About the Role We re hiring a seasoned technology leader to drive end-to-end solution architecture and program delivery across a modern Microsoft stack You ll own the technical vision design scalable cloud architectures on Azure lead ASP NET NET engineering teams and run complex multi-team programs with DevOps CI CD best practices You ll manage an onsite-offshore delivery model aligning stakeholders developers SRE DevOps QA and vendors to deliver secure reliable and cost-efficient platforms What You ll DoArchitecture Design Define target architectures for cloud-native and hybrid solutions using Azure App Service AKS Functions API Management Service Bus Event Hub Azure SQL Cosmos DB Storage Key Vault Application Insights Lead NET ASP NET Core backend and Web API design REST gRPC microservices event-driven patterns and domain-driven design Establish NFRs scalability performance availability security observability and guide design reviews threat modeling and reference architectures Select standards for APIs contracts versioning and integration OAuth2 OIDC with Entra ID Azure AD RBAC secrets management DevOps CI CD Platform Engineering Own CI CD pipelines Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for build test deploy automate quality gates IaC and release strategies blue green canary Implement Infrastructure as Code Bicep Terraform config management and environment promotion strategies Drive observability Application Insights Log Analytics SLOs SLIs incident management and post-mortems Champion security-by-design compliance data protection and cost optimization FinOps on Azure Technical Program Management Run multi-workstream roadmaps dependencies and risk issue management with explicit delivery plans and KPIs Translate business goals into epics OKRs manage budgets vendor contracts and executive reporting Orchestrate cross-functional teams engineering QA SecOps Data to land outcomes on time and within scope People Leadership Onsite-Offshore Delivery Lead and mentor engineering leads architects and TPMs across time zones establish coding standards and review practices Optimize the onsite-offshore model hand-offs overlap hours SLAs and continuously improve throughput and quality Foster a culture of craftsmanship accountability and continuous improvement Required Qualifications Deep Microsoft stack expertise NET 6 7 8 ASP NET Core C Web API LINQ Entity Framework Core Azure architecture designing and operating production workloads using core PaaS IaaS services listed above DevOps CI CD Azure DevOps GitHub Actions pipelines artifacts test automation release management IaC Terraform and or Bicep environment provisioning and drift detection Architecture skills microservices event-driven systems caching messaging API design data modeling Security compliance identity Entra ID secrets Key Vault network security private endpoints NSGs encryption Leadership team management of 10-40 engineers across onsite offshore coaching performance hiring Program delivery roadmapping estimation risk management stakeholder comms executive updates Methods Agile Scrum or Kanban backlog management acceptance criteria Definition of Done Communication ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate between business and engineering Nice to Have Azure certifications e g Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 DevOps Engineer Expert PMP PMI-ACP or SAFe experience establishing a PMO TPMO function Experience with Kubernetes AKS service mesh and container security Data analytics exposure ADF Synapse Fabric or event streaming Kafka Event Hubs Experience with performance tuning load testing and capacity planning Experience modernizing legacy NET Framework apps to NET Core NET 8 Working Model Onsite-Offshore Hybrid offshore work with daily overlap 2-4 hours with onshore teams for standups and hand-offs Occasional travel up to 10-20 for workshops PI planning and vendor partner alignment Flexible hours for critical releases and production events as needed What Success Looks Like First 90-180 Days Publish current-state assessment and target reference architecture align on a 12-month roadmap Stand up or harden CI CD pipelines and IaC for at least two core services deliver a zero-touch deploy path Implement observability dashboards and SLOs reduce MTTR and error budget burn Establish an effective onsite-offshore operating rhythm ceremonies SLAs documentation runbooks Job Type Full-time Pay 2 500 000 00 - 3 500 000 00 per year Expected Start Date 01 10 2025