Senior Azure Cloud Architect for Data Platform (Remote)

AIPPY Technologies; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AIPPY Technologies seeks a Senior Azure Cloud Engineering Consultant to architect, design, build, and secure the Azure cloud foundation for modern data platforms. You will lead landing zones, networking, identity, and IaC across multiple client engagements, delivering production-ready solutions.

Remote/hybrid role with contract engagement; you will collaborate with client cloud, security, and data teams to ensure architecture aligns with enterprise standards and governance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud, infrastructure or platform engineering.
• 5+ years designing and running production environments on Azure.
• 2+ years in a consulting or client-facing delivery role.
• Hands-on build of secure Azure Databricks environments and Fabric capacities.
• Strong Entra ID, RBAC, Key Vault and Azure Policy experience.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state Azure cloud architectures for client data platforms.
• Apply Azure Well-Architected Framework across reliability, security, cost, and performance.
• Lead architecture decisions on multi-region setups and workspace topology.
• Design for scale, multi-tenancy and data residency across regions.
• Produce reference architectures and ADRs; plan migrations from on-prem to Azure.
• Build reusable architecture patterns and blueprints for the practice.
• Implement private networking, secure connectivity and Private Link; manage DNS zones.
• Design least-privilege RBAC and identity federation for platforms.

Skills

Azure architecture

Cloud security

Networking design

Terraform

Bicep

CI/CD pipelines

Databricks

Fabric/OneLake

Python/ scripting

PowerShell

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Job description

AIPPY Technologies seeks a Senior Azure Cloud Engineering Consultant to architect, design, build, and secure the Azure cloud foundation for modern data platforms. You will lead landing zones, networking, identity, and IaC across multiple client engagements, delivering production-ready solutions.

Remote/hybrid role with contract engagement; you will collaborate with client cloud, security, and data teams to ensure architecture aligns with enterprise standards and governance.