Architect, Professional Services; Azure

What You’ll Do

As an Architect you will collaborate with pre‑sales architects and sales teams to engage with clients, understand their objectives and identify new opportunities. You will provide presales solutions teams with level of effort estimates to ensure high customer satisfaction while maintaining project profitability and competitiveness. In addition, your daily responsibilities will include leading projects as part of an implementation team, contributing to practice development and internal initiatives, and providing technical leadership and mentorship to team members.

• Collaborate with pre‑sales, sales teams and clients to understand business requirements and design comprehensive technology solutions.
• Provide technical expertise and support during the sales process, including presentations, demonstrations, and proposal development.
• Assume technical leader role during design and implementation of technology solutions, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Provide overviews of complex solutions, architectures, integrations and project updates with precision and clarity to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ensure cloud solutions adhere to security standards and compliance best practices.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts, proactively identifying and addressing challenges.
• Mentor junior engineers.
• Create and complete project documentation, using templates and maintaining a high level of accuracy and quality.
• Contribute to the development and growth of the Azure Cloud Delivery Practice, including creating best practices, methodologies, templates and offerings.
• Timely timesheet submission and detailed work notes.

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
• 8+ years’ work experience in a client‑facing professional services role, or 10+ years of related industry experience.
• Expert knowledge of Azure Services.
• Expert technical knowledge of Azure topics including:
  • Subscriptions Management
  • Security and Monitoring
  • Azure Policies
  • Resource Organization
  • Azure Identity and Access Management
  • Azure Networking
  • Cost Management
  • Business Continuity Planning
• A strong understanding of infrastructure as code, cloud automation, governance and cost optimization.
• Expert level understanding of technology components – client, storage, compute, virtualization, networking and security.
• Strong scripting skills in languages such as Power Shell.
• Excellent knowledge of core areas in Microsoft Windows Server, Active Directory and Cloud Identity.
• Experience with application/database/infrastructure migrations from on‑prem to hybrid/cloud.
• Proven ability to lead cross‑functional teams and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Strong communication, presentation and consulting skills, including technical writing.
• Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of Dev Ops tools such as Git Hub, Azure Dev Ops, Bit Bucket, containerization concepts and Kubernetes is an asset.
• Microsoft certification:
  Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Network Engineer Associate and/or Azure Security Engineer Associate, or certifications aligned with specialty paths.
• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in a relevant field or equivalent industry experience.

Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois: $128,800 to $161,000 annually + 14% Target Incentives.
Georgia: $122,360 to $152,950 annually + 14% Target Incentives.
Actual salary will be based on location, experience, skill set, education and certification.

• Health and Wellbeing:
  Medical, Dental and Vision Care, Flexible Spending Account, Employee Assistance Program.
• Financial Benefits:
  
  401(k) Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance.
• Paid Time Off: PTO and Sick Leave (starting at 20 days per year), Holidays, Parental Leave, Volunteer Days, Bereavement Leave.
• Additional Perks:
  Employee Discount Program.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion and belonging. People seeking employment at Softchoice are considered without regard to any protected category including but not limited to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

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