The Solution Architect leads cloud solution design, engages with clients, and manages implementation projects, ensuring efficiency, security, and compliance with best practices.
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.
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.
- Effective communication skills to interact with clients, understand their requirements, and convey technical information in a clear and concise manner.
- Write & present statements of work
- Lead and coordinate implementation & migration projects, ensuring they stay on track and within scope.
- Maintain exposure to market trends and business productivity improvement opportunities.
- 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, Skills, and Abilities
- 5+ year of experience with Directory & Workstations, Tenant-to-Tenant, Active Directory & Group Policies Migrations
- 5+ year of experience with Microsoft Entra ID (Multi-Factor Authentication, Conditional Access Policies, Connect Sync, formally Azure AD Connect)
- 5+ year 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 Certificiations
- 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 Administrator Associate (SC-300)
- Microsoft Information Protection and Compliance Administrator Associate (SC-400)
- Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert
- Microsoft 365 Endpoint Administrator Associate (MD-102)
- Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty (AZ-140)
- Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert
Benefits - You'll love working at NRI not just for the usual benefits, but for our environment and culture!
- You'll work with a great group of people in a highly collaborative team and results oriented atmosphere
- You'll have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and extremely positive environment where there is always the opportunity to challenge your skills and really move the needle
- You’ll work with large, sophisticated, and progressive clients throughout North America
- We provide a comprehensive benefits program including: $0 Healthcare option, company contribution to Health Savings Account with enrollment in a qualifying plan, 401(k) plus company match, Professional Development funds, Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus 11 company holidays, 4 weeks Parental/Caregiver Leave, company paid family building/fertility benefits through Progyny, Dental and Vision Insurance, and company paid Life/AD&D, short term and long term disability insurance.
Notices
The above description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this position. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, knowledge, skills, or experience required of individuals in this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.
NRI North America is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
NRI North America will accept applications on an ongoing basis.
NRI North America will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with The Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, or otherwise participating in the hiring process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected].
Top Skills
Azure Ad Connect
Cloud Services
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Entra Id
Microsoft Graph
Powershell
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