Azure Cloud Architect

ICF seeks an experienced Azure Cloud Architect to lead the design and governance of secure scalable cloud-native solutions in complex regulated enterprise environments. This position plays a key role in modernization initiatives requiring strong architectural leadership security alignment and DevSecOps integration.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in Microsoft Azure enterprise cloud governance and secure platform architecture. This role provides strategic oversight guidance and technical credibility across infrastructure application and data domains.

Job Location:This position is remote within the United States.

Please note that ICF monitors employee work locations restricts access from foreign locations and IP addresses and prohibits the use of personal VPN connections.

What Youll Be Doing

• Architect and govern secure Azure cloud environments including enterprise landing zones identity integration hybrid connectivity and high-availability design.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures technical standards and governance controls to ensure consistent and compliant cloud implementations across multiple modernization efforts.
• Lead architectural design reviews and approve solution designs to maintain alignment with enterprise security compliance and modernization strategies.
• Integrate infrastructure-as-code policy enforcement and automated security controls into DevSecOps pipelines using modern CI/CD and automation practices.
• Maintain alignment with established security frameworks including role-based zero trust role-based access controls and continuous monitoring.
• FinOps scalability planning performance optimization availability and disaster recovery strategies across Azure environments.
• Provide architectural guidance for cloud-native containerized and data-driven workloads that support enterprise modernization.
• Collaborate with engineering security and operations teams to ensure solutions are supportable maintainable and consistent with enterprise standards.

What You Must Have

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or a related technical field.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (required).
• 10 years of experience architecting and leading enterprise cloud solutions across complex multi-team environments.
• 8 years of experience across multiple technical domains including: infrastructure application development data platforms or low-code/no-code technologies.
• 5 years demonstrated experience designing secure Azure environments within regulated enterprise settings that require formal security authorization and ongoing compliance.
• 5 years of experience implementing infrastructure-as-code and integrating automated security validation into CI/CD pipelines.
• 5 years of experience supporting cloud governance compliance alignment and continuous monitoring frameworks.
• 3 years of experience operating within hybrid and multi-cloud enterprise environments.
• 5 years of experience modernizing large application portfolios and establishing architectural standards across multiple concurrent initiatives.

Working at ICF

Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position including but not limited to relevant work experience skills certifications and competencies that align to the specified role geographic location education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is: