- Company Name
- ClearSource
- Job Title
- Freelance Senior Technical Architect
- Job Description
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**Job Title:** Freelance Senior Technical Architect
**Role Summary:**
Designs and governs complex, cloud‑native IT solutions with a focus on scalability, security, performance, and long‑term maintainability. Aligns technical standards with enterprise architecture, collaborates with domain architects, engineering teams, and stakeholders, and provides hands‑on leadership throughout implementation and modernization efforts.
**Expectations:**
- Minimum 12 years of IT experience, including extensive solution and system architecture work.
- Proven track record delivering Azure‑based, microservices and event‑driven architectures at enterprise scale.
- Ability to define and enforce standards, conduct architecture/code reviews, and mentor engineering teams.
- Strong analytical mindset, pragmatic assessment of emerging technologies, and effective communication with technical and non‑technical audiences.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Define overall system architecture ensuring scalability, security, resilience, and maintainability.
- Design cloud‑native, microservices, event‑driven, and SOA solutions on Microsoft Azure.
- Establish and enforce technology standards, integration patterns, and governance policies.
- Translate business and operational requirements into technical designs.
- Lead architecture, code, and security reviews; optimize performance and conduct compliance assessments.
- Manage technical implementation coordination, DevOps pipeline design, and IaC (Terraform, Bicep) deployment.
- Oversee containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and configuration management (Ansible).
- Drive legacy application modernization and refactoring initiatives.
- Act as technical ambassador, providing guidance and coaching across multiple teams.
**Required Skills:**
- Deep expertise in Azure IaaS, PaaS, SaaS architecture and governance.
- Microservices, event‑driven, and Service‑Oriented Architecture design.
- DevOps practices: CI/CD pipeline design, Terraform/Bicep, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Linux systems, containerization, Tomcat administration.
- Security principles, resilience patterns, performance tuning.
- Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and stakeholder‑influence abilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; coaching and leadership presence.
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).
- Relevant certifications preferred (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, TOGAF, Certified Kubernetes Administrator).