About the job
As an Azure Cloud Architect, you will play a pivotal role in engaging with clients during the pre-sales process, aligning our services with the delivery team's capabilities. You will spearhead technical customer engagements focused on Azure Cloud Infrastructure, leading architectural design sessions and overseeing specific implementation projects or pilots. Your expertise in customer-facing roles will facilitate in-depth technical discussions with senior executives, Enterprise Architects, and IT Management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leverage technical expertise and customer insights to develop a modernization roadmap. Design solutions that address both business and IT needs, ensuring the feasibility of new projects and successful deployments while coordinating essential resources and integrating key infrastructure technologies (e.g., Windows and Linux IaaS, Security, Networking).
- Guarantee that all solutions demonstrate high performance, security, scalability, maintainability, reusability, and reliability upon deployment.
- Evaluate customers’ familiarity with the Azure platform and overall cloud readiness during pre-sales engagements.
- Utilize the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework, Design Patterns, and Well-Architected Framework to inform solution designs during the pre-sales phase.
- Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects to develop comprehensive end-to-end enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform.
- Provide sizing estimates for the solution architecture design and collaborate with NCS partners as necessary.
- Guide the implementation team, ensuring smooth transitions from solution design to delivery architect for implementation.
- Stay updated on technical skills, market trends, and competitive insights; actively share knowledge within the technical community.
- Work closely with the Head of Cloud as a competency leader to formulate new service offerings and contribute to the development of service descriptions and scope of work.
- Assist in optimizing existing offerings through updates to service descriptions and scope of work.
- Act as an Azure Platform evangelist, mentoring customers and internal teams, and guiding new members in training and certifications.
