Principal Architect, Azure Solutions. Austin LilyLifestyle

Principal Architect For Azure Solutions What You'll Be Doing

• Actively collaborate with sales and delivery to develop client proposals around process and solution options, create roadmaps, and clearly explain technical concepts for shared understanding to facilitate decision‑making
• Lead technical and non‑technical executive‑ or sponsor‑level client stakeholders on complex technical concepts or design implications
• Lead large‑scale, complex technical requirements elicitation, design, and scoping discussions, internally and/or with existing and potential clients
• Decompose large‑scale requirements/user stories into tasks, and accurately estimates the effort for themselves or others to complete those tasks
• Delegates technical tasks to other team members for multi‑workstream projects of large scale and high complexity
• Provide project leadership on a variety of projects and project types, including multi‑workstream large‑scale complex projects with global teams
• Collaborate with the project team and internal leadership on potential solutions and mitigation approaches, and participate in client communication at the sponsor level
• Architect, design and set standards for highly complex solutions using a variety of technologies, platforms, and integrations

• 5+ years of experience with Agile delivery and is adaptable as required to methodologies within the client environment
• 5+ years’ experience leading consulting projects for large clients with eight or more of the following types of projects, and is considered a go‑to source of knowledge for others:
  Azure Compute (PaaS & Containers), Data Stores:
  Fit‑for‑purpose selection, Messaging & Events, API Design & Management, Integration & APIs, AI & Search, SDLC/Dev Ops/Platform Engineering, Performance & Scalability/Reliability & Release, Identity & Access (Application‑centric), Monitoring & Observability, Documentation & Leadership
• 5+ years’ experience leading consulting projects for large clients with six or more of the following tools and technologies, and is considered a go‑to source of knowledge for others:
  Design patterns and architectural concepts, .NET Core, C#, Front‑end development tools (Angular, React, Blazor, or comparable), ORM - Entity Framework/Dapper, Data storage - relational and non‑relational, Dev Ops automation: CI/CD & IaC, Visual Studio and source control:
  Git Hub/ADO, Git and pull requests (e.g. gitflow), Automated tests, Scrum/Kanban/Agile
• Experience contributing to user stories and backlog content, including task management and progress visibility
• 4 or more Microsoft Azure Application Development & Dev Ops, AI & Machine Learning, and/or Architecture & Development certifications. AZ204, AZ400, and AZ102 highly recommended.
• Outstanding ability to present to clients in a business‑focused, impactful, and persuasive manner
• A proven, repeatable track record of successful large‑scale project delivery

$170,000 - $210,000 a year

This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program. Actual compensation offered to a candidate may vary based upon geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill levels.

• Medical, dental, vision
• Tax‑advantaged health care accounts
• Financial and income protection benefits
• Paid time off (PTO) and wellness time off.