Sr. Solution Architect (Azure)

Presidio, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Presidio is seeking a Sr. Solution Architect in New York to drive technical pre‑sales excellence and customer success within a vertical. The role blends hands‑on solution design with team leadership, focusing on Azure migrations, security, and scalable cloud platforms.

Ideal candidates bring deep Azure expertise, IaC experience, and the ability to translate complex architectures into compelling business value while guiding delivery and quality standards.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience in solution architecture or pre‑sales.
• 5+ years in solutions architecture, pre‑sales, or delivery.
• 3+ years delivering strategic IT consulting and cloud governance.
• Strong Azure expertise with a focus on security and IAM.
• Experience with IaC, cost modeling, and modern cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Create client-facing deliverables and translate cloud architectures into engagements.
• Scope workshops and migrate on‑prem to Azure with security in mind.
• Design IAM, security controls, and regulatory compliant solutions.
• Lead IaC/CI‑CD initiatives to automate deployments.
• Own proposal lifecycle and coordinate cross‑functional reviews.
• Standardize solution design methodologies across the team.

Skills

Azure core services

Azure Well-Architected

Multi-account Azure

Cloud migration strategies

IaC / Terraform

Executive communication

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Azure DevOps

Job description

Presidio, Where Teamwork and Innovation Shape the Future

At Presidio, we're at the forefront of a global technology revolution, transforming industries through cutting‑edge digital solutions and next‑generation AI. We empower businesses - and their internal customers - to achieve more through innovation, automation, and intelligent insights.

The Role

We are seeking an Sr. Solution Architect to expand our Solutions Architecture team, working within an industry‑specific vertical to drive technical pre‑sales excellence and customer success. This role blends hands‑on solution architecture with people management, focusing on enhancing team expertise, standardizing best practices, and delivering high‑quality, technical solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop client‑facing deliverables - including high‑level solution summaries, proposals, staffing models, Statements of Work (SOWs), and responses to RFPs/RFIs - translating complex cloud architectures into clear, commercially sound engagements.
• Lead the scoping of workshops, assess, mobilize, and execution of migrating on‑premises applications and legacy data centers to Azure.
• Design robust cloud security, identity, and access management (IAM) strategies, ensuring adherence to industry regulatory and compliance standards.
• Drive infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools to build automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Act as a subject matter expert and managing the sales cycle from requirements gathering to handoff to delivery.
• Own the proposal approval lifecycle - coordinating cross‑functional review cycles, managing internal stakeholder sign‑off, and ensuring all client‑facing deliverables meet Presidio's quality and standards.
• Develop and implement standardized methodologies for solution design, deployment, and optimization, incorporating industry‑specific frameworks.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of relevent experience
• 5+ years of experience in solutions architecture, technical pre‑sales, delivery, or similar customer‑facing technical roles.
• 3+ years of experience in delivery and pre‑sales of consulting and advisory services for strategic solutions such as IT strategy, Application Placement, and Cloud Governance
• Deep Azure expertise across core services with strong working knowledge of container orchestration, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and Azure Well‑Architected principles.
• Exceptional communication and executive presence - able to command the room with both technical architects and C‑suite stakeholders, translating complex Azure solutions into compelling business value narratives.
• Strong cloud migration and modernization background - including experience architecting lift‑and‑shift, re‑platform, and re‑architect, platform modernization solutions across diverse enterprise environments and industries.
• Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, and modern application architectures - including microservices, serverless, and event‑driven patterns on Azure - enabling credible, forward‑looking solution conversations with clients.
• Experience in solution design methodologies and technical best practices that drive consistency and quality across the team.

Required Technical Skills:

• Expert‑level knowledge of Azure core services.
• Proficiency in Azure Well‑Architected Framework across all five pillars.
• Hands‑on experience designing multi‑account, multi‑region Azure architectures for enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience architecting cloud migration strategies including lift‑and‑shift, re‑platform, and re‑architect approaches.
• Familiarity with Azure or third‑party migration tooling.
• Experience building Azure cost calculations and building cost models for client estimates and proposals.
• Active Azure certification is highly preferred

Your future at Presidio

Joining Presidio means stepping into a culture of trailblazers - thinkers, builders, and collaborators - who push the boundaries of what's possible. With our expertise AI‑driven analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and next‑gen infrastructure, we enable businesses to stay ahead in an ever‑evolving digital world.

Here, your impact is real. Whether you're harnessing the power of Generative AI, architecting resilient digital ecosystems, or driving data‑driven transformation, you'll be part of a team that is shaping the future.

About Presidio

Presidio is committed to hiring the most qualified candidates to join our amazing culture. We aim to attract and hire top talent from all backgrounds, including underrepresented and marginalized communities. We encourage women, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans to apply for open roles at Presidio. Diversity of skills and thought is a key component to our business success.

At Presidio, speed and quality meet technology and innovation. Presidio is a trusted ally for organizations across industries with a decades‑long history of building traditional IT foundations and deep expertise in AI and automation, security, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing. Presidio fills gaps, removes hurdles, optimizes costs, and reduces risk. Presidio's expert technical team develops custom applications, provides managed services, and enables actionable data insights and builds forward‑thinking solutions that drive strategic outcomes for clients globally. For more information visit https://presidio.com

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.

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