Azure Architect

We are seeking an Azure Architect to lead the Azure side of a complex multi-platform, multi-discipline project, driving integration architecture across enterprise observability, ITSM, monitoring, and developer portal platforms. Responsibilities Define the integration architecture, including API contracts, data models, authentication patterns, and event flows, to connect Backstage with enterprise observability, ITSM, and monitoring platforms Architect the monitoring integration capability by embedding dashboards such as Grafana/LGTM per catalog entity, covering entity-to-dashboard mapping and authentication passthrough Design the ArgoCD integration, covering plugin integration, API authentication, entity-annotation mapping, and RBAC projection, to provide deployment-status visibility within the developer portal Own the announcements and notifications integration, including upstream plugin configuration, notification channels like email and Teams webhooks, and publisher RBAC, to support platform-wide communication Establish the databases visibility integration through read-only metadata collectors for Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Postgres, along with a search integration using Elasticsearch/pgsearch backend and catalog/TechDocs indexers Architect the SDD document generation capability, defining how architecture documentation is produced from repository/catalog metadata and infrastructure-as-code module outputs, triggered through Backstage actions/templates Design dashboards, reporting, and enterprise-integration views across Backstage, infrastructure, and integration workstreams to ensure consistent, permission-aware presentation of service health and dependency data Coordinate with the Backstage Architect on plugin and data-model alignment, and with the Azure and VMware Architects to ensure infrastructure telemetry and metadata are properly surfaced in the portal Provide integration-architecture governance during implementation, validate end-to-end service visibility, and support monitoring, reconciliation, and documentation-generation processes during adoption Requirements 2+ years of experience architecting system integrations with Azure and Azure DevOps Expertise in Azure/Entra authentication mechanisms Experience integrating cloud database platforms, including Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Postgres, for read-only metadata and observability purposes Experience leading projects with complex architectures involving Azure-based services and third-party platform integrations such as VMware and networking devices Experience designing automated documentation-generation pipelines from structured metadata sources English proficiency at B2 level or higher Nice to have Experience integrating infrastructure management platforms based on the Backstage framework or similar Familiarity with notification and communication integrations