Azure Solution Architect – Development & Integration
Industry: Financial Services Banking / regulated enterprise environments / Mortgages
Candidates must be available to start immediately or within 2 weeks maximum.
Applications not meeting this requirement should not proceed.
This role evaluates a candidate’s ability to act as a hands-on Solution Architect responsible for designing, guiding, and delivering enterprise-grade modernization of a mission-critical financial services platform.
The ideal candidate must demonstrate both:
🧪 Core Competency Areas 1. Enterprise Architecture & Solution Design
Ability to design end-to-end enterprise solutions
Experience aligning legacy systems to target-state architecture
Understanding of scalability, performance, security, and resilience
2. Microsoft Technology Stack Expertise
Must demonstrate strong hands-on experience in:
C# / .NET (Visual Studio 2017+)
SQL Server (2014+) and T-SQL
SSRS (Reporting Services)
3. Application & Integration Development
REST and SOAP API design and integration
MVC and Web Forms architecture
JavaScript-based UI development
Integration of enterprise systems and workflows
4. Data Architecture & Engineering
Data modeling and enterprise data design
Handling multi-source data environments
Data consistency, transformation, and structure evolution
5. Performance & Production Engineering
SQL performance tuning and optimization
Debugging complex production issues
Root cause analysis and resolution ownership
6. Testing Strategy & Quality Engineering
Unit, integration, regression testing design
Test automation exposure (Visual Studio preferred)
Ability to define enterprise testing frameworks
7. Leadership & Stakeholder Management
Translating business requirements into technical solutions
Leading technical workshops with business and engineering teams
Providing architectural direction and effort estimation
8. Modernization & Legacy Transformation
Experience modernizing legacy enterprise systems
Migration planning and execution
Ensuring functional parity during transformation
🧩 Required Technical Stack (Must-Have)
Candidates must demonstrate hands-on proficiency in:
C# / .NET Framework (Visual Studio 2017+)
SQL Server 2014+ (T-SQL, performance tuning)
SSRS (report development & integration)
REST / SOAP APIs
MVC / Web Forms
JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, Select2, Moment.js (or similar UI libraries)
⭐ Nice-to-Have Skills
Salesforce integration experience
Cloud exposure (Azure preferred)
API gateway or microservices modernization experience
Candidates must demonstrate:
Strong ownership mindset (end-to-end accountability)
Ability to operate in fast-paced delivery environments
Strong communication across technical and business stakeholders
Ability to balance architecture thinking with hands-on execution
High Priority (Must Demonstrate Clearly):
Enterprise architecture experience (5+ years), total years of experience 10+ years.
Hands-on C# / .NET + SQL Server expertise
API design + system integration experience
Ability to lead technical solution design
Financial services experience
Testing strategy ownership
Legacy modernization experience
Salesforce integrations
Azure cloud-native architecture experience
⏱️ Urgency Flag
Immediate interviews in progress
Fast turnaround hiring decision cycle
Only candidates meeting availability requirement should proceed
Apply: sasha@talenttohire.com