Azure Architect
HiQ is looking for an Azure Architect with extensive data migration experience for a finance sector client project.
Role:
The Azure Architect will be responsible of designing and implementing a centralized Azure-based contact archiving solution and executing the migration of contact archiving data from multiple AWS accounts, Genesys Cloud, and legacy on-premises storage to Azure. This role is critical in our clients journey toward Azure, as AWS-based solutions and integrations will be migrated in the coming years.
Key responsibilities:
- Design and implement an Azure-based centralized archiving solution.
- Design & Implement a POC for large-scale migration of contact-related data from AWS, Genesys Cloud, and on-premises systems to Azure.
- Document every step, challenges, and solutions after the POC to ensure a smooth handover to the application team in the future.
- Collaborate closely with the Azure Platform Team and other technical teams.
- Ensure security and compliance with all design and implementation decisions.
- Work within a technical development team, coordinating with onsite and offshore team members.
- Contribute to clients cloud transformation strategy and architecture roadmap
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience in designing and implementing Azure based solutions and migrations
- Strong experience in Azure cloud architecture:
- Ability to design secure, scalable Azure archiving solutions for large volumes of unstructured and semi structured data (voice, chat, secure message, recordings, metadata etc.)
- Strong understanding of Azure storage, networking, encryption, IAM, governance and compliance frameworks (GDPR, banking regulations)
- Large-scale data migration experience:
- Proven experience in migrating multi-terabyte datasets from on-prem legacy systems, AWS S3 buckets
- Hands-on skills with Azure Data Factory and automated data ingestion pipelines
- Strong understanding of performance tuning, parallelism, metadata mapping and integrity verification
- Strong Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) skills
- Experience in designing and deploying Azure infrastructure using Terraform or Bicep
- Ability to create repeatable, version-controlled environments
- Ability to product architecture blueprints, migration runbooks, IaC repository documentation
- Ability to produce operational guides for pipelines and environments
- Ability to provide clear handover to application team
- Excellent communication skills in English and Finnish
Beneficial:
- Familiarity with Genesys Cloud and understanding of contact center / contact management concepts
Assignment information:
- Start: asap
- Duration: until 30.06.2026
- Allocation: 100 %
- Location: Helsinki, hybrid (onsite work 1-2 days/week)
Please note that the assignment requires a completed security clearance.
Interested?
Send your CV and hourly rate expectation to alihankinta@hiq.fi latest by Wednesday 17.12.