Senior Solutions Architect

Perficient is seeking an Senior Azure Solutions Architect to lead in our growing Azure Practice. An Ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in a hands-on, technical role. Preferably (and in addition), the candidate will have extensive experience in a customer facing role, managing customer and Practice expectations and working within the Microsoft channel ecosystem. This role requires a minimum of 5 years of experience working in a consulting capacity. The candidate will work within a fast-paced team with dynamically changing requirements. The ideal candidate must be a self-starter who can “hit the ground running” and work with minimal direction.  

 Job Overview:

As an Azure Senior Solutions Architect, you will be the subject matter expert in your target focus area and contribute to a variety of cloud engineering teams to deliver end-to-end cloud transformation for our customers, as part of our fast-growing Azure Practice. This challenging role requires significant knowledge and experience across many facets of cloud modernization including Infrastructure, Applications, APIs, Containerization, innovation with Artificial Intelligence, and Modern Data Services.  The ideal candidate possesses should be deeply familiar with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption framework and able to align & lead strategies focusing on the Governance, Security, Monitoring and Cost Management aspects of the Azure ecosystem. We are looking for disciplined consultants with deep technical backgrounds, experience building world-class cloud solutions and strong leadership skills. 

The core responsibility of this role is to provide Azure leadership through practice development, architectural vision and implementation expertise throughout the assessment, proposal, design, implementation and operational phases of  customer engagements. You will work alongside Perficient resources to serve all needs within the Microsoft Azure cloud, heavily leverage Azure native services for migration and modernization and enable open source and third-party solutions on Azure infrastructure. The role often results in the Senior Solutions Architect becoming the trusted, technical face of the engagement; strong leadership and consulting skills are necessary. Successful candidates must be willing to multitask and understand that customer engagements will vary over time and must maintain and evolve skillsets to meet those needs.

 

 

Leadership Qualifications:

• 5+ years of enterprise architecture, infrastructure and/or solution delivery experience and a Bachelor of Computer Science, MIS or equivalent degree; without a degree, three additional years of relevant professional experience (8+ years in total)
• 3+ years delivering enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform
• Experience working within the Microsoft partner ecosystem.
• Demonstrable record of accomplishment in leading and managing successful client engagements
• Experienced understanding in structuring and leading team resources to ensure a high probability of successful engagements
• Deep dedication to managing time while balancing several simultaneous project engagements
• Collaborate with project managers and customers to develop backlogs based off the solution design
• Ability to lead strategic discussions supporting business innovation leveraging AI.
• Serve as primary point of contact for customers including issue escalation, new feature requests and occasionally project backlog problem resolution
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology
• Sufficient depth and breadth of technical knowledge to be individually responsible for the design and scope of deliverables within a field of expertise
• Able to communicate and present complex issues with preciseness, assurance and confidence with client representatives including management and C-suite level
• Passion for technology and a high technical aptitude
• Self-sufficient, high integrity, more than just competent
• Demonstrates the use of consulting skills including: questioning, listening, ideas development, permission and rapport, and influencing
• Ability to conduct/lead oral status/technical interchange meetings with clients – serve as primary point of contact for customers including issue escalation, new feature requests, and occasionally complaints
• Owns and produces customer documentation. Ability to translate technical details into concise and easy to understand written form
• Ability to translate requirements from client meetings into requirements documents and proposal presentations

Technology Capabilities:

• Expertise in Azure AI services including:
  • Hands-on experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure AI Studio, Azure Vision Services, A