NET AZURE FSE ARCHITECT

Job Title: .NET / AZURE FSE ARCHITECT
Duration: 612 months
Location: ONSITE Washington DC
Work Type:
Rate: Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidates education work experience work location specific job duties certifications etc.

Job Summary:
The Azure Architect shall specialize in computing workload design. Primary focus will be on creating robust and efficient solutions for computeintensive workloads within the Azure cloud environment involving architecture design resource allocation highperformance computing serverless and eventdriven architecture security and compliance monitoring and troubleshooting. designing micro frontend patterns ensuring seamless integration across components and services. Technical architect will be leveraging React and related libraries (e.g. Redux Flux Webpack) for efficient UI development. Prior experience working as a solution architect involving Azure cloud is a must.

Experience: 15 to18 yrs

Required Skills:
About 15 years of experience in architecting/designing computeintensive solutions with Azure.
Preferable certification: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Proven track record of developing Azure architecture for largescale productiongrade applications
Indepth knowledge of .Net frameworks & Azure compute services (VMs Azure WebApps App Services Logic Apps Azure Kubernetes Service Azure Batch etc.).
Good to have frontend skills like Angular 218 & React JS
Familiarity with orchestration tools (Azure Resource Manager Terraform etc.).
Understanding of hybrid cloud scenarios
Ability to deliver functionality incrementally adopting agile practices
Experience with version control systems (e.g. Git)
Experience with IT projects in the Financial Industry
Experience with IT projects utilizing multiple technologies and frameworks particularly agile/hybrid agile.
Excellent problemsolving skills.
Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
Staying informed about emerging frontend technologies and trends.

Roles & Responsibilities:
Collaborate with stakeholders to understand workload requirements performance expectations and scalability needs.
Design compute architectures that optimize resource utilization minimize latency and enhance overall system performance.
Consider factors such as virtual machines (VMs) containers serverless computing and batch processing.
Determine the appropriate compute resources (VM sizes instance types etc.) based on workload characteristics.
Balance costeffectiveness with performance requirements.
Implement autoscaling strategies to handle varying workloads.
Be capable of designing for High availability and fault tolerance.
Optimize parallel processing GPU utilization and distributed computing.
Ensure efficient data movement and synchronization.
Be capable of designed transactional compute patterns with compensation patterns
Explore serverless computing options (Azure Functions Logic Apps etc.) for eventdriven workloads.
Design eventdriven workflows that respond dynamically to triggers.
Leverage Azure Event Grid and Azure Event Hubs.
Integrate security best practices into compute designs.
Implement access controls encryption and network segmentation.
Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Define monitoring metrics for compute resources.
Set up alerts logging and diagnostics.
Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and optimize resource utilization.
Design compute workloads utilizing networking components and micro segmentation
Familiarity with IAM Azure Policy and Private Link configuration
Provide a longterm vision for the platform considering changes in technology within the context of ITS current implementation and our feature roadmap.
Indepth understanding of the business environment its processes and complexities of the organization and apply the knowledge towards the proposed work program.
Design and validate solutions that are practical flexible resilient scalable reusable and strategic.
Promote componentbased development emphasizing reusability and consistency.
Recognize and identify potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change or where new ones need to be developed especially regarding future business expansion.
Present discuss and walk through the merits of the solutions recommendations with a group of enterprise architects.
Institute and lead the adoption of best practices and standards to improve the quality of the deliverables.
Ensure best practices are adhered to in the adoption of new technologies.
Architect solutions across multiple IT environments and Business system components envision solution for projects / programs / applications.
Research evaluate and select from existing and emerging technologies the options best fitting business and IT strategic needs.
Work closely with development teams bridging the gap between design and implementation.
Facilitate knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
Interact with other Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Platform teams to ensure that solutions are built in adherence with the defined enterprise standards.
Manage daily technical challenges and communicate with management if there are any risks or issues.
Wellversed in the latest technologies and tools being used to improve IT development and delivery.
Coordinate effort within different IT groups like Enterprise Architecture Office of Information Security Data Management Office as and when needed.
Understanding of security best practices and standards.
Work with stakeholders to offer contextualized technology strategies solutions and roadmaps which are aligned to their business needs.
Document key artifacts related to WBG application environments integration platforms data flows application inventories entityrelationships and process workflows.
Help build supporting frameworks for onpremises mobile cloudnative and hybrid solution architecture approaches and implementations aligned with specific business application requirements and constraints.
Identify the area in the architecture and design that are contributing towards technical Debt and provide recommendations to remediate same.
Work with other enterprise architecture team to align various solutions architecture to enterprise standard reference architecture patterns and best practices.
Identify technology trends which have the potential for the World Bank to accelerate the use of innovative digital platforms and/or hosting solutions.
Develop targetstate guidance (reusable standards guidelines individual parts and configurations) for evolving the technical infrastructure across the enterprise to enable business strategy and deliver business outcomes.

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