Description

About the Company

Our client is committed to providing innovative healthcare solutions and enhancing the customer experience through a cloud-native digital platform.

About the Role

The Solution Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and evolving client’s cloud-native digital platform architecture, with a strong focus on Azure, microservices, secure integrations, and scalable customer-facing solutions. This role translates business and product requirements into secure, resilient, and scalable architecture patterns, aligned with Azure landing zone, AKS platform, and API-driven ecosystem. The architect partners closely with engineering, DevOps, security, and business teams to ensure solutions are production-ready, observable, and aligned to enterprise standards.

Responsibilities

  • Architecture Design & Governance
  • Define and maintain end-to-end solution architectures across:
  • Azure Front Door, WAF, App Gateway
  • AKS-based microservices platform
  • API Gateway and integration layer
  • Produce architecture artifacts: logical/physical diagrams, standards, and design blueprints
  • Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and cloud governance frameworks
  • Lead architecture reviews and design authority checkpoints

  • Cloud & Platform Engineering Alignment
  • Architect solutions leveraging:
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for containerized workloads
  • Azure DevOps pipelines (CI/CD, release automation)
  • Infrastructure-as-Code principles (Bicep/Terraform – preferred)
  • Partner with DevOps teams on:
  • Deployment patterns (blue/green, rolling upgrades)
  • Environment strategy (lower / middle / production)
  • Ensure solutions are designed for scalability, resiliency, and fault tolerance

  • Security & Identity Integration
  • Design secure access patterns using:
  • Azure Entra ID (internal and external tenants)
  • OAuth2, OIDC, SAML-based integrations
  • Ensure compliance with:
  • Zero Trust principles
  • Network isolation (Private Endpoints, NSGs)
  • Secrets management using Azure Key Vault
  • Incorporate DDoS protection, WAF policies, and network segmentation

  • API & Integration Architecture
  • Define and govern API-first design patterns
  • Architect integrations across:
  • Internal services (AKS microservices)
  • External partners (Propel, payment gateways, SaaS vendors)
  • On-prem systems via VPN / hybrid connectivity

Drive use of:

  • REST APIs
  • Event-driven patterns (where applicable)
  • Establish API governance (versioning, security, throttling)

  • Data & Platform Services Architecture
  • Design data solutions leveraging:
  • Azure SQL (tenant + central models)
  • Redis caching strategies
  • Azure Storage / Data Lake
  • Azure Cognitive Search (where applicable)
  • Define data access, tenancy models, and performance optimization strategies

  • Reliability, DR & Observability

Architect for:

  • High availability (multi-zone / regional)
  • Disaster recovery (Canada East DR replication strategy)

Define:

  • Monitoring & logging (platform observability patterns)
  • Backup and recovery strategies
  • Ensure alignment with RPO/RTO requirements

Partner & Vendor Integration

  • Evaluate and integrate third-party platforms (Boomi, SaaS, CMS, payment providers)
  • Define secure data exchange patterns (REST, SFTP, VPN)
  • Provide architecture oversight for vendor-delivered components

Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership

Collaborate with:

  • Product, engineering, security, and infrastructure teams
  • Present architectural designs and trade-offs to senior leadership
  • Mentor developers and engineers on architecture best practices
  • Contribute to architecture standards, reference patterns, and reusable

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in solution architecture, with strong cloud-native experience
  • 5+ years designing solutions on Microsoft Azure

Required Skills

  • Technical Expertise
  • Azure Services:
  • AKS, Azure Front Door, App Gateway, WAF
  • Azure DevOps (CI/CD)
  • Azure Key Vault, Private Endpoints
  • Azure SQL, Redis Cache, Storage, Cognitive Search
  • Architecture Patterns:
  • Microservices, REST APIs
  • Event-driven architecture (preferred)
  • Multi-tenant SaaS design