Azure Solution Architect with VWAN Migration exp (10+ years exp)
Contract
Houston, TX
Role Overview
The Solution Architect will lead the architecture, design, governance, and execution of Enbridge's strategic migration from a traditional Hub-and-Spoke network architecture to Azure Virtual WAN (VWAN). This role requires a strong background in application development, solution design, and enterprise architecture, with the ability to bridge application, cloud, network, security, and infrastructure domains. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience designing and developing enterprise applications and transforming them into scalable, secure, cloud-based solutions. The architect will ensure that application and infrastructure migrations are executed together, minimizing risk while improving performance, resiliency, and operational efficiency.
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Key Responsibilities
1. Lead the end-to-end solution architecture, design, and governance for migration from Hub-and-Spoke to Azure VWAN, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, cloud, security, and application modernization standards.
2. Define and implement application-centric migration strategies, ensuring complete application stacks, including web applications, middleware, APIs, databases, integrations, and infrastructure components, are migrated cohesively.
3. Assess current-state applications and design target-state solution architectures that support scalability, resiliency, security, performance, and maintainability within Azure.
4. Perform comprehensive application portfolio assessments and dependency analysis, identifying relationships between DMZ-hosted applications, internal systems, databases, APIs, shared services, and third-party integrations.
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