Azure Solution Architect

Azure Solution Architect Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Azure Solution Architect to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Develops internal Azure based prototypes and assets for internal educational purposes and to reduce project delivery times;
  • Analysing customer’s business and technical needs and provide them with a solution to meet their needs;
  • You must be a New Zealand citizen and New Zealand Defence security clearance (held or prepared to be vetted);
  • Preparing reports and responses;
  • Managing the delivery of projects;
  • Explaining complex technical concepts to an executive audience;
  • Participates and support sales activities;
  • Performing demonstrations to business and technical audiences;
  • Manages large to small teams and has the hands-on skills to support the team given the needs of the project;
  • Involvement in presales activities – such as demonstrations and working with the sales team to qualify, research and validate opportunities;
  • Mentoring the technical team within projects;
  • Architects and designs Azure cloud-based solutions that meet the project requirements to include security and compliance standards.

Requirements:

  • Analytics including HDInsight (Hadoop), Machine Learning, Power BI, Data Lake Store, Data Lake Analytics;
  • Experience with event driven architectures and constituent technologies (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis) and patterns (Event Sourcing, etc);
  • Experience with serverless frameworks and architectures;
  • Third party OSS PaaS platforms such as RedHat OpenShift and CloudFoundry;
  • Internet of Things including IoT Hub, Machine Learning, Stream Analytics, and Event Hubs;
  • Cognitive Services including natural language processing, speech processing, and image processing.