[Hiring] Senior Azure Architect @DataSpring

Role Description

As a Senior Azure Architect, you will lead the design of DataSpring's Azure platform: the landing zones, networking, identity, resilience, and governance that our healthcare data products run on. DataSpring runs several production platforms in Azure that handle protected health information for health plans and providers nationwide, and we are bringing more of their design and operation in-house from vendors. You will help shape our Azure standards, review vendor designs against them, and stay hands-on enough to prove a design before it is adopted.

This is a full-time, remote, exempt position and reports to the Director, Enterprise Architecture & Infrastructure.

Specific Responsibilities

• Lead architecture design for Azure platforms and initiatives, contributing to the target-state architecture set by the Director.
• Design for resilience: recommend availability, recovery time, and recovery point targets for each platform.
• Develop and apply Azure standards through Azure Policy, reference architectures, and reusable infrastructure-as-code modules.
• Review designs from implementation vendors and partner teams on assigned projects before build, recommend approval, and hold them to the agreed standards through delivery.
• Lead network architecture, including private, edge, and global traffic management across regions.
• Partner with Information Security to meet HIPAA, SOC 2, and HITRUST requirements.
• Manage cloud costs for assigned projects within approved budgets (FinOps).
• Design the platform foundations for AI workloads, including Azure OpenAI and AI Foundry capacity.
• Implement and improve observability practices.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex Azure incidents and lead the design fixes that follow.
• Mentor engineers on the Architecture and Infrastructure team.
• Document architecture decisions and maintain current-state and target-state diagrams.
• Report weekly status on architecture initiatives to designated DataSpring management.
• Follow all DataSpring Policies and Procedures.

Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on expertise in Azure architecture: landing zones, management groups and subscriptions, Azure Policy, and the Cloud Adoption and Well-Architected Frameworks.
• Strong Azure networking: hub-and-spoke and Virtual WAN, Private Link, Azure DNS, Application Gateway and Front Door, Azure Firewall, and hybrid connectivity.
• Proven design of multi-region, highly available, and disaster recovery architectures for PaaS and container workloads.
• Identity architecture with Microsoft Entra ID across multiple tenants.
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform required; Bicep a plus) and CI/CD for infrastructure.
• Cloud security in a regulated environment (HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST).
• FinOps practice: reading Azure cost data, forecasting spend, and designing for cost.
• Ability to explain design trade-offs clearly to engineers, vendors, and executives.
• Demonstrated use of AI coding assistants to accelerate design, infrastructure as code, and analysis.
• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, or SAFe delivery is a plus.

Requirements

• 8+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering, with at least 5 years designing Azure environments at enterprise scale.
• Has led an Azure landing zone or platform design in production, including a disaster recovery design that was tested.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) strongly preferred; Azure networking or security specialty certifications are a plus.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) with company contributions and matching.
• Paid parental leave.
• Tuition assistance.
• Generous paid time off.
• Commitment to investing in our people and supporting professional growth over time.

Equal Opportunity Employer

DataSpring is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a workplace where all individuals are valued, respected, and empowered. Employment decisions at DataSpring are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin or ancestry, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, familial status, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, genetic information, source of income or any other characteristic protected by law.

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