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Solutions Architect - Microsoft Azure

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$70 - $91/hr

Drive solution enablement by creating technical assets such as deployment guides, whitepapers, and reference architectures. * Partner with VAST and Azure field teams in strategic customer engagements ...

VAST Data

Solutions Architect - Microsoft Azure

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$70 - $91/hr

Drive solution enablement by creating technical assets such as deployment guides, whitepapers, and reference architectures. * Partner with VAST and Azure field teams in strategic customer engagements ...

ClifyX

Azure Microsoft Solution Architect

Billerica, MA · On-site

$67.50 - $88/hr

ClifyX is a company seeking an Azure Microsoft Solution Architect to enhance their cloud capabilities. The role involves planning, designing, and architecting Microsoft Azure environments ...

1 point system

Azure Solution Architect

New York, NY · Remote

$65 - $84.75/hr

Must have Azure * Azure Certified Cloud Expert a huge plus * Does not want a Infrastructure SA ... Does not want a Tech Mgr. * Must have solid end to end Solutions Architect skills Must have exp ...

Argyllinfotech

Senior Azure Solutions Architect

New York, NY · On-site

$69.50 - $90.50/hr

... Solution/Cloud Architecture experience 5+ years of hands-on Microsoft Azure Architecture Azure App Services, AKS, Azure Functions, API Management Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, Azure Storage Azure ...

1 point system

Solution Architect - Azure / .NET

Campbell, CA · On-site

$73.50 - $95.75/hr

Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect with a strong background in Microsoft Azure and .NET technologies to lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and high ...

Colorado Railroad Museum

Solution Architecture & Design * Design end-to-end solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Copilot, and AI technologies. * Develop architecture blueprints, integration ...

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Azure Solution Architect - Industrial IoT

Groton, CT • Remote

Applied Information Sciences
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$63.25 - $82.25/hr

Full-time

Re-posted 26 days ago

Job description

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you're joining a mission-driven team that's passionate about making a difference. You'll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

  • Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company's success, and you share in its achievements.

  • Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

  • Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone's voice is valued.

  • Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

What are we looking for?

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

Working@AIS
At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Infrastructure Architect.

  • Core Knowledge & Skills: Architects scalable, resilient solutions; authors roadmaps and blueprints; integrates diverse components; advances automation (PowerShell/Python/Ansible) and governance/policy.

  • Work & Complexity: Leads architectural initiatives, establishes performance benchmarks, integrates systems at scale, researches emerging tech, and mitigates enterprise risk.

  • Quality & Independence: Ensures integrity, scalability, and cost/performance optimization; produces comprehensive design artifacts; sets and enforces standards with broad autonomy.

  • Teamwork & Communication: Leads architectural teams, builds strategic partnerships, institutionalizes knowledge management, and communicates designs and executiveready reports.

  • Consulting & Engagement: Delivers architectural consulting aligned to business strategy, proposes enterprise technologies, nurtures vendor alliances, and seeds new project opportunities.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Azure Solution Architect - Industrial IoT.

Position Summary
We are seeking an experiencedAzure Solution Architect - Industrial IoTto lead the design and deployment of secure, scalable, and reliable Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions in Microsoft Azure. This roleis responsible fortranslating operational technology (OT) and business requirements into end-to-end cloud and edge architectures that enable industrial connectivity, telemetry ingestion, device management, analytics, and operational insights. The ideal candidate brings deepexpertisein Azure services, industrial protocols, edge computing, cybersecurity, and systems integration across manufacturing, utilities, energy, or other industrial environments.This position is located on-site in Groton, CT.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture, design, and technical governance of Azure-based industrial IoT and edge solutions.

  • Defineend-to-endIIoTreference architectures spanning sensors, PLCs, SCADA/DCS systems, industrial gateways, edgecompute, cloud ingestion, storage, analytics, and visualization.

  • Design solutions using Azure services such asAzure IoT Operations, Azure IoT Hub, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Functions, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Arc, Azure Monitor, Microsoft Defender for IoT, and Azure Digital Twinsasappropriate.

  • Architect secure and resilient connectivity patterns between plant-floor assets and Azure, including edge-to-cloud messaging, store-and-forward, intermittent connectivity handling, and remote site deployment models.

  • Develop strategies for ingesting and normalizing data from industrial protocols and systems such asOPC UA, Modbus, MQTT, BACnet, DNP3, and proprietary OEM interfaces.

  • Collaborate with OT engineers, plant operations, cybersecurity teams, infrastructure teams, and software developers to ensure solutions align with operational requirements and safety constraints.

  • Define device onboarding, identity, certificate management, lifecycle management, patching, and remote operations models for field and plant devices.

  • Design data architectures that support real-time monitoring, historian integration, predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, asset performance management, and advanced analytics use cases.

  • Ensure architectures incorporate security-by-design principles, including zero trust, network segmentation, role-based access control,secretsmanagement, device hardening, and regulatory compliance.

  • Produce architecture artifacts including solution diagrams, interface definitions, security models, deployment patterns, migration plans, andimplementationroadmaps.

  • Provide technical leadership during pilots, proof-of-concepts, and production deployments, including design reviews, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.

  • Establish non-functional requirements for availability, scalability, latency, resiliency, observability, and disaster recovery.

  • Support cost modeling, environment sizing, and cloud consumption planning forIIoTworkloads.

  • Mentor engineering teams and provide architectural oversight across implementation and operational handoff.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8+ years of experience in solution architecture, cloud engineering, or enterprise systems integration.

  • 3+ years of experience designing or deployingindustrial IoT / OT-integrated solutionsin manufacturing, energy, utilities, transportation, mining, or similar industrial sectors.

  • Strong hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Azure architecture and services relevant to IoT, data, integration, security, and hybrid infrastructure.

  • Experience integrating cloud platforms with industrial environments, including PLCs, SCADA, MES, historians, industrial gateways, or plant-floor networks.

  • Understanding ofindustrial communications standards and protocols such asOPC UA, MQTT, and Modbus.

  • Experience with edge computing platforms, containerized workloads, and remote site deployment patterns.

  • Knowledge of OT and IoT cybersecurity principles, including asset visibility, network boundaries, device identity, certificate-based authentication, secure remote access, and threat monitoring.

  • Experience with infrastructure as code and automation using tools such asBicep, ARM, Terraform, PowerShell, or Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions.

  • Strong communicationskills with the ability to engage both executive stakeholdersand deeplytechnical engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Microsoft Azure certifications such asAzure Solutions Architect Expert,Azure Administrator,Azure Security Engineer, or IoT-related certifications.

  • Experience withAzure Arc-enabled Kubernetes, industrial edge gateways, or disconnected/low-connectivity operating environments.

  • Experience with historian platforms, time-series analytics, and digital twin modeling.

  • Familiarity with industrial cybersecurity standards and frameworks such asISA/IEC 62443, NIST CSF, NERC CIP, or sector-specific controls.

  • Experience designing solutions for regulated or high-assurance environments.

  • Knowledge of data engineering and visualization platforms such asPower BI, Synapse, Fabric, or third-party industrial analytics tools.

  • Background in application integration, API design, event-drivenarchitectures, and enterprise integration patterns.

At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member. The targeted base salary range for this role is $138,000-$209,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location. We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.

Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.

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