Senior Azure Architect

📋 Job Overview

Seeking a career-defining opportunity where your leadership, strategic vision, and client expertise are recognized and rewarded? Kaufman Rossin might be just the place for you. As one of the top accounting firms in the country, our foundation is “people first.”

🏢 About Kaufman Rossin

Kaufman Rossin is a privately owned, independent public accounting firm, which means we are not beholden to outside investors or private equity influence. This independence allows us to prioritize long-term client relationships, maintain objectivity in our advisory approach, and make strategic decisions that benefit our people and clients. Celebrated as the Best Place to Work in South Florida over a dozen times, Kaufman Rossin has grown to over 700 employees, with offices spanning the tri-county area.

🎯 The Role

Kaufman Rossin is seeking a Senior Azure Architect to join our growing Information Technology team. In this hands-on role, you will lead KR’s cloud modernization strategy by evaluating our AWS and Azure environments, guiding the migration of workloads to Azure native solutions, establishing architecture standards, and advancing our data, analytics, AI, and virtual desktop capabilities. You will combine deep technical expertise with enterprise architecture principles to create secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Establish cloud architecture standards, guardrails, patterns, and decision frameworks for engineering teams
• Translate business objectives into long-term architecture blueprints using TOGAF or an equivalent framework
• Evaluate and document KR’s AWS workload landscape, including dependencies, risks, costs, and migration complexity
• Lead the architecture of KR’s Azure data platform using ADLS Gen2, Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Data bricks, and Microsoft Fabric
• Define the architecture for KR’s AI applications, including retrieval augmented generation pipelines, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks
• Architect the migration from Citrix to Azure Virtual Desktop

📌 Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on experience designing solutions across Azure and AWS
• Proven experience leading end-to-end cloud migrations using multiple migration approaches
• Deep expertise in Azure data platforms, including ADLS Gen2, Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric
• Experience designing AI solutions that incorporate retrieval augmented generation, large language model integration, model selection, and responsible AI governance
• Strong Azure Virtual Desktop architecture experience, including FSLogix and image management
• TOGAF certification or equivalent enterprise architecture credentials required

⭐ Desirable Experience

• AZ 305, DP 203, AZ 140, or AI 102 certification preferred

🎁 Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package reflecting our commitment to people-first values.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Kaufman Rossin is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a culture that reflects the diversity of our firm and clients.