Architect Infra & AI

Job description:

The focus of the Domain Solution Architect role is to make the market and drive digital transformation and modernization solutions with deeper focus on the technology and service offerings that are specific to each of the Microsoft Consulting Services domains. The Architect also plays a key role in driving the entire lifecycle of large and complex projects, early pre-sales, delivery oversight, and is also responsible for architectural and technical success for customers. They will lead in identifying and creatively solving complex customer problems, envisioning and enabling critical processes, and fundamentally helping the customer to achieve their objectives.

The Architect must be effective in fostering senior-level relationships. They also play a key role in employing and leveraging partners as part of the overall Microsoft services delivery model.

Responsibilities:

• Drive and accelerate production-level cloud solutions in line with customer and Microsoft strategy.
• Make the market with innovative digital transformation and modernization projects.
• Provide customer guidance during envisioning solution benefits, defining workloads and methodology, project scope, and sizing.
• Drive a positive customer experience by providing high-quality delivery on strategic, complex deals, and demonstrate technical leadership: create clarity, generate energy, and deliver success.
• Play a vital part in business strategy by providing risk assessment, reviewing proposals, identifying new services development areas based on market trends and customer expectations.
• Drive successful solution deployments by ensuring proper business value and customer/partner satisfaction.
• Technically drive Microsoft and partner teams to secure delivery of the solution in the defined scope of work.
• Grow the business through mentoring, talent pipeline development, and community evangelism, and share experiences to develop assets within the Azure community.
• Grow the business by transforming services opportunities to projects with intentional selling of applicable packaged Microsoft services offerings.
• Provide guidance and support around scope definition and solution architecture during the services sales cycle and make it a winning proposal.
• Drive operational excellence and innovation, leveraging new ideas contributing to increased Microsoft value to customers.

Experience required for this role includes:

• Engagement and stakeholder management.
• Successfully demonstrated leadership in 5+ years of solution architecture for enterprise-class customers.
• Excellent communication with leadership, peers, and teams.
• Proven track record in business domain and technical conversations.
• Holistic infrastructure solution design and architecture.
• Proven experience in pre-sales and closing.
• Previous track record delivering the full project life cycle.

A strong focus on below technologies is required:

• Deep domain expertise of cloud infrastructure solutions including subscription design, identity and access management, network topology and connectivity, storage, monitoring, and compute.
• Knowledge of Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), Well-Architected Framework (WAF), and Zero Trust Security Framework.
• Knowledge of application architecture, migration of infrastructure services to Azure IaaS/PaaS, greenfield deployment, optimization of applications, and automation using Infrastructure as Code.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals including VNet, ExpressRoute, vWAN, ingress/egress patterns, and services.
• Knowledge about OSS, Docker containers, Kubernetes, and related architectures.
• Knowledge of various DevOps tools and technologies including Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and GitHub.
• Knowledge of using integrated development environments including Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent work experience) relevant to Information Technology or Computer Science/Engineering.
• At least 12+ years of related IT experience with solution architecture, including enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, database migrations, and technology management.
• Work experience should involve pre-sales support on large deals in technical consulting, solution design of complex solutions, project envisioning, planning, development, deployment, and team management.
• Must have a proven record of delivering business value and proven trust relationships with CxO, ITDM, and BDM.
• The job may require travel.
• Fluent English verbal and written communication skills are required.

Other: Embody our culture and values.