Digital Cloud Architect

Qnity Electronics•Wimington, DE

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Qnity is hiring a full-time Cloud Architect based at its Chestnut Run Plaza campus in Wilmington, Delaware, supporting the Electronics organization. The role shapes Azure architecture and delivery standards for the company’s analytics and Generative AI capabilities. The Cloud Architect partners with data science, data engineering, and application teams to design, secure, and govern the Azure platform, and reports into the Digital Architecture group. The position owns key platform, data, AI, application, and security architecture, while establishing delivery governance and reusable standards. It also provides architecture leadership for a non-ERP transition services exit, maintains application portfolio records through go-live, guides solutions through architecture and security reviews, and coaches teams in adopting reference patterns. The role is based on site at Qnity’s Chestnut Run Plaza campus. The technology environment includes Azure platform and security services, Databricks and data/AI services, application and container platforms, Azure DevOps, infrastructure-as-code tools, and programming and scripting languages.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a closely related field.
At least one year of experience designing and operating production Azure workloads, including architecture ownership of enterprise platform and data workloads.
Proven delivery of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and production CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.
Direct experience leading a Unity Catalog implementation across multiple Databricks workspaces, with centralized governance and fine-grained access control.
Proven experience productionizing an agentic retrieval-augmented generation solution using Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI.
Fluency in Python and PowerShell, with the ability to prototype designed patterns.
Ability to build consensus across architecture, security, and engineering functions and guide standards through formal review.
Eligibility to work on site at Qnity’s Chestnut Run Plaza campus in Wilmington, Delaware, USA.

Nice To Haves

Azure platform and DevOps delivery experience within specialty materials, electronics, or comparable regulated manufacturing.
Experience in a large-scale separation, carve-out, or transition services exit program.
Hands-on administration of an enterprise architecture repository such as SAP LeanIX.
A master’s degree in business analytics, information systems, or a closely related technical field.

Responsibilities

Own the Azure landing zone, secure Data Lake design, and development, test, and production environment layout.
Build reusable Terraform modules for Generative AI, Databricks, and App Services workloads.
Own Azure DevOps pipeline architecture, Git branching model, and pull request standards for application and platform deployments.
Architect and productionize agentic retrieval-augmented generation solutions using Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI.
Lead Databricks Unity Catalog design and rollout across workspaces, including fine-grained access control and cluster policies.
Establish pipeline architecture across Databricks and Azure Data Factory, and define how curated data reaches Power BI.
Define deployment patterns for containerized and PaaS workloads exposed through Azure API Management.
Establish patterns for Entra ID, Key Vault, private endpoints, and network isolation across platform and data workloads.
Provide architecture leadership for the non-ERP transition services exit and maintain application portfolio records through go-live.
Document reference patterns, guide solutions through architecture and security review, and coach teams in adopting standards.
Partner with data science, data engineering, and application teams to design, secure, and govern the Azure platform.