Job Description

We currently have a career opportunity for a Senior Azure Solutions Architect to join our team, located in the United States. You will serve as the lead technical architect on a strategic Financial Services and Insurance client engagement, with the opportunity to shape both delivery and presales for the account.

Job Overview: This role begins as a hands-on Azure Foundations and governance engagement and is expected to evolve into a longer-term staff augmentation relationship spanning IAM remediation, audit readiness, Azure governance, and an active backlog of Azure infrastructure and platform initiatives delivered in an agile, iterative model.

This is a highly visible, client-facing role. The ideal candidate combines deep, current Azure architecture expertise with the presence and communication skills to advise client stakeholders directly - including IT leadership and audit/compliance teams - and is equally comfortable supporting pre-sales efforts (scoping, SOW input, solution positioning) for follow-on and adjacent opportunities.

Responsibilities

Azure Discovery & Governance

• Lead current-state discovery across management groups, IAM, Azure Policy, and resource configuration, identifying gaps against standardization and best-practice baselines.

• Assess and remediate Azure hierarchy and RBAC structures, including Management Group design and Platform/Application Landing Zone alignment.

• Design and implement new IAM structures and shared-resource patterns to support Azure Landing Zone (ALZ) alignment.

Identity & Access Management

• Own IAM cleanup and remediation end-to-end: inventory current permissions, identify service principals and user access, and reapply least-privilege access at the subscription and resource-group level.

• Drive Conditional Access inventory, consolidation, and simplification, and lead Privileged Identity Management (PIM) design and governance alignment.

• Align RBAC and management group access models to Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) principles, and define a repeatable testing approach for validating access changes.

• Partner with the client's audit stakeholders to translate audit findings into a clear, actionable definition of done, and drive remediation to closure on an agile timeline.

Policy, Infrastructure-as-Code & Platform Engineering

• Lead Azure Policy implementation, including Enterprise Policy as Code (EPaC) setup, ALZ policy framework alignment, and policy deployment/exemption management.
• • Review and evolve Terraform resource modules and landing zone modules to improve Well-Architected Framework (WAF) and CAF alignment, and assess policy-effect alignment with Terraform supportability.
  
  
  • Drive Infrastructure-as-Code operationalization and backlog execution, including codifying security baselines into IaC and enabling Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM).
  
  
  • Provide architectural recommendations for App Service configuration and integration with other Azure services, and support GitHub migration for IaC and artifact repositories.
  
  Client Delivery & Presales Support
• • Serve as the trusted, day-to-day technical advisor to the client, operating in a highly agile manner against an evolving backlog and re-prioritizing alongside the client as audit findings and new requirements emerge.
  
  
  • Support internal knowledge transfer and onboarding of new team members as the engagement scales, ensuring consistent methodology and delivery quality.
  
  
  • Contribute to presales activities as needed - including scoping conversations, Statement of Work (SOW) input, and solution/technical positioning - for follow-on work and adjacent opportunities.

Qualifications

• • 15+ years of professional experience in enterprise IT infrastructure and cloud architecture, with deep, current hands-on Azure expertise.
• • Demonstrated expertise across Azure governance, landing zones, Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), Well-Architected Framework (WAF), IAM/RBAC, and security.
• • Hands-on proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code practices in an enterprise Azure environment.
• • Experience with Azure Policy at scale, including Policy-as-Code approaches (e.g., EPAC) and ALZ policy frameworks.
• • Strong track record advising C-suite and senior client stakeholders, with the presence and communication skills to lead client discussions independently.
• • Experience operating in regulated industries (financial services, insurance, healthcare, or similar), including audit readiness and compliance-driven remediation.
• • Demonstrated capability supporting presales motions - solution scoping, SOW development, and technical/solution positioning - alongside active delivery work.
• • Active, current Azure certifications required; Azure Solutions Architect Expert and/or Cybersecurity Architect Expert strongly preferred.
• • Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support data-informed task execution.
• • Bachelor's degree or commensurate experience.

Preferred Skills and Education:

• • Experience with Conditional Access and Privileged Identity Management (PIM) design at an enterprise scale.
• • Familiarity with Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) and GitHub-based IaC/artifact repository migrations.
• • Multi-cloud exposure (AWS, GCP) and FinOps experience.
• • Prior experience in a consulting or professional services delivery model, including staff augmentation engagements

Perficient full-time employees receive complete and competitive benefits. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, generous work/life opportunities and an outstanding benefits package that includes paid time off plus holidays. In addition, all colleagues are eligible for a number of rewards and recognition programs including billable bonus opportunities. Encouraging a healthy work/life balance and providing our colleagues great benefits are just part of what makes Perficient a great place to work.

Disclaimer: The above statements are not intended to be a complete statement of job content, rather to act as a guide to the essential functions performed by the employee assigned to this classification. Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of the position at any time.

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