.NetAzure cloud architect

Saint Paul, MN - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Client: State of MN

Event Title: Met Council Cubic Developer 25P338

Event Number: MNSITE-3650

Anticipated Project Start Date: March 2 2026

Anticipated End Date: September 1 2026

The Met Council retains the option to extend the work order in increments determined by the Met Council.

Mode of Interview

The Met Council will conduct interviews. The Met Council reserves the right to remove a resource from consideration if the resource is unavailable for interview as requested by the Met Council. Interviews will be conducted in-person at Metroplolitan Council Offices located at 390 Robert Street North St. Paul MN 55101.
Hybrid: The work is expected to be done with a hybrid of on-site and remote work. Resource will be required to work at a Met Council office at least two days per week. Council offices are located at 390 Robert Stree North Saint Paul MN

Description of Project

The Metropolitan Council (Met Council) is seeking one full-time Developer resource to work on applications and services. The Developer will be responsible for architecting designing and delivering enterprise-grade applications using the framework and Azure services. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with architectural decision-making to ensure scalable secure and high-performance solutions.
At a high level the resource will design develop and deploy applications and services. For additional details on the request such as qualifications tasks and evaluation criteria see the attachments found in the Buyer Attachment section of the Event.

Tasks

Lead architect prototype design develop and deploy and cloud-based applications
Provide strong technical leadership and mentorship to development teams ensuring adherence to best practices and coding standards
Collaborate closely with solution architects product owners business analysts and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
Implement applications leveraging Clean Architecture and Domain-Driven Design principles
applications with third-party APIs databases and Azure cloud services
Optimize application performance scalability and maintainability across multiple environments
Lead code reviews enforce development standards and drive continuous quality improvements
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for efficient deployment and release management
Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in production and development environments
Ensure compliance with security data privacy and accessibility standards
Contribute to long-term technical planning architecture decisions and technology selection
Prepare technical documentation and lead knowledge transfer sessions

Minimum Qualifications

Fifteen (15) years of total software development experience
Five (5) years experience in application development framework and Microsoft technologies
Combined 5 years of experience in a Technical Team Engineer role designing and developing using Microsoft technologies and mentoring junior developers
Combined Seven (7) years experience with one or more of the following frameworks: Angular React or Blazor
Combined Five (5) years experience writing applications in Azure cloud and deploying code using CI/CD pipelines

Desired Skills

B.S. B.A. or an Associate Degree in Information Technology or related field
5 years experience leading collaborative exercises with business and technical stakeholders to translate functional requirements into technical designs
8 years of experience with the following front-end technologies HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript
3 years of experience in Azure services such as Azure Functions App Services Event Bus Event Grid Logic Apps and Azure infrastructure and identify Service including Azure (CIAM) cloud-based identity service
Five (5) years of experience with hands-on work in API design microservices architecture distributed systems and Azure Application Performance Monitoring
Ten (10) years of experience writing automated unit tests
Five (5) years of experience with database design and development using SQL Server or Azure SQL
Experience working on a mixed business and technical team in a hybrid telework/office setting work environment
Strong knowledge of SQL Server Entity Framework and performance analysis tools
Excellent leadership communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Proven ability to lead and manage multiple workstreams in large-scale enterprise projects

Pass/Fail Matrix

Resource Name:

Minimum Qualification	Provide Dates (MM/YYYY) and Company Name where the resource has demonstrated the qualification. Yes/no is not sufficient. Resource submissions that do not clearly demonstrate that these minimum qualifications are met will not be considered under this event.
Fifteen (15) years of total software development experience
Five (5) years experience in application development framework and Microsoft technologies
Combined 5 years of experience in a Technical Team Engineer role designing and developing using Microsoft technologies and mentoring junior developers
Combined Seven (7) years experience with one or more of the following frameworks: Angular React or Blazor
Combined Five (5) years experience writing applications in Azure cloud and deploying code using CI/CD pipelines

Client: State of MN Event Title: Met Council Cubic Developer 25P338 Event Number: MNSITE-3650 Anticipated Project Start Date: March 2 2026 Anticipated End Date: September 1 2026 The Met Council retains the option to extend the work order in increments determined by the Met Council. Mode of Intervie...