Azure Cloud Architect - Manager/Senior Manager

Cloud Assessment & Strategy

• Perform cloud readiness and maturity assessments for enterprise clients;
• Analyze existing on-prem workloads and determine migration feasibility, risks, and value;
• Evaluate applications to decide whether cloud migration is necessary, recommended, or counterproductive;
• Estimate costs, TCO, expected optimizations, and ROI of cloud adoption;

Azure Architecture & Design

• Create high-level and low-level architectural designs aligned with Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF);
• Design end-to-end Azure solutions including;
• Networking, identity, security;
• Compute, storage, databases;
• Governance, monitoring, and automation;
• Lead technical discovery workshops and create architecture documentation;

Workload Migration

• Identify the right strategy per application: Rehost (lift-and-shift), Refactor, Rearchitect, Rebuild, Retire, Retain
• Define migration waves, dependencies, and cutover strategies;
• Support migration execution and ensure adherence to best practices;

Landing Zone Design & Implementation

Design and implement Azure Landing Zones using:

• Azure Blueprints / Bicep / Terraform;
• Hub-and-Spoke architecture;
• Entra ID integration;
• Management groups, RBAC, policies;

Ensure the landing zone meets requirements for:

• Security;
• Compliance;
• Cost management;
• Scalability;
• Operational excellence;

Collaboration & Leadership

• Work closely with stakeholders, product owners, and engineering teams;
• Guide customers on cloud governance, FinOps, DevOps adoption;
• Mentor engineers and provide architectural oversight.

Certifications (at least one): Core Azure Certifications AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (mandatory); AZ-104: Azure Administrator (strongly recommended); AZ-900: Fundamentals (nice-to-have); Advanced / Specialist AZ-500: Azure Security Engineer; AZ-700: Azure Network Engineer; DP-203: Data Engineering (if data-heavy workloads expected); Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (SC-100). Erfahrung Ability to explain architecture to both technical and non-technical stakeholders; Excellent documentation and presentation skills. Fluency in written and spoken English, German is a plus Flexibility & willingness to travel, Must have:

• Strong knowledge of Azure Architecture, including governance, networking, security, identity;
• Experience with cloud discovery and assessment tools (Azure Migrate, Mover, Cloudamize, etc.);
• Practical expertise in migration strategies and workload classification;
• Hands-on experience building Azure Landing Zones;
• Strong understanding of Entra ID, RBAC, Conditional Access;
• Experience with IaC (Terraform, Bicep);
• Ability to explain architecture to both technical and non-technical stakeholders;
• Excellent documentation and presentation skills.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience in hybrid environments (Azure + on-prem);
• Knowledge of container platforms (AKS), serverless, event-driven architecture;
• Familiarity with DevOps processes and CI/CD tools (GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps);
• FinOps and cost optimization experience;
• Azure VMware Solution (AVS) knowledge

Core Azure Certifications

• AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (mandatory);
• AZ-104: Azure Administrator (strongly recommended);
• AZ-900: Fundamentals (nice-to-have);

Advanced / Specialist

• AZ-500: Azure Security Engineer;
• AZ-700: Azure Network Engineer;
• DP-203: Data Engineering (if data-heavy workloads expected);
• Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (SC-100).

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