# Senior Architect

**Company**: Syneos Health
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Syneos Health is seeking a Senior Architect to lead the design of complex enterprise and cloud-native architectures. The ideal candidate will have 12+ years of overall IT experience in software development and architecture, with a minimum of 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure.

**Job Responsibilities**

- Lead design of complex enterprise and cloud-native architectures

- Define architecture patterns including microservices, APIs, and distributed systems

- Translate business requirements into technical designs and specifications

- Drive application modernization and migration strategies

- Design solutions using Azure services such as App Services, Functions, Azure SQL, Blob Storage, and Key Vault

- Architect secure, scalable, and cost-optimized cloud environments

- Implement identity and access management using Azure AD, SSO, OAuth/OpenID

- Enable monitoring, logging, and observability frameworks

- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams

- Ensure adherence to architectural standards and best practices

- Define governance frameworks and reusable architecture patterns

- Lead and mentor engineering teams

- Drive CI/CD and DevOps practices using Azure DevOps and GitHub

- Design enterprise integration using APIs and messaging systems

- Ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, and security requirements

- Collaborate with business stakeholders to align solutions with objectives

- Contribute to proposals, roadmaps, and technical strategy

**Desired Qualifications**

- 12+ years of overall IT experience in software development and architecture

- Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure

- Minimum 3+ years of experience in an Application Architect/Solution Architect role

- Proven experience designing cloud-native applications using Azure and microservices architecture

- Strong expertise in API-driven architectures, distributed systems, and enterprise application design

- Experience leading end-to-end solution delivery from architecture through implementation

- Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams of 7–10+ developers

- Experience working in Agile delivery environments and collaborating with cross-functional teams

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification (AZ-305 or equivalent)

- Clinical, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, or GxP-regulated environment experience

- Knowledge of Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices

- Experience with application modernization and enterprise integrations

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Azure
- cloud-native applications
- microservices architecture
- API-driven architectures
- distributed systems
- enterprise application design
- Azure AD
- SSO
- OAuth/OpenID
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub
- CI/CD pipelines
- DevOps practices

### Nice to have
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification (AZ-305 or equivalent)
- Clinical, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, or GxP-regulated environment experience
- application modernization
- enterprise integrations

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