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You Are: The Azure Cloud Enterprise Architect will review and evaluate architectures of existing systems and software products to identify reuse and platforming opportunities as well as refactoring opportunities.
The role is a technical, customer facing role that is accountable for the end to end customer cloud deployment experience.
The Work: Provide technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to the teams in the implementation of established architectures and designs Mentor and coach architects and developers to ensure that architecture and requirements best practices are followed Establish and enforce quality standards for cloud software architectures.
Drive high priority customer initiatives on Azure in collaboration with government clients Own the Azure technical customer engagement including developing the architectural design on specific implementation projects and or Proofs of Concepts, and Cloud solution architecture components Assess Azure footprint readiness for deployment activities Here Is What You Need: Bachelors Degree or 7 years of equivalent industry experience Experience integration with Azure components with Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Experience with configuration management and automation technologies with one or more of the following: PowerShell DSC, Chef, ARM Templates, and/or Puppet Working knowledge with AGILE development, SCRUM and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with one or more of the following programming languages: Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, BiCep, Bash, Nice to have: .Net, .Net Core, Java, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, Node.js and/or other niche’ languages Bonus Points If: Advanced Degree 10 years of industry experience Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends Deep technical experience in infrastructure design including public and government cloud, networking, virtualization, identity, security, and storage Understanding of how to build resilient multi-site architectures Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior executives and growing cloud consumption share in large or highly strategic accounts Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or services company Problem-solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources Exceptional verbal and written communication Certifications Experience as a team lead in consultative role on customer engagements involving software application projects Ability to be hands-on in leadership roles as well as manage others to execute and deliver project deliverables Qualifications 3 years senior level support with cloud infrastructure as part of responsibilities 5 years of architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications (i.e.
having an architectural sense for ensuring availability, reliability, etc.) 2 years of experience in migrating on premise workloads to the cloud 5 years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects (where necessary, managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects Oversight experience on major transformation projects and successful transitions to implementation support team Experience with one or more of the following: Terraform IaC, HCL opensource, Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, ExpressRoute, vWAN, Global Reach, Azure Active Directory, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Azure Storage, Networking and Security Solutions, ARM Templates, JSON scripting, Windows and/or Linux administration, Azure App Services, Orchestration, Kubernetes, and Containers (Docker preferred) Experience with one or more of the following: Azure Integration Services (Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus & Event Grid) Azure SQL Database, Azure Web Jobs, MySQL, SQL Server, SQL Server IaaS, SharePoint on Azure, Hyper-V, VMWare, System Center, firewalls, Web App proxies, Bash, BGP, Chef, Puppet, OSS Technologies, PowerShell scripting, Operations Management Suite (OMS) The Extras: US Citizenship Required As required by theColorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, Accenture Federal Services provides a reasonable range of minimum compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado.
Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location.
For the state of Colorado only , the range of starting pay for this role is$137,700
– $193,000 and information on benefits offered is here.
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