Senior MS Security Architect

What You’ll Do Technical Leadership & Expertise

• Serve as a subject matter expert in Microsoft Security platform, including Purview, Entra, Sentinel, Defender and with a point of view around AI Security.
• Stay ahead of emerging trends, ensuring the practice adopts and evangelizes the latest Microsoft innovations.
• Lead the integration of security capabilities into solution delivery models, transforming customer workflows and outcomes.
• Support Microsoft Security solution architecture for complex strategic opportunities.
• Conduct discovery, solution shaping and architecture reviews.
• Provide technical escalation support for presales.
• Maintain and enhance expertise on Microsoft Security services and best practices.

• Lead and develop a team of Architects, setting technical direction, role clarity, and delivery standards across engagements.
• Coach, mentor, and enable architects through regular 1:1s, technical reviews, and skills development plans aligned to practice priorities.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management for the architecture team, ensuring consistent quality and growth.
• Provide architectural governance across the team (patterns, reference architectures, quality gates), and act as an escalation point for complex technical decisions.

• Coordinate the development, documentation, and continuous improvement of methodologies and best practices for Microsoft Security solutions.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, and product managers to ensure consistency and quality across all engagements.
• Train sales teams on solution value.
• Champion internal enablement, fostering a culture of learning and innovation.

• Support the creation and evolution of Microsoft Security offerings, working closely with product management and delivery teams.
• Design reusable offers, blueprints, IaC patterns and accelerators.
• Contribute to practice strategy and capability roadmaps.
• Build playbooks, reference architectures, prescriptive best practices, demos/solutions experiences and case studies.
• Act as “Customer Zero” for new technologies, piloting and refining offerings before broad rollout.
• Provide presales support, solution architecture, and technical leadership for strategic opportunities.

• Engage directly with key customers as a trusted advisor, guiding their Microsoft transformation journeys.
• Lead solution workshops, architecture reviews, and executive briefings for high-impact engagements.
• Ensure customer satisfaction and measurable business impact through delivery excellence.

• Partner with Microsoft and other strategic partners to co-create solutions and drive joint success.
• Represent Softchoice/WWT at industry events, sharing thought leadership and promoting best practices.
• Advocate for continuous improvement and early adoption of emerging technologies.

• Deep expertise in Microsoft Security solutions.
• Proven experience leading, mentoring, and developing a team of architects in a consulting or delivery organization.
• Proven experience architecting and delivering complex Microsoft solutions for enterprise customers.
• Strong track record in methodology development, technical leadership, and innovation.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working with Microsoft and global partners.
• Commitment to continuous learning and professional growth.
• This role requires at least 8 years experience in a technical field (ideally with Microsoft technologies).
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field is preferred.

• There is an expectation of up to 25% travel in this role.

A reasonable estimate of the current base pay range for this position in Ontario $120,800 - $151,000 annually + 14% Target Incentives.

Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors, including location, experience, skill set, education, and related certification. The range for this position in other geographic locations may differ.

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