Lead Azure Architect

87485
Austin, Texas
Permanent/Direct Hire
20 hours ago
Job Title: Lead Azure Architect

Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid)

Estimated Duration: Fulltime

Cloud Architect – Azure Data (Consulting)
We’re looking for a Cloud Architect to join a growing Microsoft-focused consulting practice. This is a net-new, full-time role supporting US-based client engagements, with a strong emphasis on hands-on Azure data delivery and client-facing solutioning.
Location: United States. Preference for Texas (Austin ideal). Hybrid based on client needs.
What You’ll Be Doing

  • Design, build, and optimize Azure-based data platforms and architectures
  • Lead hands-on development using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Synapse
  • Assess current-state environments and define future-state solutions
  • Work directly with clients to understand business requirements and translate them into technical designs
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor across delivery and solution discussions
  • Support presales activities, including solution design, scoping, and effort estimates
  • Collaborate with delivery teams across multiple client engagements

What We’re Looking For

  • 7+ years of experience in Azure data engineering and architecture
  • Background in consulting or professional services
  • Comfortable balancing technical delivery and presales support
  • Confident, polished client-facing communication skills
  • Experience with SQL and modern data platforms
  • US work authorization (no sponsorship at this time)

Nice to Have

  • Microsoft Fabric experience
  • Azure certifications
  • Python, Scala, or Spark experience

This role is ideal for someone who wants to stay hands-on technically, while also influencing solution design and client strategy.
 

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is between $140,000 and $165,000

Our benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and 401k.

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Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Information Technology and Engineering staffing and consulting services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. Rather than continually trying to sell to new clients and companies and simply filling databases with candidates, we focus on developing stronger relationships and deeper knowledge of our existing clients’ challenges and opportunities.  We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.