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Role Description
The SHI Services Principal Architect – Azure will lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale cloud solutions for our company’s end customers and partners. They will also serve as a thought leader in the Azure services practice. This position requires a combination of deep technical expertise, strategic leadership, and customer-facing consulting skills.
- Serve as the lead architect on Azure professional services engagements, responsible for overall solution design, technical integrity, and successful delivery
- Translate customer requirements into Azure architectures, aligning with best practices, security, and operational excellence
- Collaborate with project managers, engineers, and consultants to ensure solutions are delivered on time, on budget, with high customer satisfaction
- Act as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers throughout the post-sales lifecycle, providing architecture guidance, technical leadership, and thought partnership
- Lead workshops, assessments, design sessions, and technical deep dives across a wide range of Azure capabilities (IaaS, PaaS, networking, identity, security, DevOps)
- Own technical governance and support project delivery milestones, documentation, and architecture reviews
- Identify risks and drive mitigation strategies across architecture and delivery phases
- Contribution to continuous improvement of delivery methodologies, templates, and best practices
- Support knowledge transfer and enablement for customer teams and internal delivery staff
- Stay current with Microsoft Azure innovations, roadmap, and service updates to maintain leadership in this space
- Contribute to the development of the SHI Microsoft Azure services practice including building reusable delivery frameworks, defining engagement best practices and creating content for Sales and Delivery
- Provide thought leadership through presentations, whitepapers, and industry engagements
- Work closely with sales, engineering, and delivery teams to ensure successful project execution
- Drive the growth of professional services revenue by identifying and pursuing Microsoft Azure focused opportunities
- Develop and deliver a world-class professional services experience
Qualifications
- Ability to design, implement, and configure robust AI solutions, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and technical specifications – Expert
- Ability to design comprehensive Azure structures and frameworks to meet complex requirements – Expert
- The ability to design, implement, and support multi-tier applications and cloud-based architectures to meet organizational needs – Expert
- Ability to oversee and direct projects to completion, ensuring goals are met, resources are utilized efficiently, and stakeholders are satisfied – Expert
- Background in large-scale migrations, hybrid cloud, Azure landing zones, and application modernization projects
- Experience with regulated or complex environments
- Familiarity with ITIL, Agile, and modern delivery frameworks
- Proven experience delivering enterprise Azure solutions in a post-sales, customer-facing capacity
- Strong understanding of core Azure services and architecture patterns across compute, networking, identity, storage, containers, and automation
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code (ARM, Bicep, Terraform), DevOps pipelines, and CI/CD practices
- Strong knowledge of security, governance, identity (Entra ID), and compliance considerations in Azure
Requirements
- Completed Bachelor’s Degree or relevant work experience required
- Ability to travel occasionally
- Microsoft Cloud Certifications
- Minimum 10 years of technical experience with increasing responsibility
- Experience working in professional services, consulting, or systems integration delivery models
Benefits
- Medical, vision, dental, 401K, and flexible spending
