Sparkd - AI for Business Growth

Senior Azure Cloud Architect

Sparkd - AI for Business Growth

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Italy

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Salary

💰 €50,000 - €60,000 per year

Job Level

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About the role

  • Design and document end-to-end cloud architectures on Azure for financial services clients, taking ownership of service selection, cost optimisation, 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.
  • Work alongside ML engineers and backend developers to ensure that 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.

Requirements

  • 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.
Benefits
  • RAL : €50'000 to €60'000
  • Project bonuses: awarded on delivery and client impact (min 4 projects / year)
  • Year-end bonus: awarded for team performance
  • Annual salary review
  • +10% salary progression at each career level
  • A brand new MacBook Pro M5 14”
  • Once a year, the whole team flies to Dublin for a 3-day offsite at our HQ
  • 20 days of paid holiday per year, 8 public holidays, and 104 hours of additional permitted leave per year
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud architectureAzureSnowflakeinfrastructure as codeCI/CDGit workflowsautomated testingdata pipelinesAPIscost optimisation
Soft Skills
communicationleadershiprequirement translationrisk assessmentproblem-solvingstakeholder managementtrade-off reasoningtechnical documentationcollaborationadaptability