Azure Integration Architect — Platform Design Lead

Founderr; Leeds; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Founderr in Leeds is building a new architecture practice and seeks a solutions architect to shape the platform. You will draft HLDs, set integration patterns, and influence design decisions with senior stakeholders.

The role sits at the forefront of technology investment in a not-for-profit environment, moving legacy integrations to Azure You will work closely with business owners, translating requirements into buildable designs and establishing patterns that engineers can reuse.

Qualifications

• An established track record as a solution or technical architect producing HLDs that others build from.
• Applications and integration as your primary discipline.
• Design judgement across Azure Integration Services, Service Bus and Logic Apps foremost, with API Management, Functions and Event Grid behind.
• Experience moving a legacy or point-to-point integration estate onto a managed Azure layer.
• Comfort operating without mature standards, and helping to write them.
• The ability to hold your own with senior non-technical stakeholders and be trusted by them.

Responsibilities

• Owning high-level design for application and integration change, from options through to design authority approval.
• Leading the redesign of a legacy point-to-point integration estate onto the managed Azure platform.
• Setting integration patterns, standards and reusable building blocks for the engineering team.
• Governing supplier and third-party designs against your patterns.
• Working day to day with business analysts to turn requirements into well-formed, buildable designs.

Skills

Solution architecture

HLDs

Azure Integration Services

Service Bus

Logic Apps

API Management

Azure Functions

Event Grid

Stakeholder management

Tools

BizTalk

SSIS

Dynamics 365

Power Platform

Job description

Founderr in Leeds is building a new architecture practice and seeks a solutions architect to shape the platform. You will draft HLDs, set integration patterns, and influence design decisions with senior stakeholders.

The role sits at the forefront of technology investment in a not-for-profit environment, moving legacy integrations to Azure You will work closely with business owners, translating requirements into buildable designs and establishing patterns that engineers can reuse.