Azure Solution Architect, Financial Advisory Business Technology

Lazard is one of the world’s leading financial advisory and asset management firms. Our people make the difference. With just over 3,000 employees, our tight-knit community allows for professionals eager to learn and willing to teach to connect and grow together. We believe that diversity, equity, inclusion, and allyship are not just business imperatives — they are central pillars of our employee experience. Our entrepreneurial culture and flat structure allow creative ideas and original concepts to drive our business forward — and for careers to take flight.

Lazard's Corporate functions empower strategic decision-making and ensure continued success of our firm. From Finance & Tax to Information Technology and Human Resources, our colleagues around the globe support our financial advisory and asset management business lines in many ways. By utilizing the latest technology, these integral groups make sure our businesses are compliant, operationally efficient, and profitable. 

The Application Architect provides leadership and facilitation for project or program solution design. The Application Architect guides projects on their overall high-level solution approach, engagement with the broader project/development team, and represents the solution design at the formal architecture review board meeting. The Application Architect is the owner of the project solution architecture process and solution architecture artifacts.

We’ll trust you to:

• Be responsible for understanding and enforcing enterprise architectural principals, standards & patterns at the project level
• Act with oversight from Head of Solution Architecture and consults/enlists other architecture team members (EA, DA, IA) as required
• Work in close partnership with business community, business analysts, developers and data architects to design and deliver impactful business software solutions
• Be responsible for technical approach, high level and detailed design of the project in accordance with architectural standards
• Be responsible for enforcing the use of standard tools and products across projects within the FABT organization
• Champion and conform applications to accepted Development Operations (DevOps) practices
• Identify and document the standard designs, reference architectures and playbooks
• Work in close collaboration with project manager for project status and estimation of resource needs
• Assist the project team in recognizing and mitigating any risks to the solution's overall success or to existing systems and business processes
• Understands and mitigate the technical design on security, performance, and data privacy through review of proposed configurations and system implementations
• Explain existing system capabilities to key business users as well as any modifications in support of business processes.
• Keep abreast and leverages existing shared capabilities, products and software in proposed solutions
• Review any documentation provided by vendors and internal technical analysis teams for technical accuracy in meeting the business needs
• Review and approve technical specifications; supports subsequent delivery processes to ensure solution meets business and architectural objectives as envisioned
• Mentor technical leads and developers in answering questions regarding the architecture and design of our systems
• Ensure project compliance to approved software development methodologies
• Work comfortably in SDLC selected by project (waterfall, agile or combination of both)
• Communicate both technically and conceptually to provide architecture leadership and guidance to business and technical team members throughout the course of the project

You’ll need to have:

• 5+ years’ experience architecting/engineering/developing web-enabled applications
• Experience/frontend architecture frameworks such as:(Angular - Preferred, React, Vue)
• Mobile architecture design concepts: 3 Tier Architecture MVC, Clean architecture, SOLID principles, etc.
• REST-based Microservices/Middleware, Service Oriented Architecture, OpenAPI
• Data Backend - Microsoft SQL, Oracle PL/SQL
• Experience with Cloud-based Architecture (Azure - Preferred, AWS, GCP)
• Cloud computing (infrastructure, storage, platforms, containers, serverless and data)
• Architectural techniques, e.g.: Sequence Diagrams, C4 Diagrams, Data Flow Diagram, Logical Diagrams, etc
• Building highly scaled and robust enterprise-class applications
• Software Engineering principles
• Event Driven Architecture and Event patterns
• DevOps, Continuous integration/deployment and container-based architecture
• Infrastructure and Information Security understanding
• Understands how changes/updates effect not only the specific domain but also other systems in assigned business unit

What we offer

We strive to enhance the total health and well-being of our employees through comprehensive, competitive benefits. Our goal is to offer a highly individualized employee experience that enables you to balance your commitments to career, family, and community. When you work for Lazard, you are working for an organization that cares about your unique talents and passions and will continue to invest in the development of your career.

We expect the base salary range for this role to be approximately $180,000 - $200,000. Various factors contribute to determining the actual base compensation offered, including but not limited to the applicant’s years of relevant experience, career tenure, qualifications, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, relevant skills for the role, and if applicable, the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. Base salary is one component of Lazard Corporate’s compensation package, which also includes comprehensive benefits and may include incentive compensation.

Does this sound like you?

Apply! We’ll get in touch on the next steps.

Diversity and Inclusion at Lazard

Lazard is an intellectual capital business focused on delivering the best advice and solutions to clients. Achieving these objectives requires us to identify, develop and retain the best talent. A workforce comprised of people with varied backgrounds and experiences creates a rich diversity of thought that empowers us to challenge conventional wisdom, as diverse perspectives lead to better decisions.

Our appreciation of diversity’s strength is ingrained in our multi-cultural heritage. As a global firm that has grown organically from local roots in different countries, we have a deep tradition of respect for individual differences, which has been core to our success for several decades.

The ongoing cultivation of diversity and an inclusive, equitable culture are essential to our continued growth. We are committed to sustaining an environment in which all employees – regardless of socioeconomic status, race, color, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, physical abilities, veteran or military status – can bring their whole selves to work to maximize their individual potential and our collective success.

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