Solution Architect
Shaping Cloud Ltd - Manchester
Full-time (Permanent)
£70,000
Manchester
Manchester
Published on
26 May 2023
Your primary responsibilities are:
- Understanding problems, needs, requirements of our clients, capturing these and playing them back to confirm understanding
- Designing solutions, or leading on the design of solutions, to ensure our clients are able to solve their problem or achieve their goals
- Quality assurance of technical delivery for our clients – occasionally stepping in to help ensure a successful outcome
Key Responsibilities
Your regular day to day duties will include, but may not be limited to:
- Discovery, Review, and Assessment:
- Define scope of data / information to capture, based on engagement scope and deliverables
- Analyse data captured to identify needs, constraints, and opportunities – informing solution design
- Summarise findings in easy to understand outputs (words, diagrams, schematics, presentations)
- Make recommendations prioritised according to client context
- Help technical and technical leadership stakeholders to understand and get on board with way forward
- Solution Design:
- Work closely with client stakeholders and/ or internal teams to ensure requirements are reflected appropriately in solution designs (e.g. Applications, Networks, Security)
- Design (and test designs) cloud-first solutions, with Azure as the base platform for non-SaaS services
- Identify where automation is best used to implement the design(s)
- Develop technical roadmaps for implementation / adoption
- Ensure all designs are making the most of latest innovations and are secure-by-design
- Keep key client technical stakeholders supportive of designs through positive engagement and knowledge transfer
- Work closely with internal technical teams to develop and deliver proof of concepts (PoC)/ pilots where required
- Pre-sales – support sales and bidding processes through swift high level designs and approaches to go into winning proposals, occasionally part of bid team to provide assurance and answer queries during presentations
- Quality Assurance:
- Oversee technical delivery to ensure delivery is as per design, or modify designs where necessary
- Provide leadership and guidance to internal technical teams, when needed to ensure they stay on track to deliver as intended
- Peer review designs from other architects and be open to peer review of own designs – with overall intention for all designs to be high quality, viable (technically), and feasible (affordable / deliverable)
- Feed into customer success processes to ensure successful outcomes for our clients and the company
Essential Skills and Experience
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Experience designing and delivering solutions in Azure (hands-on technical experience)
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of DevOps and common tooling for automation
- Knowledge of Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
- Evidenced ability to produce presentations and documentation to present complex technical information in simple language and diagrams
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Good communication and client management skills, including written and verbal English
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