Platform Cloud Architect

Fractal is a strategic AI partner to Fortune 500 companies with a vision to power every human decision in the enterprise. Fractal is building a world where individual choices, freedom, and diversity are the greatest assets; We believe that a true Fractalite is the one who empowers imagination with intelligence. Fractal has been featured as a Great Place to Work by The Economic Times in partnership with the Great Place to Work® Institute and recognized as a ‘Cool Vendor’ and a ‘Vendor to Watch’ by Gartner.
Please visit Fractal | Intelligence for Imagination for more information about Fractal.

Job Posting Title: Platform Cloud Architect – Azure

Salary - $135,000 - $165000 + Bonus + Benefits

Design, implement, and manage Azure infrastructure components including Virtual Machines, Blob Storage, Azure Active Directory, Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups, and networking configurations.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI/CD.
Apply DevSecOps principles to enforce security best practices across cloud environments.
Support incident response and troubleshoot infrastructure and networking issues across distributed systems.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and maintain scalable, resilient platforms.
Define and implement SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets to measure and improve platform reliability.
Support the development of dashboards and alerting frameworks using tools like Grafana, Datadog, or Prometheus to improve platform visibility and reliability.
Integrate observability with incident management tools such as ServiceNow, MS Teams, or Slack.
Participate in blameless postmortems and incident trend analysis to reduce operational toil.
Maintain documentation, architectural diagrams, and operational playbooks for platform components.
Define architecture vision of a data platform and roadmap leveraging Azure and Databricks tech stack.
Enable architecture reviews and technical design sessions for client projects.
Cloud Platform & Data Architecture
Design and optimize Azure Databricks environments for data engineering, machine learning, and analytics workloads.
DevOps & Automation Leadership
Oversee CI/CD strategy and tooling across Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab.
Champion DevSecOps principles and platform security best practices.
Integrate observability with incident management tools like ServiceNow, MS Teams, or Slack.
Partner with data engineering, analytics, and product teams to align platform capabilities with business needs.
Provide architectural guidance on Databricks workloads, including Delta Lake, MLflow, and Unity Catalog.
Enable documentation on architectural diagrams, platform playbooks, and knowledge repositories.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft Certified: Pay: The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus for the current performance period.

Benefits: As a full-time employee of the company or as an hourly employee working more than 30 hours per week, you will be eligible to participate in the health, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability plans in accordance with the plan documents, which may be amended from time to time. The Company provides for 11 paid holidays and 12 weeks of Parental Leave. We also follow a “free time” PTO policy, allowing you the flexibility to take time needed for either sick time or vacation.

Fractal provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.