Role Overview:The Solution Architect will lead the architecture, design, governance, and execution of Enbridge's strategic migration from a traditional Hub-and-Spoke network architecture to Azure Virtual WAN (VWAN). This role demands a strong background in application development, solution design, and enterprise architecture, bridging application, cloud, network, security, and infrastructure domains to transform applications into scalable, secure, cloud-based solutions.
Key Responsibilities:- Lead end-to-end solution architecture, design, and governance for migration from Hub-and-Spoke to Azure VWAN, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.
- Define and implement application-centric migration strategies for complete application stacks, including web applications, middleware, APIs, databases, and integrations.
- Assess current-state applications and design target-state solution architectures supporting scalability, resiliency, security, and performance within Azure.
- Oversee the transit firewall decommissioning strategy and lead the implementation of Web Application Firewall (WAF) architecture and compliance standards in Azure.
- Design and govern network architecture within Azure VWAN, including routing, traffic engineering, User Defined Routes (UDRs), and hybrid-cloud integration.
- Develop migration patterns, reference architectures, standards, and playbooks covering re-IP strategies, domain migration, DNS updates, and data migration.
- Provide hands-on architectural support during migration execution, troubleshooting complex issues, and optimizing performance during critical cutover windows.
- Collaborate closely with Application Development, Cloud Engineering, Network, Security, and other teams, presenting solution strategies to senior leaders and stakeholders.
Required Skills:- Proven experience designing and developing enterprise applications using technologies such as .NET, Java, Python, REST APIs, microservices, and integration frameworks.
- Demonstrated expertise in enterprise application architecture, integration design, and cloud transformation initiatives.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including Azure Virtual WAN (VWAN), networking, identity, security, platform services, and cloud-native architectures.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, application security, and infrastructure-as-code principles.
- Experience performing application dependency mapping, architecture assessments, and migration planning for large-scale enterprise environments.
- Working knowledge of enterprise networking, firewalls, load balancers, DNS, identity services, and hybrid-cloud connectivity.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Qualifications:- 10+ years of experience in application development, software engineering, solution design, and architecture roles.
Preferred Skills:- Experience leading large-scale cloud migration, data center transformation, or DMZ modernization programs.
- Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305).
- TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent enterprise architecture certification.
- Experience with container platforms (AKS, OpenShift, Kubernetes), API management, and modern application architectures.
- Experience in regulated industries with strong security and compliance requirements.
