Azure Solution Architect

About ELITS

ELITS Canada Inc. is part of Accelerate, within the IVER Group in Sweden. IVER Group has approximately 1,300 employees and continues to grow. Through Accelerate, we work at the frontier of technology on digitization and transformation projects for market leading customers. We help customers turn digital ambition into successful implementation through close collaboration, humility, and pride in what we deliver.

About the Role

ELITS Canada is looking for an experienced Azure Solution Architect for a remote consulting assignment based in Canada . Candidates must be authorized to work in Canada and able to perform the role remotely from within Canada.

In this role, you will support the evaluation, architecture, and planning of secure and scalable corporate applications built on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric . You will work closely with customer stakeholders to provide recommendations on infrastructure, security, architecture, governance, and cost, with a focus on practical delivery options for internal platforms that may later evolve into external customer facing services.

Responsibilities

• Assess business and technical requirements for new corporate applications within Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric .
• Provide architecture recommendations for secure, scalable, and reliable deployment of internal business platforms and artificial intelligence enabled solutions.
• Evaluate and refine proposed production architectures involving PostgreSQL 16 , pgvector , Neo4j , and Docker based deployment models.
• Advise on suitable infrastructure, security, governance, and cost optimization approaches within the customer’s Microsoft cloud environment.
• Support the design of a secure research and development , ( R&D ), artificial intelligence assistant that combines internal knowledge, quality documentation, SharePoint content, and approved external publications.
• Help define solution patterns that protect confidential know how and intellectual property while enabling accurate and reliable access to technical information.
• Collaborate with customer stakeholders and technical specialists to shape implementation plans, platform recommendations, and future roadmap decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or a related field, with at least five years of relevant professional experience .
• Senior level experience in Microsoft Azure architecture, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise solution design.
• Strong knowledge of application architecture, cloud security, governance, and cost management in Microsoft cloud environments.
• Experience designing solutions involving PostgreSQL , containerized deployments, and modern platform architecture patterns.
• Understanding of Microsoft Fabric , data platforms, and architectures that support analytics, knowledge retrieval, or artificial intelligence driven applications.
• Experience with identity and access management, information security, and protection of sensitive data and intellectual property.
• Strong consulting, stakeholder communication, and analytical skills, with the ability to translate business needs into practical technical recommendations.

Qualities

• Communicative, positive, and customer oriented.
• Strong analytical skills, logical reasoning, and problem solving abilities.
• Responsible, autonomous, and resourceful.
• Team oriented, organized, and committed to quality results.
• Creative and proactive, with ideas to improve products and processes.
• Able to coordinate and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

This position is open to Canadian residents, including persons with a valid work permit in Canada.

ELITS, Part of Accelerate @ IVER Group