Senior Azure Cloud Solutions Architect

Duration: 6-months

The City of Calgary is seeking an experienced Senior Azure Cloud Solutions Architect to provide technical leadership for the design, implementation, and operationalization of a new Microsoft Azure environment supporting a Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) solution.

This is a Senior, hands-on consulting role supporting a complex, security-sensitive environment involving multiple City and public-safety stakeholders. The successful consultant will combine strong Azure solution architecture expertise with practical experience implementing and supporting Azure and Microsoft Entra ID services.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, configuration, and operationalization of a new Microsoft Azure tenant.
• Design and implement Microsoft Entra ID identity, authentication, and authorization services.
• Configure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Conditional Access, Single Sign-On (SSO), and enterprise application authentication.
• Integrate on-premises Active Directory and Microsoft 365 services with Azure and Entra ID as required.
• Provide Azure architecture leadership for the integration of a new Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) solution.
• Design solutions for security, availability, resiliency, auditing, and operational supportability.
• Lead proof-of-concept testing, technical troubleshooting, configuration, and production-readiness activities.
• Develop architecture diagrams, technical documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
• Collaborate with City technology teams, vendors, and public-safety partners, including Calgary Police Service, RCMP, Calgary Fire Department, and Bylaw Services.
• Provide knowledge transfer, technical guidance, and mentorship to City staff.

The successful consultant will have:

• Significant Senior-level experience architecting, implementing, and operationalizing Microsoft Azure environments.
• Demonstrated experience as an Azure Cloud Architect, Solution Architect, or Senior Azure technical lead.
• Advanced hands-on experience with Microsoft Entra ID, including MFA, Conditional Access, SSO, enterprise applications, authentication, and authorization.
• Experience integrating Active Directory, Entra ID, Azure, and Microsoft 365 services.
• Strong knowledge of Azure security, identity, governance, logging, auditing, resiliency, and operational best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to move solutions from architecture and design through implementation and operational support.
• Strong technical troubleshooting, documentation, stakeholder-management, and communication skills.

Ideal Candidate

The City is seeking a Senior Azure professional who can establish the technical architecture, participate directly in implementation and configuration, resolve complex technical issues, and successfully transition the resulting environment to City operational teams.

Essential Skills

1. Six (6) years' experience in a solutions architecture role managing Azure tenants and establishing Identity, operational and application services;
2. Four (4) years managing local Active Directory services, and/or Azure AD (Entra ID) services for organization(s);
3. Four (4) years' architecting experience with Identity management, Single Sign-on, Access management and Customer Identity and Access management (CIAM) solution for organizations of more than 5,000 employees;
4. Four (4) years' experience leading and establishing security practices for cloud applications;
5. Four (4) years' experience leading and establishing operational guidelines for Azure Cloud services, establishing Proof-of-Concept test cases, validation and remediation.

Desired Skills

1. Four (4) years' architecting experience with Microsoft Azure AD Single Sign On, MFA, and conditional Access operations.
2. Three (3) years' hands-on development and customization experience on SSO solutions with SAML, OAuth2, and OpenID Connect protocols.
3. Five (5) years' system analysis experience including requirement gathering, workshop facilitating, solution recommendation and validation, test plan creation on Identity and Access management solutions.
4. Demonstrated knowledge about a variety of Cloud tenant solutions (Azure, AWS, GCP).
5. Demonstrated knowledge working with life safety Organizations (Police/RCMP/Fire).
6. Excellent verbal and written communication skills to communicate both internally and externally with personnel at all levels.
7. Previous work experience in the public sector or large organizations.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Calgary, AB.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $95.00 - $115.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Calgary, AB.