Azure Solution Architect
Create, articulate, and position an innovative and compelling value proposition so that customer executives clearly understand the benefits and transformation value of Microsoft Azure
- Conduct cloud migration assessments, defining strategies that align to customer objectives, working with highly technical teams (Solutions Architects, Managed Services Architects, and Consulting Services Architects/Consultants)
- Lead project teams of Azure Cloud Engineers to complete large scale migrations to Microsoft Azure
- Design and build modern, well architected, secure, and cost optimized cloud solutions for customers’ most critical systems
- Create efficiencies through application modernization and IT process automation
- Educate and guide customers on the benefits and capabilities of cloud services
- Engage with internal and customer development, infrastructure, security, and IT operations teams to define repeatable patterns and architectures for cloud solutions running on Microsoft Azure
- Collaborate with Consulting and Managed Services Architects to drive the development of new go-to-market approaches and opportunities for internal and external clients
- Collaborate with Microsoft and other partners to create bleeding-edge cloud solutions
- Engage with C-level customer executives to inspire, define, and execute on Enterprise cloud transformation programs, demonstrating thought-leadership and a ‘can do’ approach to enterprise migrations, working to solve business challenges
Experience required:
- Experience in Azure Cloud Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Lead Architect role leading the discovery, design, and build of medium to large scale Enterprise Migration solutions
- Experience assessing, planning, and migrating workloads to Azure
- Experience architecting, building, and deploying applications to Azure
- Experience in project-based consulting related to application or system architecture
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation, CI/CD, and DevOps practices
- Familiarity with common Azure services such as Identity and Access Management, Directory Services, Virtual Desktops, Networking, Compute, Storage, etc.
- Knowledge of Azure Security services
- Knowledge of Azure administration, troubleshooting, and optimization activities
- Experience with Azure Policies, cloud governance, and native monitoring & alerting
- Knowledge of Azure Container Services
- Experience with Azure networking, connectivity to and within Azure, including VPN and ExpressRoute
- Familiarity with Microsoft workloads such as Windows Services, Windows Servers, Active Directory, etc.
- Presentation skills with a high level of comfort speaking with executives, IT leadership, and engineers
- Experience leveraging a variety of cloud assessment and migration tools
- Critical thinker with the ability to design and implement solutions that solve complex business challenges
- Ability to maintain ownership and independence in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
- Ability to maintain a high level of professionalism and sense of urgency in all stakeholder communications
- Comfortable mentoring and working with mid and associate level engineers to grow overall team and individual skillsets
