Principal Architect, Azure Solutions
Austin, TXFull-TimeStaffOther
What You'll Be Doing
- Actively collaborate with sales and delivery to develop client proposals around process and solution options, create roadmaps, and clearly explain technical concepts for shared understanding to facilitate decision-making
- Lead technical and non-technical executive- or sponsor-level client stakeholders on complex technical concepts or design implications
- Lead large-scale, complex technical requirements elicitation, design, and scoping discussions, internally and/or with existing and potential clients
- Decompose large-scale requirements/user stories into tasks, and accurately estimates the effort for themselves or others to complete those tasks
- Delegates technical tasks to other team members for multi-workstream projects of large scale and high complexity
- Provide project leadership on a variety of projects and project types, including multi-workstream large-scale complex projects with global teams
- Collaborate with the project team and internal leadership on potential solutions and mitigation approaches, and participate in client communication at the sponsor level
- Architect, design and set standards for highly complex solutions using a variety of technologies, platforms, and integrations
What You'll Bring to the Role
- 5+ years of experience with Agile delivery and is adaptable as required to methodologies within the client environment
- 5+ years’ experience leading consulting projects for large clients with eight or more of the following types of projects, and is considered a go-to source of knowledge for others: Azure Compute (PaaS & Containers), Data Stores: Fit-for-purpose selection, Messaging & Events, API Design & Management, Integration & APIs, AI & Search, SDLC/DevOps/Platform Engineering, Performance & Scalability/Reliability & Release, Identity & Access (Application-centric), Monitoring & Observability, Documentation & Leadership
- 5+ years’ experience leading consulting projects for large clients with six or more of the following tools and technologies, and is considered a go-to source of knowledge for others: Design patterns and architectural concepts, .NET Core, C#, Front-end development tools (Angular, React, Blazor, or comparable), ORM - Entity Framework/Dapper, Data storage – relational and non-relational, DevOps automation: CI/CD & IaC, Visual Studio and source control: GitHub/ADO, Git and pull requests (e.g. gitflow), Automated tests, Scrum/Kanban/Agile,
- Experience contributing to user stories and backlog content, including task management and progress visibility
- 4 or more Microsoft Azure Application Development & DevOps, AI & Machine Learning, and/or Architecture & Development certifications. AZ204, AZ400, and AZ102 highly recommended.
- Outstanding ability to present to clients in a business-focused, impactful, and persuasive manner
- A proven, repeatable track record of successful large-scale project delivery
