Technical Architect Visa Sponsorship Jobs in Washington

LOCATION: Seattle, WA, United States (On-site)

JOB TYPE: Contract (5 months 15 days)

INTRODUCTION

The Lead Solution Architect will own the end-to-end architecture, design, and governance of the Virtual Lab platform hosted on Microsoft Azure. This role is responsible for defining scalable, secure, supportable, and automated cloud solutions that enable rapid provisioning of isolated lab environments while aligning with enterprise architecture, security, and operational standards. The architect will work closely with engineering, DevOps, cloud operations, testing, security, networking, and application teams to establish a robust platform capable of supporting multiple store topologies, environments, and business use cases.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture and ensure the Virtual Lab solution is scalable, secure, supportable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Define the end-to-end Virtual Lab solution architecture across Azure infrastructure, networking, compute, storage, security, deployment automation, testing, and observability.
• Design the target Azure environment, including subscriptions, resource groups, virtual networks, subnets, network security groups, private endpoints, Bastion, Key Vault, monitoring, and outbound connectivity.
• Define Infrastructure-as-Code standards using Terraform and/or Bicep, including reusable modules, naming standards, tagging, and configuration patterns.
• Establish architecture principles for reusable store recipes, environment isolation, versioned bundles, repeatable deployment, and automated teardown.
• Define integration patterns for source repositories, artifact stores, CI/CD pipelines, test frameworks, store configurations, and peripheral emulators.
• Ensure security, access control, data isolation, auditability, cost controls, and environment-retention requirements are incorporated into the design.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical decision-making, risk identification, and resolution of cross-platform dependencies.
• Provide technical guidance to engineering, DevOps, cloud automation, testing, and application-development teams.
• Maintain solution architecture, deployment-design documents, integration specifications, and architecture decision records.
• Support MVP validation and provide recommendations for scaling the solution to additional store topologies, markets, and use cases.

MANDATORY SKILLS:

• Azure Cloud Architecture
• Terraform/Bicep (Infrastructure as Code)
• Azure Networking & Security
• Azure DevOps / CI-CD Automation
• Enterprise Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership

PREFERENCE SKILLS:

• Kubernetes (AKS), Docker, Helm
• SRE, Monitoring & Observability
• Cloud Cost Optimization (FinOps)
• Microservices & API Architecture
• Retail/POS/Virtual Lab Domain Experience

COMPENSATION

• The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $39.30/hour - $61.40/hour.

Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.