IT - Azure Applications Architect

Azure Applications Architect
Mohawk Medbuy Corporation (MMC) is a national, not-for-profit, shared services organization that supports hundreds of health care providers across Canada, as well as child welfare agencies and other public sector organizations. MMC provides value-driven contracting and procurement solutions for medical/surgical supplies, pharmaceutical products, local sourcing, capital (equipment, FF&E and redevelopment) and nutrition solutions. Other services include data analytics, in-hospital logistics, warehousing, technology, procure-to-pay and accounts payable.
With an emerging focus on sustainability and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples, MMC is actively supporting the creation of a resilient value chain that incorporates environmental, social and governance best practices. Based in Burlington, ON, the organization also has offices in Toronto, Oakville, Thunder Bay, Kingston, Brantford, London and Chatham, and a distribution centre in Oakville. Learn more: www.mohawkmedbuy.ca.
We are currently recruiting for an Azure Applications Architect to support our IT team. This is a hybrid model, requiring three days in office and two days remote. This role can be located out of our Toronto, Burlington, or London offices.

Position Overview

The Azure Applications Architect designs and implements functionality to automate processes that simplify tasks needing to be completed. This includes research, design, documenting, maintaining, modifying software specifications. Responsible for developing and maintaining interfaces/integration and connectivity between heterogeneous applications. Incumbent also provides support to web and ERP developers in the architecting development, coding and testing of software solutions on Azure Platform. Provide additional support for network and database administration and end user support on Cloud based platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Operational Management:

Lead the design and architecture of external customer business systems ensuring they align with business/corporate objectives.
Facilitate discussions with business and technical stakeholders to extract critical business requirements and present a holistic functional and technical vision and solutions in the form of software products, customizations, and integrations to meet those needs.
Oversee the technical implementation of multiple medium to large-sized IT business initiatives/projects, ensuring best practices and methodologies are followed. Accordingly, Track, monitor, and communicate status against the project plan, requirements, quality and value measures, standard processes, and milestones.
Provide technical guidance and support throughout the project/solutions lifecycle.
Develop and maintain architectural documentation and end-to-end integrated solution blueprints.
Identify areas for improvement and innovation within existing systems for increased scalability, responsiveness, utilization and availability.
Follow and improve, procedures, methodologies, governance and standards to ensure effective technical solution design, management of vendors and customers, and maintenance of the ‘one build’ concept in the shared services environment.
Communicates complex topics regarding solutions and related projects to audiences both with and without deep technical skills.
Support ERP and web developers with creation and maintenance of features and functionality on Azure.

Strategy & Planning

Provide input and direction to team related to integration of systems
Ensure that integration projects meet business requirements, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify and resolve systems issues.
Design and communicate guidelines to limit interruption of work due to errors or bugs that occur
Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of systems, development efforts, and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness, systems flexibility and innovation.
Collaborate with various departments to establish overarching strategies to ensure consistent and accurate flow of information between systems.

Acquisition & Development

Work with team to plan software promotions and act as the “gatekeeper” between development and production systems.

Qualifications and Skills

Education, Training, and Experience

Design and implement scalable, secure cloud-based solutions using Microsoft Azure services
Translate business requirements into technical architecture and cloud-native application designs
Lead architecture design, integration, and deployment of Azure applications and services
Define and implement cloud architecture standards, security, and compliance frameworks
Collaborate with stakeholders, developers, and operations teams to ensure end-to-end solution delivery
Develop and enforce DevOps practices (CI/CD, automation, Infrastructure as Code) for Azure environments
Guide cloud migration strategies from on-premises systems to Azure Cloud Solutions
Monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot performance, cost, and reliability of Azure solutions
Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural governance to development teams
Stay current with Azure services, cloud trends, and best practices to drive continuous improvement
Azure services (App Services, Functions, Service Bus, SQL, Storage)
Cloud architecture patterns (microservices, event-driven, serverless)
Security & identity (Entra ID / RBAC / Zero Trust)
DevOps & automation (Azure DevOps, Terraform, ARM/Bicep)
Integration (APIs, messaging, hybrid connectivity)

Mandatory

University Degree related to programming, computer science and/or database development/administration
6+ years’ equivalent work experience
Microsoft Certified Professional certifications
Ability to develop, maintain and deliver solutions for automating tasks to simplify day-to-day operations
Ability to process computer data and interpret the results to ensure data accuracy

Preferred

Azure Solution Architect Certification
Azure Microsoft Design Prerequisites

Travel

Ability to travel to Mohawk Medbuy offices if required.

As a condition of employment, you are required to submit proof of full COVID-19 vaccination to Human Resources.

MMC is a Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) employer offering a comprehensive benefits package and flexible remote work options. The targeted hiring range of this role is $110,729 - $140,497 dependent on experience. This job posting is for a new vacancy.

Qualified candidates with a desire to join our innovative team are invited to submit their application in Dayforce. Mohawk Medbuy does not use artificial intelligence to screen, assess or select applicants.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. If contacted for an interview, please inform us should any accommodation be required. Mohawk Medbuy is committed to providing accessible employment practices that comply with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).