Azure Solution Architect

Accion Labs; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Accion Labs seeks a senior Solution Architect to design, govern, and evolve our cloud-native platform with a strong emphasis on Azure, microservices, secure integrations, and scalable customer-facing solutions.

The role translates business requirements into resilient architectures aligned with Azure landing zones, AKS, and API-driven ecosystems, partnering with engineering, DevOps, security, and business teams to ensure production-readiness and enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in solution architecture or senior enterprise architecture roles.
• 5+ years designing solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with secure integrations, API-first design, and cloud governance.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end solution architectures across AKS-based microservices and API gateway layers.
• Produce architecture artifacts, diagrams, standards, and blueprints.
• Lead architecture reviews and design authority checkpoints; ensure security and compliance.

Skills

Azure

Microservices

Security Identity

API design

Observability

Architecture governance

CI/CD

Tools

Azure DevOps

Boomi

Job description

The Solution Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and evolving our cloud-native digital platform architecture, with a strong focus on Azure, microservices, secure integrations, and scalable customer-facing solutions.

This role translates business and product requirements into secure, resilient, and scalable

architecture patterns, aligned with our Azure landing zone, AKS platform, and API-driven

ecosystem. The architect partners closely with engineering, DevOps, security, and business teams to ensure solutions are production-ready, observable, and aligned to enterprise standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain end-to-end solution architectures across:
  • AKS-based microservices platform
  • API Gateway and integration layer
• Produce architecture artifacts: logical/physical diagrams, standards, and design blueprints
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and cloud governance frameworks
• Lead architecture reviews and design authority checkpoints
  • Azure DevOps pipelines (CI/CD, release automation)
• Partner with DevOps teams on:
• Ensure solutions are designed for scalability, resiliency, and fault tolerance

3. Security & Identity Integration

• Design secure access patterns using:
  • Azure Entra ID (internal and external tenants)
  • OAuth2, OIDC, SAML-based integrations
• Ensure compliance with:
  • Zero Trust principles
  • Network isolation (Private Endpoints, NSGs)
• Incorporate DDoS protection, WAF policies, and network segmentation
• Define and govern API-first design patterns:
  • Internal services (AKS microservices)
  • External partners (Propel, payment gateways, SaaS vendors)
  • On-prem systems via VPN / hybrid connectivity
  • REST APIs
  • Event-driven patterns (where applicable)
• Establish API governance (versioning, security, throttling)
  • Redis caching strategies
  • Azure Cognitive Search (where applicable)
• Define data access, tenancy models, and performance optimization strategies
  • High availability (multi-zone / regional)
  • Disaster recovery (Canada East DR replication strategy)
  • Monitoring & logging (platform observability patterns)
  • Backup and recovery strategies
• Ensure alignment with RPO/RTO requirements
• Evaluate and integrate third-party platforms (Boomi, SaaS, CMS, payment providers)
• Provide architecture oversight for vendor-delivered components

8. Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership

• Collaborate with:
  • Product, engineering, security, and infrastructure teams
• Present architectural designs and trade-offs to senior leadership
• Mentor developers and engineers on architecture best practices
• Contribute to architecture standards, reference patterns, and reusable frameworks

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Required Experience

• 10+ years in solution architecture, with strong cloud-native experience
• 5+ years designing solutions on Microsoft Azure
• Proven experience with:

Technical Expertise

• Microservices, REST APIs
• Event-driven architecture (preferred)
• Security & Identity:
  • Entra ID (AAD), External ID (B2B/B2C patterns)
  • OAuth2, OIDC, SAML
  • VNET design, NSGs, hybrid connectivity (VPN)
  • Infrastructure as Code (nice-to-have)

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with:
  • Headless CMS and digital experience platforms
  • Integration platforms (e.g., Boomi)
• Familiarity with:
  • Blue/green deployments and progressive delivery
  • Observability tooling (APM, centralized logging)
• Strong architectural thinking and system design skills
• Ability to balance business outcomes with technical constraints
• Clear and executive-level communication capability
• Strong collaboration across cross-functional teams
• Proactive ownership and continuous improvement mindset
• High emphasis on security, scalability, and customer-facing reliability.