Senior Cloud Architect / Tech Lead
About this role
Currently, we are looking for a Senior Cloud Architect / Tech Lead (Azure Virtual Desktop) to join our team in Finland.
As a Senior Cloud Architect / Tech Lead, you play a key role in delivering cloud-native solutions for our customers while driving technical excellence across Nordcloud engagements. This role belongs to the Tech Lead Track, combining hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, customer advisory, and team enablement. You will lead the design and implementation of Azure-based platforms with deep specialization in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), while contributing to Nordcloud's technical community and helping customers advance their cloud maturity.
Your daily responsibilities:
Lead end to end Azure and AVD solution architecture across identity, networking, governance, security, cost, and operational models.
Ensure architectures meet business and non functional requirements (scalability, resilience, performance, security).
Produce architecture artefacts aligned with Nordcloud's standards and landing zone patterns.
Provide technical direction across multi disciplinary delivery teams, ensuring quality and consistency.
Guide implementation of AVD host pools, image pipelines, FSLogix strategy, scaling logic, networking, monitoring, and landing zone integrations.
Support pre sales activities with Solution Architects, including scoping, estimations, and high level solution design.
Contribute directly to implementation through IaC (Terraform/Bicep), automation, DevOps pipelines, and platform engineering.
Troubleshoot complex architecture and platform issues and drive root cause understanding.
Customer Advisory & Collaboration
Community, Mentoring & Knowledge Sharing
Your key skills:
5+ years hands on experience designing Azure architectures for enterprise environments.
Deep expertise in Azure Virtual Desktop (workspace design, host pools, FSLogix, image lifecycle, networking, scaling, monitoring).
Strong Azure skills across identity (Entra ID), governa