Azure Solution Architect – Development & Integration

About This Role

This role evaluates a candidate’s ability to act as a hands-on Solution Architect responsible for designing, guiding, and delivering enterprise-grade modernization of a mission-critical financial services platform.

The ideal candidate must demonstrate both:

• Strong architecture leadership
• Practical hands-on engineering capability

Core Competency Areas

1. Enterprise Architecture & Solution Design

• Ability to design end-to-end enterprise solutions
• Experience aligning legacy systems to target-state architecture
• Understanding of scalability, performance, security, and resilience

2. Microsoft Technology Stack Expertise

Must demonstrate strong hands-on experience in:

• C# / .NET (Visual Studio 2017+)
• SQL Server (2014+) and T-SQL
• SSRS (Reporting Services)

3. Application & Integration Development

• REST and SOAP API design and integration
• MVC and Web Forms architecture
• JavaScript-based UI development
• Integration of enterprise systems and workflows

4. Data Architecture & Engineering

• Data modeling and enterprise data design
• Handling multi-source data environments
• Data consistency, transformation, and structure evolution

5. Performance & Production Engineering

• SQL performance tuning and optimization
• Debugging complex production issues
• Root cause analysis and resolution ownership

6. Testing Strategy & Quality Engineering

• Unit, integration, regression testing design
• Test automation exposure (Visual Studio preferred)
• Ability to define enterprise testing frameworks

7. Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Translating business requirements into technical solutions
• Leading technical workshops with business and engineering teams
• Providing architectural direction and effort estimation

8. Modernization & Legacy Transformation

• Experience modernizing legacy enterprise systems
• Migration planning and execution
• Ensuring functional parity during transformation

Required Technical Stack (Must-Have)

Candidates must demonstrate hands-on proficiency in:

• C# / .NET Framework (Visual Studio 2017+)
• SQL Server 2014+ (T-SQL, performance tuning)
• SSRS (report development & integration)
• REST / SOAP APIs
• MVC / Web Forms
• JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, Select2, Moment.js (or similar UI libraries)

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Salesforce integration experience
• Cloud exposure (Azure preferred)
• API gateway or microservices modernization experience

Candidate Attributes

Candidates must demonstrate:

• Strong ownership mindset (end-to-end accountability)
• Ability to operate in fast-paced delivery environments
• Strong communication across technical and business stakeholders
• Ability to balance architecture thinking with hands-on execution

High Priority (Must Demonstrate Clearly)

• Enterprise architecture experience (5+ years)
• Total years of experience 10+ years
• Hands-on C# / .NET + SQL Server expertise
• API design + system integration experience
• Ability to lead technical solution design
• Financial services experience
• Testing strategy ownership
• Legacy modernization experience
• Salesforce integrations
• Azure cloud-native architecture experience

Urgency

• Immediate interviews in progress
• Fast turnaround hiring decision cycle
• Only candidates meeting availability requirement should proceed

Application

Apply: sasha@talenttohire.com