Cloud Solutions Architect - Azure

Job Description

About SAP Fioneer:

Innovation is and will always be the core of SAP Fioneer, and it is the promise of why we were spun out of SAP: agility, innovation, and delivery.

SAP Fioneer builds on a heritage of outstanding technology and a deep understanding of corporate and consumer demands. At the heart of it all it is simple: We bring financial services to the next level with innovative software solutions and platforms.

We are helping companies in the financial services industry to achieve speed, scalability, and cost-efficiency through digital business innovation, cloud technology, and solutions that cover banking and insurance processes end-to-end.

A global company, with rapid growth, innovative people, and a lean organization makes SAP Fioneer a place where you accelerate your future!

Job Location

You can work remotely from any location in Germany, UK, Serbia or Romania

About the Role:

We are currently seeking a talented and experienced Senior Cloud Solutions Architect specializing in Azure to join our internal IT team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing complex cloud-based solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform. This role requires a deep understanding of Azure services, architecture principles, and best practices to create scalable, secure, and efficient cloud environments.

Your responsibilities will include:

• A broad range of technical expertise, and extensive knowledge spanning various aspects of Azure cloud such as compute, storage, networking, databases, security, and identity management.

• Working in a scrum team, with sprints and a backlog.
• Designing and documenting architecture blueprints and solution patterns for Azure-based applications.
• Providing technical guidance and mentorship to other members of the cross functional scrum team.
• Experience building out closed loop data driven DevOps supporting architectures that utilize tools like azure insights to capture key metrics and pipe them back to different stakeholders to provide real time feedback on factors impacting themes like, security, scalability, performance, etc.
• Experience in building out hierarchical organization governance via “Management groups” in Azure.
• Solid experience with code driven administration practices. E.g. legacy native azure PowerShell modules and more recently the MgGraph modules backed by source control (git repo) to automate common operations.
• Strong Base level competencies is core web technologies and computer fundamentals, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, PKI, etc.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC), continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), source control (Git), pipeline automation (Github Actions / Azure DevOps).
• Modern Authentication in relation to IdP (AzureAD / EntraID), SAML and OpenID Connect, AzureAD B2C.
• General IaM architecture experience building standards that support RBAC and maintain the IdP (EntraID) as the centralized command and control point in an organization.

Requirements

• A broad range of technical expertise, and extensive knowledge spanning various aspects of Azure cloud such as compute, storage, networking, databases, security, and identity management.

• Working in a scrum team, with sprints and a backlog.
• Designing and documenting architecture blueprints and solution patterns for Azure-based applications.
• Providing technical guidance and mentorship to other members of the cross functional scrum team.
• Experience building out closed loop data driven DevOps supporting architectures that utilize tools like azure insights to capture key metrics and pipe them back to different stakeholders to provide real time feedback on factors impacting themes like, security, scalability, performance, etc.
• Experience in building out hierarchical organization governance via “Management groups” in Azure.
• Solid experience with code driven administration practices. E.g. legacy native azure PowerShell modules and more recently the MgGraph modules backed by source control (git repo) to automate common operations.
• Strong Base level competencies is core web technologies and computer fundamentals, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, PKI, etc.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC), continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), source control (Git), pipeline automation (Github Actions / Azure DevOps).
• Modern Authentication in relation to IdP (AzureAD / EntraID), SAML and OpenID Connect, AzureAD B2C.
• General IaM architecture experience building standards that support RBAC and maintain the IdP (EntraID) as the centralized command and control point in an organization.
• Experience with around delivering SaaS on Azure.
• Experience in SAP on Azure environments such as S/4HANA or SAP ERP is an advantage 
• Any experience with tools like Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes is a plus.

Benefits

Our employee benefits package includes a gym membership, generous 27 days of paid time off, a flexible work and time environment, access to internal and external training opportunities, thoughtful anniversary and birthday gifts, the option to select equipment according to personal preference, and a dedicated work phone.
We prioritize your well-being and professional development