Senior Azure Cloud Architect

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential AI technology firm serving enterprise clients in regulated industries. Our talent team is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Architect to join their growing technical organization based in Italy.

This is an individual contributor role with direct client exposure. You will own cloud infrastructure design and delivery for financial services engagements, working closely with machine learning engineers and backend developers to ensure AI-driven platforms are backed by secure, scalable infrastructure that meets regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design and document end-to-end cloud architectures on Azure for financial services clients, taking ownership of service selection, cost optimization, and compliance considerations
• Act as the primary technical point of contact with client engineering and infrastructure teams, leading architecture discussions and translating business requirements into concrete technical plans
• Collaborate with ML engineers and backend developers to ensure AI workloads, data pipelines, and APIs are deployed on infrastructure that meets enterprise and regulatory requirements
• Contribute to technical proposals and scoping documents for new client engagements, providing credible architectural estimates and risk assessments
• Identify and resolve infrastructure risks across active projects, particularly where data governance, latency, or compliance constraints are involved

What We're Looking For

Required:

• 5+ years of hands-on cloud architecture experience, with Azure as the primary platform
• Familiarity with Snowflake
• Proven delivery of production-grade Azure infrastructure for enterprise clients
• Direct experience working with client technical stakeholders: architecture reviews, requirement translation, and written design documentation
• Strong grasp of security, compliance, and data governance requirements in regulated cloud environments
• Comfortable reasoning about trade-offs across cost, scalability, latency, and compliance, and communicating those trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Fluent in infrastructure as code and modern engineering practices: CI/CD, Git workflows, automated testing
• Professional English required; Italian is a strong plus

Nice to Have:

• Experience in financial services or other regulated industries (capital markets, insurance, banking)
• Exposure to AI or ML workloads in production
• Background in consulting or professional services, where you have owned client relationships alongside technical delivery

Technical Environment: Azure, Python, TypeScript, SQL, Snowflake, Postgres, Git workflows, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code

How We Work With You

Candidates apply directly through Get A Job.ai. Our recruiting team will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and confirm alignment with the role requirements. Qualified candidates will be submitted to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication and coordination will be managed through Get A Job.ai to ensure a professional and confidential process.

The client's selection process includes: an initial interview with their CTO or Senior Engineer (15 minutes), a technical interview focusing on architecture discussion and Azure design scenarios (60 minutes), and a final interview with their CEO (30 minutes). The total timeline is typically three to four weeks.

Working Arrangements: This role is fully remote from anywhere in Italy. Occasional travel to client sites or the Milan office should be expected. Working hours are Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 17:30 CET.

Compensation

The client offers a base salary of €50,000 to €60,000, project bonuses awarded on delivery and client impact (minimum 4 projects per year), year-end bonuses for team performance, annual salary reviews, and 10% salary progression at each career level. Benefits include a new MacBook Pro, an annual 3-day team offsite, 20 days of paid holiday per year, 8 public holidays, and 104 hours of additional permitted leave per year.

Get A Job.ai is an equal opportunity recruiter. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and work to ensure fair and transparent hiring processes for the organizations we represent.