Azure Cloud Architect

Yochana; United States; Remote; USD 132,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in IT services is seeking a Cloud Architect to drive sales growth and strategic alignment with Microsoft. This role involves leading technical solutions, mentoring teams, and ensuring robust solution architectures. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in the Microsoft cloud ecosystem and relevant certifications.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

Qualifications

• Minimum 12-15 years’ experience in a technical role.
• Hands-on experience in Azure Data/AI stack.

Responsibilities

• Lead sales motions including customer conversations and solution workshops.
• Act as a trusted advisor and mentor to customers.

Skills

Collaboration

Problem Solving

Executive Presence

Adaptability

Analytical Skills

Education

Microsoft and Industry Certifications

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Fabric

Azure OpenAI

Job description

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Senior Resource Specialist @ Yochana IT Solutions INC | Global Talent Acquisition

Location: Seattle, WA or New Jersey, NJ Remote

We are on the lookout for highly talented and self-motivated Cloud Architects to join us on our journey in advancing our strategic partnership with Microsoft. Focused on industry verticals and working with a small team of specialists, you will be responsible for helping drive sales growth and strategic alignment between us and Microsoft across the entire Microsoft cloud ecosystem (Azure, D365, M365 and Power Platform) replying heavily on the Microsoft Well-Architected and Cloud Adoption Frameworks.

Your Role & Responsibilities

• Leading proactive and supporting reactive sales motions including active participation in customer and advisor conversations, bid submissions, solution workshops and bid defense sessions. You will be responsible for the technical solution, sizing, and implementation/operations approaches as part of the RFI or RPF response process.
• Lead face to face conversations with existing and potential customers, Microsoft teams and internal business and technology leaders.
• Leading PoC, landscape assessment and early-stage technology implementation projects. Creating and maintaining full-stack solutions demonstrations within our multiple lab environments.
• Leading reviews and technical evaluations of solution architectures ensuring proposed solutions are scalable, robust, and secure.
• Supporting Delivery teams in the resolution, root-cause identification, and identification of preventative and corrective measures for exceptional critical, customer impacting issues
• Acting as a trusted advisor, a mentor and guru to customers and internal teams. You will support our skilling and thought-leadership programs. Running workshops creating, publishing, and presenting white papers, technical documents, best practices, and points of view
• A strong Program Management approach is necessary to track, report and ensure timely completion of all activities and ensure suitable reporting and dashboards are maintained to track and report individual and team progress and performance

Qualifications & Experience

• A detailed understanding of the Microsoft Cloud, with a focus on Azure, and how they are engineered to work together is necessary for this role. Candidates should have a minimum of 12-15 years’ experience in a technical role with a GSI. Successful candidates must be able to apply their experience to solve business issues, create excited customers and build commercially viable products.
• The Cloud business is continually changing so continual learning and ability to research new topics is critical for success in this role.
• Hands-on, detailed experience in creation of winning solutions across
• The Azure Data/AI stack, especially focusing on the complete breadth of Microsoft Fabric, Foundry and the Azure OpenAI stack.
• The Microsoft application modernization stack including cloud-native architectures, agent and agentic solutions and AI UI.
• The candidate should have experience in similar technical architecture roles, focused on the Microsoft cloud ecosystem, ideally within a Systems Integrator of similar scale and scope.
• Candidates should hold relevant Microsoft and Industry body certifications

Necessary Skills

• Celebrates team first and individual successes and creates a safe environment for constructive feedback. Ability to be collaborative and collegial and possess the confidence to make tough decisions
• Inclusive and collaborative – driving teamwork and cross-team alignment and building relationships and networks across the various ecosystems to leverage ideas and best practice
• Ability to work flexibly among quickly changing priorities while consistently delivering to tight deadlines
• Strong executive presence including written communication, executive reporting, and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort to large and small technical audiences.
• Anticipates problems and sees how a problem and its solution will affect other projects, people, or processes
• Should not only be able to identify and document dependencies, conflicts, roadblocks, and issues but solve them focusing on agreed deadlines. Must be able to set own priorities, follow-through, and work towards agreed targets with minimum supervision.
• Technology is rapidly changing and evolving, and successful candidates must take responsibility for the continual development of their own skills.
• Methodical approach to detail is important. Should be able to identify sources of data and analyze information from multiple sources including technological trends, buyer behaviors and financial performance to create actionable and positive recommendations.

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Senior Resource Specialist

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development and Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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