Managing Delivery Architect - Microsoft Azure Cloud Pre-Sales Architect

Job Description - Managing Delivery Architect - Microsoft Azure Cloud Pre-Sales Architect (051735)

Managing Delivery Architect - Microsoft Azure Cloud Pre-Sales Architect

Consult with Capgemini clients to understand their needs and pain points, and accordingly scope and design Azure solutions, data center migrations, identify reuse and re-platforming opportunities as well as refactoring opportunities to scale their adoption of Microsoft Azure and digital transformation.

Own the Azure technical customer engagement including architectural design, proof of concepts, demos, pilots, customer facing contract bid responses.

Participate in the solution selling lifecycle working closely with the account teams and extended cross‑functional teams to mobilize the sold solution and set it up for successful delivery.

Mentor and coach the delivery teams, architects, and developers to ensure that architecture and requirements best practices are followed.

Establish and enforce quality standards for cloud solution architectures.

Drive high priority customer initiatives on Azure in collaboration with customers and Capgemini sales teams.

The role is a technical, customer facing pre‑sales role that is accountable for selling and evangelizing Azure based solutions and Capgemini capabilities to the clients.

Deep understanding of Azure, Apps, Infra and Dev Ops space and cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends.

Deep technical experience in application design and development including app migrations to Azure, app refactoring, designing and building apps using Azure native technologies, app integrations etc.

Experience and familiarity with Azure app related services - App Services, ASP.NET, MVC, .NET Core, Web APIs, Webjobs, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, Azure Kubernetes Service, SQL Server, Azure SQL Database etc.

Hands‑on with tools & methods in capability, business transformation delivery, sizing & estimations.

Experience with configuration management and automation technologies such as Power Shell DSC, Chef, ARM Templates, and Puppet is preferred.

Working knowledge with AGILE development, SCRUM and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with one or more of the following programming languages preferred:
Power Shell, Bash, .Net, .Net Core, Java, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails is preferred.

Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior executives and growing cloud consumption share in large or highly strategic accounts.

Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through.

Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences.

Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or services company.

Problem‑solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources.

Exceptional verbal and written communication Certifications.

Experience as a team lead in consultative role on customer engagements involving software application projects.

Ability to be hands‑on in leadership roles as well as manage others to execute and deliver project deliverables.

3+ years senior level support with cloud infrastructure as part of responsibilities.

5+ years of architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications (i.e. having an architectural sense for ensuring availability, reliability, etc.).

2+ years of experience in migrating on premise workloads to the cloud.

5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects (where necessary, managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects).

Oversight experience on major transformation projects and successful transitions to implementation support team.

Candidates should be flexible / willing to work across this delivery landscape which includes and not limited to Agile Applications Development, Support and Deployment.

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