Solution Architect - Modern Work (Mergers and Migrations)

Role Overview

The Solution Architect is a key role responsible for leading, designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based solutions that meet the strategic and operational needs of an organization. This role involves engaging with clients & stakeholders, working in cross-functional teams, to understand business drivers, assess application portfolios, and design reliable, scalable, efficient,and cost-effective strategies & solutions leveraging cloud services and industry best-practices.

Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Engage with client executive and technical stakeholders to design and build scalable, flexible, and resilient solutions.
• Develop comprehensive solutions aligned with business objectives, considering factors such as scalability, performance, security, efficiency, and cost.
• Provide expert level client-collateral including architectural drawings, design specifications, implementation guides, documentation, and operational procedures.
• Lead technical teams in the development and deployment of cloud solutions, providing expert guidance, and resolving complex technical challenges.
• Ensure cloud solutions meet security and compliance standards, including data protection, encryption, access control, and regulatory requirements.
• Implement cost-effective strategies to maximize return-on-investment for our clients.
• Lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the cloud solution architect community.
• Keep current of emerging technologies and industry trends, identify innovative solutions, and recognize opportunities for efficiency.
• Lead engagement teams, delegate responsibilities, and mentor fellow consultants.
• Work within the sales process to lead technical whiteboards, scope projects, create sales collateral, and present to C-Level executives.
• Review technical documentation and sales collateral for punctual and technical correctness.
• Identify new engagement offerings, create client deliverable templates, and revise existing client deliverables as needed.
• Identify future engagement opportunities during existing client engagements and convey those needs to account executives and practice leadership.
• Lead and coordinate implementation & migration projects, ensuring they stay on track and within scope.
• Maintain exposure to market trends and business productivity improvement opportunities.
• Write & present statements of work.

Required Skills and Abilities

• Effective communication skills to interact with clients, understand their requirements, and convey technical information in a clear and concise manner.
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to listen and communicate well with clients.
• Demonstrate the ability to develop rapport with client technical staff, excellent interpersonal skills.
• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• 5+ years of experience with Directory & Workstations, Tenant-to-Tenant, Active Directory & Group Policies Migrations.
• 5+ years of experience with Microsoft Entra ID (Multi-Factor Authentication, Conditional Access Policies, Connect Sync, formally Azure AD Connect).
• 5+ years of experience with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity concepts.
• Functional knowledge of networking technologies including TCP/IP, DHCP, and DNS.
• Knowledge of Microsoft 365 cloud solutions.
• Microsoft 365 management and administration.
• Advanced automation skills (PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, etc.).

Preferred Certifications

• Azure Administrator Associate
• Azure Network Engineer Associate
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
• Microsoft Security Operations Analyst (SC-200)
• Microsoft Identity and Access Admin