Architect,Professional Services (MS Azure Job Calgary area,Alberta Canada,IT/Tech

Position: Architect, Professional Services (MS Azure)

Why you’ll love Softchoice:

We are a technology company that equips organizations to be agile and innovative, and for their people to be productive, creative and happier t means moving them to the cloud, helping them build the workplace of tomorrow, and enabling them to make smarter decisions about their technology portfolio. By doing these things, we create success faster and in circumstances otherwise not possible.

We stand proudly for our people and support their success through career development and advancement. We are recognized and respected for our culture of inclusion and belonging, continuously striving to do what’s good for our people and communities.

The impact you will have:

As an Architect, you will design and lead the implementation of solutions that drive efficiency and address customer challenges. You will deliver on project scopes with a focus on technical excellence, customer satisfaction, continuous improvement and future business growth.

What you’ll do:

As an Architect you will collaborate with presales 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. Your ongoing contributions to practice development and internal initiatives will enhance our project delivery efficiency. Additionally, you will provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and process improvement.

Responsibilities include:

Collaborate with pre-sales and 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, with a proactive approach to identifying and addressing challenges

Mentor junior engineers

Create and complete project documentation, using templates and maintain 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.

What you’ll bring to the table:

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 the following Microsoft Azure topics:

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

An expert level understanding of technology components – client, storage, compute, virtualization, Networking, and Security

Strong scripting skills in various languages and platforms, including Power Shell

Excellent knowledge of core areas in Microsoft Windows Server, Active Directory, and Cloud Identity

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

The ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Strong understanding of some or all the following technologies is an asset:
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