Azure -Solutions Architect

Relevance Lab; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Relevance Lab in Mississauga, ON, Canada is seeking a Solution Architect to design and govern Azure-first, cloud-native platform architectures. You will translate business requirements into scalable patterns, align with AKS, API-driven ecosystems, and enterprise standards, and partner with engineering, DevOps, security, and business teams to ensure production-ready solutions.

Responsibilities include defining architecture across Azure services, enforcing security, and driving scalable,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in solution architecture.
• 5+ years designing solutions on Microsoft Azure.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end Azure-based architectures for cloud-native platforms.
• Govern architecture with security, observability, and governance in mind.
• Lead architecture reviews and design authority checkpoints.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Mentor developers on architecture best practices and reference patterns.

Skills

AKS

Azure Front Door

App Gateway

WAF

Azure DevOps

Key Vault

Private Endpoints

Azure SQL

Redis Cache

Cognitive Search

Job description

About This Job

Relevance Lab

Location: Mississauga, ON, Canada

Work Mode: On-site

Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting, Retail Pharmacies, Business Consulting and Services

Job Description

About the Company

Our client is committed to providing innovative healthcare solutions and enhancing the customer experience through a cloud-native digital platform.

About The Role

The Solution Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and evolving client's 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Architecture Design & Governance Define and maintain end-to-end solution architectures across: Azure Front Door, WAF, App Gateway, 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.
• Cloud & Platform Engineering Alignment: Architect solutions leveraging Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for containerized workloads, Azure DevOps pipelines (CI/CD, release automation), Infrastructure-as-Code principles (Bicep/Terraform – preferred). Partner with DevOps teams on deployment patterns (blue/green, rolling upgrades), environment strategy (lower / middle / production). Ensure solutions are designed for scalability, resiliency, and fault tolerance.
• 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), Secrets management using Azure Key Vault. Incorporate DDoS protection, WAF policies, and network segmentation.
• API & Integration Architecture: Define and govern API-first design patterns. Architect integrations across Internal services (AKS microservices), External partners (Propel, payment gateways, SaaS vendors), On-prem systems via VPN / hybrid connectivity.
• Drive Use Of: REST APIs, Event-driven patterns (where applicable). Establish API governance (versioning, security, throttling).
• Data & Platform Services Architecture: Design data solutions leveraging Azure SQL (tenant + central models), Redis caching strategies, Azure Storage / Data Lake, Azure Cognitive Search (where applicable). Define data access, tenancy models, and performance optimization strategies.
• Reliability, DR & Observability: Architect For High availability (multi-zone / regional), Disaster recovery (Canada East DR replication strategy). Define Monitoring & logging (platform observability patterns), Backup and recovery strategies. Ensure alignment with RPO/RTO requirements.
• Partner & Vendor Integration: Evaluate and integrate third-party platforms (Boomi, SaaS, CMS, payment providers). Define secure data exchange patterns (REST, SFTP, VPN). Provide architecture oversight for vendor-delivered components.
• 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.

Qualifications

10+ years in solution architecture, with strong cloud-native experience.

5+ years designing solutions on Microsoft Azure.

Required Skills

• Azure Services: AKS, Azure Front Door, App Gateway, WAF, Azure DevOps (CI/CD), Azure Key Vault, Private Endpoints, Azure SQL, Redis Cache, Storage, Cognitive Search
• Architecture Patterns: Microservices, REST APIs, Event-driven architecture (preferred), Multi-tenant SaaS design