Solution Architect - Modern Work - Collab
The Solution Architect is a key role responsible for leading, designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based solutions that meet the strategic and operational needs of an organization. This role involves engaging with clients & stakeholders, working in cross-functional teams, to understand business drivers, assess complex client environments, and design reliable, scalable, efficient, and cost-effective strategies & solutions leveraging cloud services and industry best-practices.
Summary:
The Solution Architect is a key role responsible for leading, designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based solutions that meet the strategic and operational needs of an organization. This role involves engaging with clients & stakeholders, working in cross-functional teams, to understand business drivers, assess application portfolios, and design reliable, scalable, efficient, and cost-effective strategies & solutions leveraging cloud services and industry best-practices.
Responsibilities
- The position requires a strong background in information architecture/business analysis, particularly in SharePoint and Power Platform, and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Engage with client executive and technical stakeholders to design and build scalable, flexible, and resilient solutions
- Developing comprehensive solutions aligned with business objectives, considering factors such as scalability, performance, security, efficiency, and cost
- Provide expert level client-collateral including architectural drawings, design specifications, implementation guides, documentation, and operational procedures
- Lead technical teams in the development and deployment of cloud solutions, providing expert guidance, and resolving complex technical challenges
- Ensure cloud solutions meet security and compliance standards, including data protection, encryption, access control, and regulatory requirements
- Implement cost-effective strategies to maximize return-on-investment for our clients
- Lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the cloud solution architect community
- Keep current of emerging technologies and industry trends, identify innovative solutions, and recognize opportunities for efficiency.
- Lead engagement teams, delegate responsibilities, and mentor fellow consultants
- Lead and coordinate projects, ensuring they stay on track and within scope
- Work within the sales process to lead technical whiteboards, scope projects, create sales collateral, and present to C-Level executives.
- Comfortable leading client whiteboards and working as part of a functional sales team
- Identify future engagement opportunities during existing client engagements and convey those needs to account executives and practice leadership
- Effective verbal and communication skills to interact with clients, understand their requirements, and convey technical information in a clear and concise manner
- Excellent interpersonal skills, demonstrating the ability to develop rapport with team members and client stakeholders
- Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
- Be a self-starter, self-motivated with the ability to work with minimal supervision
- Practice excellent time management, planning, and organizational skills
- Be agile and able to pivot quickly in response to changing priorities, business needs, or technical challenges.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Microsoft 365 Suite: Teams; SharePoint; OneDrive for Business; Purview
- Microsoft Power Platform: PowerApps; Power Automate
- Copilot: Copilot for Microsoft 365; Copilot Studio
- Migrations: Experience with complex, multi workstream migrations to and from M365
- PowerShell: Extensive experience in M365 PowerShell automation (preferably PnP)
- Expertise in designing SharePoint and web-based content solutions, including UI/UX design and Information Architecture
- Expertise in building solutions that integrate and extend Microsoft 365: SharePoint, Power Platform, Teams, Microsoft Graph, and Copilot Studio
- Experience with developing solutions using the Power Platform suite of products (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Dataverse)
- Experience with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot Studio, including familiarity with the extensibility frameworks surrounding these products
- Evaluating and re-engineering business processes to improve efficiency and workflow automation
- Five or more years in consulting with enterprise clients
- Bachelor's degree or higher education diploma in Information Technology is desired.
- Migration Tooling:DryvIQ, AvePoint Fly, ShareGate, BitTitan, Dataverse; SharePoint Development Framework; Microsoft Syntex/ SharePoint Premium
Preferred Certificiations
- Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert
- Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant (PL-200)
- Microsoft Power Platform Developer (PL-400)
- Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer (PL-500)
- Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect (PL-600)
- Microsoft 365 Administrator (MS-102)
- Prepare security and compliance to support Microsoft 365 Copilot (APL-4002)
- Microsoft Security Operations Analyst (SC-200)
- Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)
- Microsoft Information Protection and Compliance Administrator Associate (SC-400)
Benefits - You'll love working at NRI not just for the usual benefits, but for our environment and culture!
- You'll work with a great group of people in a highly collaborative team and results oriented atmosphere
- You'll have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and extremely positive environment where there is always the opportunity to challenge your skills and really move the needle
- You’ll work with large, sophisticated, and progressive clients throughout North America
- We provide a comprehensive benefits program including: $0 Healthcare option, company contribution to Health Savings Account with enrollment in a qualifying plan, 401(k) plus company match, Professional Development funds, Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus 11 company holidays, 4 weeks Parental/Caregiver Leave, company paid family building/fertility benefits through Progyny, Dental and Vision Insurance, and company paid Life/AD&D, short term and long term disability insurance.
Responsibilities
- Engage with client executive and technical stakeholders to design and build scalable, flexible, and resilient solutions.
- Develop comprehensive solutions aligned with business objectives, considering factors such as scalability, performance, security, efficiency, and cost.
- Provide expert level client-collateral including architectural drawings, design specifications, implementation guides, documentation, and operational procedures.
- Lead technical teams in the development and deployment of cloud solutions, providing expert guidance, and resolving complex technical challenges.
- Ensure cloud solutions meet security and compliance standards, including data protection, encryption, access control, and regulatory requirements.
- Implement cost-effective strategies to maximize return-on-investment for our clients
- Lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the cloud solution architect community.
- Keep current of emerging technologies and industry trends, identify innovative solutions, and recognize opportunities for efficiency.
- Lead engagement teams, delegate responsibilities, and mentor fellow consultants.
- Work within the sales process to lead technical whiteboards, scope projects, create sales collateral, and present to C-Level executives.
- Review technical documentation and sales collateral for punctual and technical correctness.
- Identify new engagement offerings, create client deliverable templates, and revise existing client deliverables as needed.
- Identify future engagement opportunities during existing client engagements and convey those needs to account executives and practice leadership.
- Effective communication skills to interact with clients, understand their requirements, and convey technical information in a clear and concise manner.
- Write & present statements of work
- Lead and coordinate implementation & migration projects, ensuring they stay on track and within scope.
- Maintain exposure to market trends and business productivity improvement opportunities.
- Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to listen and communicate well with clients
- Demonstrate the ability to develop rapport with client technical staff, excellent interpersonal skills
- Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
- Be a self-starter, self-motivated with the ability to work with minimal supervision
- Practice excellent time management, planning, and organizational skills
Required experience in complex enterprise design and implementation in the following technologies:
- Microsoft 365 Suite: Exchange; Teams; SharePoint/SharePoint Online; OneDrive
- Microsoft Purview: Information Protection; Security and Compliance Center; Data Loss Prevention; Compliance Manager; Data Lifecycle Management; Insider Risk Management; Information Barriers
- Microsoft Power Platform: PowerApps; Power BI; Power Automate
- Microsoft Defender: MS Defender for Endpoint; MS Defender of Vulnerability Management; MS Defender for Servers; MS Defender for Cloud; MS Defender for Cloud Apps; MS Defender for Office; MS Defender for XDR; MS Defender for Identity
Preferred experience
- Five or more years in consulting with enterprise clients
- Bachelor's degree or higher education diploma in Information Technology is desired.
- Familiar with multi-cloud strategy and proficiency in other cloud providers such as AWS (Amazon Web Services) and GCP (Google Cloud Platform).
- Experience with Microsoft Sentinel
- Experience with SQL Server
- Experience with PKI
- Experience with Microsoft CoPilot for M365
- Experience with Microsoft Security CoPilot
Preferred Certifications
- Azure Administrator Associate
- Azure Network Engineer Associate
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
- Microsoft Security Operations Analyst (SC-200)
- Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)
- Microsoft Information Protection and Compliance Administrator Associate (SC-400)
- Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert
- Microsoft 365 Endpoint Administrator Associate (MD-102)
- Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty (AZ-140)
- Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert
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