Azure Persales Architect at Westfield Consulting

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Conduct Customer Facing Workshops and Sessions to drive demand for Microsoft Azure Advanced Workloads. 
• Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements. 
• Ensure adherence of specifications to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc. 
• Proactively provide guidance on Azure Sizing and Costing regimes to Sales Team. 
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Decisions throughout Sales/Presales lifecycle. 
• Demonstrate experience presenting technical topics in front of a senior audience, including C-Levels
• Conduct full technical discovery, identifying pain points, business and technical requirements, “as is” and “to be” scenario
• Compare solution alternatives across both technical and business parameters which support the define cost and service requirements. 
• Apply methodology, reusable assets, and previous work experience to deliver consistently high-quality work. 
• Stay educated on new and emerging technologies/patterns/methodologies and market offerings that may be of interest to our clients. 
• Adapt to existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems. 
• Use considerable judgment to define solutions and seeks guidance on complex problems. 
• Prepare and deliver product messaging to highlight value propositions and unique differentiators. 
• Lead or co-lead answers to RFPs issued by clients 
• Collaborate on a strategic and tactical level with our strategic partners

Requirements

• Minimum of 3+ years overall IT industry experience 
• Minimum of 2+ years in a Cloud Consultant role using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms. 
• Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions for Microsoft-centric solutions based on industry standards using Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS capabilities. 
• Experience with any of the following: O365, Azure, Azure Stack, Azure AD 
• Experience with claims-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC 
• Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc. 
• Experience building and supporting mission-critical technology components with DR capabilities 
• Experience with multi-tier system and service design and development for large enterprises 
• Extensive, real-world experience designing technology components for enterprise solutions and defining solution architectures and reference architectures with a focus on cloud technologies 
• Experience supporting DevOps Pipeline 
• Familiarity with Cloud Automation using Azure PowerShell, CLI and ARM Templates

Added advantage

• Azure Solutions Architect 
• TOGAF Certification
• ITIL Foundation