Azure Architect

Location / Remote: Hybrid in Cleveland, OH, 44143 (1 day per week onsite). Employment Type: 6-month W-2 contract (possibility to extend for multiple years) Compensation: up to 100/hour W-2 (depending on experience). Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, LTD/STD, HSA/FSA, term life, and supplemental health insurances (e.g., Aflac) for all employees (and their families if needed).

This senior, hands-on Software Architect role focuses on building and stabilizing cloud integration services on the Microsoft stack. You will design integration patterns, write and ship production C#/.NET code, and improve reliability of event-driven and API-based workflows on Azure. Success is measured by integration pipelines that are resilient, observable, and easier to operate, with clear architecture decisions that teams can execute.

• Design and implement enterprise integration architectures using REST APIs, microservices, asynchronous messaging, and event-driven patterns.
• Build and maintain production services in C#/.NET/.NET Core, including core integration components and shared libraries.
• Develop and operate Azure-based integration solutions using Azure Functions, Service Bus, and API Management to support secure, scalable connectivity.
• Diagnose and resolve failures in production integration pipelines, driving issues from detection through root-cause analysis and permanent corrective action.
• Define reliability patterns such as idempotency, retries, dead-letter handling, message validation, and back-pressure to reduce incidents and data inconsistencies.
• Establish observability standards across integrations, including structured logging, correlation IDs, metrics, alerts, and actionable telemetry dashboards.
• Review and guide technical designs and code changes to ensure performance, maintainability, and alignment with integration architecture standards.
• Partner with engineering stakeholders to plan and deliver integration enhancements, balancing near-term stabilization with longer-term modernization.

8 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with significant recent production development in C#/.NET/.NET Core, including writing and supporting production code. Hands-on experience implementing Azure integrations using Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and Azure API Management. Strong background in enterprise integration architecture across REST APIs, microservices, asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems.

Experience with SQL and data transformation concepts to support integration mapping, validation, and reconciliation workflows. Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices, including build/release automation and environment promotion for integration services. Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to speed up development, debugging, test generation, or operational automation. Demonstrated track record stabilizing failing or unstable production integration pipelines through systematic troubleshooting and remediation. Deep operability expertise, including idempotency, retries, validation, failure handling, observability, logging/telemetry, and root-cause analysis practices.

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