Architect
Description
At Sequoia Connect , we are a Talent-First Technology Ecosystem that redefines how elite professionals interact with the global digital landscape. We move beyond traditional models to act as a catalyst for the top 1% of global talent, connecting human potential with complex industrial execution. By joining our inner circle, you are not simply taking a position; you are aligning with a strategic partner dedicated to updating your "Human OS" and accelerating your growth through world-class, high-impact projects.
We are currently partnering with a global IT powerhouse that represents the connected world through innovative, customer-centric experiences. As a USD 6 billion organization and one of the top 7 IT service providers globally, our client empowers over 1,200 global customers—including several Fortune 500 companies—to "Rise™." With a massive network of 163,000+ professionals across 90 countries, they are at the absolute forefront of digital transformation, leveraging next-generation technologies such as 5G, AI, Blockchain, and Quantum Computing.
This is your chance to thrive in a workplace recognized as one of the most sustainable corporations in the world. You will join an environment that values innovation and societal impact, working on end-to-end digital transformation projects for global leaders. If you are a driven professional looking for global career opportunities and exposure to high-impact projects within an international network of expertise, this is where you belong.
We are currently searching for a Contract Architect:
The Challenge (Responsibilities)
- Partner with Product Managers, Business Analysts, and stakeholders to clarify outcomes, shape product vision, and translate requirements into pragmatic architecture options.
- Produce concise architecture blueprints, high-level and low-level designs, technical decision records, and implementation guidance for platform products.
- Design secure, scalable, and reusable services, APIs, datastore patterns, integration approaches, UX-facing capabilities, and common components.
- Work closely with engineering teams to turn architecture into implementation, including hands-on prototyping, code review, pair design, design assurance, and technical debt management.
- Select appropriate technologies, promote reuse, define development standards, and help create common frameworks or accelerators across the platform.
- Participate in planning and estimation, maintain the architecture backlog, and make trade-offs across cost, risk, quality, security, and time-to-market.
- Coordinate with other architects, security, platform, and engineering teams to align designs with enterprise standards and delivery constraints.
- Apply AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices responsibly to improve delivery, quality, documentation, testing, and developer productivity.
Your Profile (Requirements)
- Strong architecture experience across cloud-native application, integration, data, and security domains, with the judgment to balance governance and delivery pace.
- Hands-on software engineering capability in at least one modern language such as C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python, plus confidence reading and reviewing production code.
- Practical experience using agentic AI coding tools and AI-assisted delivery workflows (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex-style agents).
- Practical Azure experience, including compute, storage, networking, security, Azure Policy, Entra ID, RBAC, Key Vault, and tenant-aware identity patterns.
- Experience with APIs, microservices, containers, and Kubernetes (preferably AKS), plus CI/CD and DevSecOps practices using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub.
- Ability to design access management, authentication, and authorization patterns for users, services, and platform-to-platform integrations.
- Good understanding of compliance, in-application security, secure-by-design patterns, and operating with