
• Define high-level patterns for cloud-native architectures on Microsoft Azure.
• Establish principles for event-driven systems, API-first development, identity, and distributed data management.
• Guide resiliency, availability, and scalability expectations for enterprise systems.
• Define reference models for containerization, integration messaging, and service boundaries.

• Partner with business and IT leadership to translate strategic objectives into architectural direction.
• Collaborate with Security, Networking, Data, and Engineering leaders to ensure cohesive enterprise solutions.
• Mentor senior engineers and architects.
• Foster architectural literacy across the organization.
• Promote long-term thinking, technical debt reduction, and architectural consistency.
• Engage in critical incident discussions when architectural decisions are implicated.

• 10+ years in software architecture and engineering, including 5+ years designing enterprise-scale systems on Microsoft Azure.
• Demonstrated experience defining enterprise architecture standards adopted across multiple teams.
• Proven success aligning architecture with business strategy.
• Experience guiding modernization of legacy systems into cloud-native architectures.
• Strong background in distributed systems, integration patterns, and enterprise data flows.
• Experience influencing technical direction in collaborative environments.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or related field.

• Microservices and API-first architectures
• Identity and access management (Azure AD / Entra , OAuth/OIDC)
• Containerization and AKS concepts (design-level guidance)
• Data platform awareness (Synapse, Databricks, ADLS concepts)

• AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect Expert)
• TOGAF or similar architectural framework experience
• Familiarity with AI-enabled systems and emerging platform capabilities

Being a part of SBP you will be eligible for many benefits. Full-Time benefits would include:

• Medical, Dental, Vision given on the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
• Company-Paid Life Insurance & Disability
• 401(k) with Company Match
• Company-Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays & Floating Holidays

Specialty Building Products is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy of Specialty Building Products not to discriminate in hiring and employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, age, military status, genetic information, or other protected class status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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