Lead DevOps Solution Architect

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the Migration Factory team, mentor engineers, prioritize the backlog and ensure secure, repeatable execution.
• Own scope, integrated plan, sprint/wave plan, milestones, capacity, dependencies, RAID, status reporting, decision gates and recovery actions.
• Act as the primary internal and customer-facing point of contact, coordinating application owners, platform/cloud/security teams, architects and leadership.
• Serve as the single escalation owner for both organizations and lead L1/L2 triage for automation, authentication/PAT, permissions, REST API, Git, extraction, reconciliation, packaging, handoff, pipeline rewiring and application stand-up issues.
• Define the architecture across Discover, Extract, Validate, Package, Reconcile, Transfer, Customer Rebuild/Rewire, Validate and Handover.
• Assess ADO projects across the SDLC and define the assets, history, relationships and non-secret dependencies required for customer rebuild and rewiring.
• Define migration archetypes, complexity scoring, entry/exit criteria, exception paths, delta strategy, release controls and acceptance criteria.
• Define least-privilege identity/PAT/API/Git access patterns and review automation for security, reliability, restartability, evidence and supportability.
• Lead pilots and approve scaling based on extraction completeness, reconciliation, customer acceptance, exception rates and target readiness.
• Manage timelines and forecasts, surface risks early and provide actionable recovery options to leadership.
• Convert recurring issues into reusable automation, runbooks, manifests, standards or governance improvements.
• Own closure including exception disposition, acceptance, evidence, lessons learned, temporary access removal, staging cleanup and handover.

Required Toolset Proficiency

• Azure DevOps: Organizations/Projects, Azure Repos/Git, Azure Boards, Test Plans, Wikis, YAML and classic pipelines, agent pools, environments, service connections, variable groups, permissions, inherited processes, Analytics/queries and REST APIs.
• Git/source control: branching, merging, tags, pull requests, history, clone/mirror/bundle concepts, repository security and troubleshooting.
• Automation: working proficiency in PowerShell and Python; ability to review API orchestration, JSON/CSV/Markdown processing, retries, logging, reconciliation and checksums.
• Azure/security: Microsoft Azure, Entra ID, service principals/managed identities, Key Vault, Azure Storage, RBAC, certificates, DNS/network references and least-privilege access.
• CI/CD/platform engineering: reusable YAML templates, artifacts, agents, environment configuration, approvals/checks and Terraform concepts.
• DevSecOps awareness: SonarQube, Checkmarx, Orca or comparable controls.
• Delivery/reporting: Azure Boards plus Teams, Excel, PowerPoint and Power BI.

Skills and Experience

• 8+ years of IT experience with leadership in DevOps, platform engineering, application delivery, cloud automation, architecture, enterprise migrations and project management.
• 5+ years of hands-on Azure DevOps experience and the ability to guide platform, CI/CD, API, access and troubleshooting decisions.
• Strong end-to-end SDLC knowledge across backlog/source control, build, test, artifacts, release/deployment, environments, approvals, observability, rollback and change controls.
• Demonstrated project/program management, Agile/Scrum, sprint/wave planning, resource planning, RAID management, customer/vendor coordination and executive reporting.
• Strong customer management, communication, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution and escalation ownership.
• Ability to determine what must be transferred versus recreated so the customer can build, deploy and operate the application.
• Enterprise separation, divestiture, merger, cross-tenant or Azure DevOps organization migration experience.
• PMP, SAFe/Scrum, Azure, Azure DevOps or architecture certifications.