Azure Cloud Platform Architect & Strategy Lead

Abbott; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Education benefits

Global opportunities

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Principal Architect to define and govern the architecture strategy for a large-scale cloud-native platform on Microsoft Azure. You will provide technical leadership across multiple teams to ensure scalability, security, reliability, and operational excellence across web, mobile, APIs, and IoT ecosystems.

The role requires 15+ years in software engineering and 6+ years in Azure cloud architecture, with experience delivering enterprise SaaS across multiple domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the architectural vision, roadmap, standards, and technology strategy for a multi-product cloud-native platform running on Microsoft Azure.
• Architect highly scalable, resilient, secure, and observable distributed systems supporting millions of transactions and connected devices.
• Lead architecture for event-driven microservices ecosystems using domain-driven design (DDD), API-first design, CQRS, and asynchronous messaging patterns.
• Design platform architecture supporting Web UI applications (Angular/React), Mobile Applications (iOS/Android), APIs, and IoT device ecosystems.
• Architect secure ingestion, processing, and management of high-volume IoT device traffic and telemetry at scale.
• Define reference architectures, architectural guardrails, reusable frameworks, and engineering standards across multiple product teams.
• Establish enterprise-wide architecture principles covering security, scalability, availability, maintainability, compliance, performance, and cost optimization.
• Lead architectural decisions involving Azure PaaS and cloud-native services including AKS, API Management, Service Bus, Event Hub, IoT Hub, Functions, Cosmos DB, SQL, Blob Storage, Redis, Entra ID, Monitor and Insights.
• Architect multi-region, highly available, disaster recovery capable solutions with defined RTO and RPO objectives.
• Drive modernization, cloud adoption, and migration of legacy systems to modern cloud-native architectures.
• Ensure DevSecOps, IaC, GitOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering best practices.
• Review solution architectures via architecture reviews and design authorities.
• Define API and data governance, integration patterns, and interoperability standards.
• Partner with security teams on Zero Trust, threat modeling, and secure SDLC.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering leadership to align business objectives with technology strategy.
• Establish platform observability standards including monitoring, logging, tracing, telemetry, and analytics.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, AI/ML capabilities, and industry trends to drive value.
• Mentor senior engineers, architects, and technical leaders to foster architectural excellence across the organization.

Skills

Azure cloud

Microservices

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Security architecture

Observability

DevSecOps

AI/ML architecture

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)

Azure API Management

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Functions

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Abbott is seeking a Principal Architect to define and govern the architecture strategy for a large-scale cloud-native platform on Microsoft Azure. You will provide technical leadership across multiple teams to ensure scalability, security, reliability, and operational excellence across web, mobile, APIs, and IoT ecosystems.

The role requires 15+ years in software engineering and 6+ years in Azure cloud architecture, with experience delivering enterprise SaaS across multiple domains.