HSO Ind | Azure Integration Lead / Architect

About the Role

We are seeking an Azure Integration Lead / Architect with 10–13 years of experience to own the design and delivery of enterprise integration architectures across the Microsoft ecosystem. The role connects business applications, analytics platforms, and intelligent services, sets integration standards for the team, and mentors senior engineers while remaining hands-on.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise integration architectures that connect business applications, analytics platforms, and intelligent services across the Microsoft ecosystem.

• Build scalable integrations using Azure Integration Services including Azure API Management (APIM), Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid, and Event Hubs.

• Develop API-based, event-driven, and message-based architectures connecting ERP, CRM, Dataverse, analytics platforms, and external enterprise systems.

• Must have .NET 10, Knowing principles, Test driven approach

• Enable AI workloads.

• Support integration patterns required for Copilot, Azure OpenAI, semantic search, and intelligent application scenarios.

• GitHub copilot, Dedicated AI stack: Foundry , Citadel Arch, AI governance

• Integrate Microsoft Business Applications including Dynamics 365 and Dataverse with Azure data platforms and enterprise systems.

• Develop secure APIs and integration workflows leveraging OAuth2, Managed Identities, and APIM policies.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Bicep (AVM) and YAML to support consistent and repeatable deployments.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to support automated delivery across development, test, and production environments.

• Design resilient integrations with monitoring, alerting, retry logic, and observability frameworks to ensure production reliability.

• Lead solution design reviews, define integration standards, API guidelines, and reusable templates, and mentor senior engineers.

• Work with clients and stakeholders to gather requirements, estimate effort, and own technical delivery.

Required Qualifications

Area

Requirement

Experience

10–13 years in integration, with 5+ years designing solutions on Azure Integration Services

Architecture

Proven experience with API-led, event-driven, and message-based patterns: pub/sub, claim-check, canonical models, saga, replay

Azure services

Deep hands-on knowledge of APIM, Logic Apps (Standard and Consumption), Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs

Microsoft Business Apps

Experience integrating Dynamics 365 and Dataverse with Azure data platforms and enterprise systems

AI integration

Integration patterns for Copilot, Azure OpenAI, and semantic search (for example, Azure OpenAI behind APIM, AI Search, MCP)

Security

OAuth2, Managed Identities, Key Vault, private networking, APIM policies

DevOps & IaC

Mandatory experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD (YAML pipelines) and Bicep, including Azure Verified Modules (AVM)

Reliability

Monitoring, alerting, retry and error handling, and observability using App Insights and Log Analytics

Leadership

Experience leading integration teams, running design reviews, mentoring, and engaging stakeholders

Certifications

AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect Expert) and AZ-400 (DevOps Engineer Expert) — mandatory

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• AZ-204 (Azure Developer Associate).

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric or Synapse Link for Dataverse.

• Experience with Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry agent integrations.

• Experience with B2B/EDI integrations (AS2, X12, EDIFACT).

• Knowledge of API-first design, OpenAPI specifications, and contract-first development.