Solution Architect, REMOTE

• 3–5+ years building backend systems with .NET (C#).
• Azure hands-on experience with core cloud concepts: networking, identity, compute, storage, messaging.
• REST API design strong understanding of integration patterns — sync/async, idempotency, contracts.
• MS SQL Server schema design, indexes, transactions, query tuning, migrations (EF Migrations / DbUp or equivalent).
• Security fundamentals: JWT, OAuth2/OIDC at integration and configuration level; secret management; least-privilege thinking.
• Application design patterns: familiarity with layered/clean architecture, Repository, CQRS basics — and the judgment to apply them with guidance.
• AI/LLM awareness: understands what RAG, embeddings, and prompt engineering are at a conceptual level; can ask the right questions when evaluating an AI integration proposal.
• Communication: ability to document decisions clearly and work with multiple teams.

Requirements — Nice to Have

These are areas we'll invest in together — not prerequisites.

• Event-driven architecture: Azure Service Bus / Event Grid, outbox pattern, consumer group design.
• Containers and orchestration: Docker, AKS / Kubernetes concepts, Helm basics.
• Observability: Application Insights, OpenTelemetry, structured logging, distributed tracing, alerting.
• Advanced design patterns: Domain-Driven Design (bounded contexts, aggregates, domain events); Event Sourcing; Saga / process manager; Modular Monolith as a stepping stone to services.
• Advanced AI/LLM experience: production RAG deployments (chunking, vector stores, re-ranking, evaluation); Azure OpenAI / Azure AI Search; agentic patterns (tool use, Semantic Kernel / LangChain); AI-specific NFRs — latency, rate limits, grounding, PII handling.
• API Management patterns: gateway policies, rate limiting, developer portal.