Solutions Architect - Agile Software Delivery (Azure Assessments-Focused)

Are you looking for a role that motivates and challenges you? Are you ready for an opportunity for growth? Do you want to work on teams where people roll up their sleeves to take on tough problems together, and regularly blow the doors off our clients with their outstanding teamwork? If you answered yes to those questions, 3Cloud might just be for you!

At 3Cloud, we hire people who aren’t afraid to experiment or fail. We hire people who are willing to give direct and candid feedback to their managers, leaders, and team members. We hire people who jump at those opportunities because they care about our collective growth and success. We hire people who challenge and hold each other accountable for living 3Cloud’s core values because they know that it will result in amazing experiences and solutions for our clients and each other.

Solution Architects in the Architect Role are experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth, business acumen, and strong interpersonal skills. You will partner with our clients, our Sales team, and our Delivery team to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient architectures and solutions that address our client’s business objectives and accelerate Azure adoption. To do that, a candidate for this role needs depth in both technical and strategic aspects of cloud-based, agile software delivery, and experience that they can leverage to build out a gap analysis and strategic roadmap and plan for addressing those gaps. Lastly, it is paramount that any candidate for this role have confidence and capabilities to build and propose solutions that appeal to both executives and engineers in a way that is easily understood and that builds trust in our capabilities as a true partner. 

The Agile Software Delivery (ASD) Launch team is a small team of experienced architects and business strategists who are deployed on strategic client engagements where complexity, risk, and opportunity for client acquisition and growth is particularly high. Our team is specifically responsible for delivering engagements that focus on elevating a client's modernization strategy, and accelerating their time to market with modern, innovative, and robust processes and solutions. We achieve this by leveraging our collective experiences in the industry, asking powerful questions, identifying our client’s highest value business objectives, uncovering previously unknown risks and complexity, and earning both our client’s trust and repeated business. In collaboration with our traditional Solution Architects, our Launch team members also participate in proposing and selling engagements alongside our Sales Directors and Executives for clients where the launch team members are engaged.

Internally, ASD Launch Team members are also responsible for both recommending and carrying out improvements to 3Cloud’s internal strategies around operationalization, change management, and processes surrounding strategic engagements. The ASD Launch team is successful when execution of assessment engagements is consistent, high quality, and results in the Ultimate Experience for 3Cloud, our delivery consultants, and our clients.

Responsibilities and Desired Outcomes

Inspire and Lead our Clients

• Convey 3Cloud’s cloud strategy and deep technical expertise effectively and appropriately to technical, business, and executive level audiences, supporting successful relationship building and engagement selling
• Encourage our clients to use Microsoft cloud-based services and platforms as a catalyst to increase their business agility
• Analyze and assess our clients’ organization(s), system(s), process(es), and strategy(s) in service to aligning the optimal business, process, and technology-based solution(s). These solutions should aim to meet or exceed our clients’ business objectives, while supporting or furthering 3Cloud’s business strategy and goals
• Serve as a trusted technical and/or business advisor, motivating our clients to evolve and disrupt “business as usual” by adopting modern, cloud-first approaches to how they build and deliver software

Design and Develop Robust and Innovative Proposals and Solutions

• Effectively gather key business and technical needs and objectives during early discovery, such that initial proposals address our client’s needs, align to their objectives, and set up our delivery organization for a successful follow-on engagement
• Craft solutions that directly connect proposed technology and process-based changes to measurable business value with clear and agreed upon success criteria
• Accurately scope and estimate proposed projects that meet customers’ needs and objectives, satisfy budgetary needs, also providing appropriate time for delivery to provide the “Ultimate ASD Experience”
• Communicates beyond the technical