Principal Cloud Solutions Architect

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About The Position

The Principal Cloud Solutions Architect is a senior technical and people leader responsible for defining the enterprise cloud, platform, and data architecture strategy on Microsoft Azure. This role provides architectural vision, technical governance, and hands‑on guidance while leading a team of cloud architects and engineers. The Principal Architect drives cloud modernization, reliability, and data platform excellence, ensuring solutions align with business strategy, scalability, security, and operational maturity.

Requirements

• Senior or staff-level experience as a data platform architect or principal engineer, with demonstrated ownership of end-to-end platform architecture
• 10+ years of experience
• Proven track record of defining and driving a data platform architectural roadmap, not just executing on one
• Experience designing self-serve data platform capabilities and data product patterns for domain-oriented consumption
• Deep practical knowledge of Azure networking: VNet injection, private endpoints, NSG/UDR configuration, Private Link, and hub-spoke topology in a data platform context
• Proven hands-on experience with Databricks workspace administration: Unity Catalog, service principals, cluster policies, ACLs, and secrets management
• Strong identity and access management skills: Azure Entra ID, service principal lifecycle, managed identities, and OAuth M2M configuration
• Hands-on Terraform experience for provisioning and managing Databricks workspaces and Azure resources
• Experience configuring ADLS Gen2, external locations, and storage credentials for Databricks
• Familiarity with Fivetran or equivalent managed ingestion tooling and incremental ingestion patterns
• Working familiarity with dbt project structure and medallion architecture sufficient to support and collaborate with analytics engineering teams (awareness, not deep expertise)
• Proven track record of designing secure, governed data solutions in collaboration with security and compliance teams
• Excellent communication skills - able to present architectural decisions to both technical teams and business stakeholder
• Strong skills in: Azure, Microsoft Architecture, C#, SQL, Unit Testing, .NET, Experience NET/ASP.NET Core Web API, JavaScript, SOLID Principles

Nice To Haves

• Knockout
• Azure Cosmos DB or NoSQL database
• Pub/Sub and asynchronous messaging
• Docker
• MVVM

Responsibilities

• Own the target-state architecture for the enterprise data platform across ingestion, transformation, storage, compute, and delivery layers
• Define and enforce architectural standards, guardrails, and reusable patterns; lead design reviews and document platform decisions (ADRs)
• Drive platform strategy and roadmap aligned to business priorities, including build-vs-buy decisions and technology evaluations
• Design platform capabilities as reusable, self-serve data products with clear interfaces, SLAs, and ownership
• Establish consumption patterns that enable domain teams and analytics engineers to self-serve while maintaining governance, quality, and lineage
• Design and manage Azure cloud infrastructure and networking for Databricks, including hub-spoke topology, Private Link, and secure service connectivity
• Own Databricks workspace administration (Unity Catalog, access controls, service principals, cluster policies, secrets, cost optimization)
• Implement identity, access, and security controls using Azure Entra ID, SCIM provisioning, RBAC, data masking, encryption, and audit logging
• Define and enforce ingestion and integration standards (e.g., Fivetran) and ensure seamless support for dbt and analytics engineering workflows
• Own operational reliability through IaC, CI/CD, observability, performance tuning, incident response, and translating platform capabilities into business outcomes

Benefits

• 40 years of industry experience
• TOP employee engagement results in 2024
• Number one in vendor satisfaction within Sapient Insights Group's HR Systems Survey for two years in a row

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed