Azure Architect

Responsibilities

• Define the integration architecture — covering API contracts, data models, authentication patterns, and event flows — connecting Backstage to enterprise observability, ITSM, and monitoring platforms
• Deliver monitoring integration capabilities by embedding dashboards such as Grafana/LGTM into each catalog entity, addressing entity-to-dashboard mapping and authentication passthrough
• Design the ArgoCD integration, including plugin integration, API authentication, entity-annotation mapping, and RBAC projection, to provide deployment-status visibility inside the developer portal
• Handle the announcements and notifications integration, including configuring upstream plugins, setting up notification channels such as email and Teams webhooks, and managing publisher RBAC to enable platform-wide communication
• Configure databases visibility integration using read-only metadata collectors for Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Postgres, along with a search integration leveraging Elasticsearch/pgsearch backend and catalog/TechDocs indexers
• Develop the SDD document generation capability, defining how architecture documentation is produced from repository/catalog metadata and infrastructure-as-code module outputs, triggered via Backstage actions/templates
• Produce dashboards, reporting, and enterprise-integration views across Backstage, infrastructure, and integration workstreams to ensure consistent, permission-aware display of service health and dependency information
• Partner closely with the Backstage Architect to align plugins and data models, and coordinate with the Azure and VMware Architects to ensure infrastructure telemetry and metadata surface properly within the portal
• Drive integration-architecture governance throughout implementation, validate end-to-end service visibility, and support monitoring, reconciliation, and documentation-generation processes during rollout

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