Azure Technical Architect

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What's In It For You:

• Collaborate with a diverse network of people
• Actively deliver innovative solutions for Accenture's clients
• Apply your skills and experience to help drive business transformation
• Work locally or remotely, significantly reducing or eliminating the demands to travel

Project Description:

• We are seeking an Azure Technical Architect.
• Will work remotely then onsite if needed when Covid restrictions are lifted.
• This is a contract opportunity that does not offer sponsorship now or in the future.
• Must be able to work on W2.
• Responsible for delivering Data On Cloud projects for Azure based deals.
• The ideal candidate would also be responsible for developing and delivering Azure cloud solutions to meet todays high demand in areas such as AIML, IoT, advanced analytics, open source, enterprise collaboration, microservices, serverless, etc.
• Work with Sales and Bus Dev teams in providing Azure Technical Architecture expertise while pursuing client opportunities.
• Ability to build Azure cloud architectures and provide prescriptive guidance across network, storage, Big Data Platform Services, serverless architectures, hadoop ecosystem, vendor products, RDBMS & NoSQL databases and security.
• Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new solutions and migrating existing data applications on the Azure platform.
• Conduct full technical discovery, identifying pain points, business and technical requirements, “as is” and “to be” scenarios.
• Assess the full technology stack of services required including PaaS (Platform as-a-service), IaaS (Infrastructure as-a-service), SaaS (software as-a-service), operations, management and automation.
• Lead the discussions and early analysis of the cloud concepts as it relates to Clients’s Journey to Cloud methodology so that clear use cases are developed and prioritized as well as transitioning these concepts from ideas to proof-of-concepts all the way to production delivery with the full support of the appropriate teams.
• Compare solution alternatives across both technical and business parameters which support the define cost and service requirements.
• Apply Accenture methodology, Accenture reusable assets, and previous work experience to delivery consistently high-quality work.
• Stay educated on new and emerging technologies/patterns/methodologies and market offerings that may be of interest to our clients.
• Adapt to existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems.
• Understand the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals.
• Use considerable judgment to define solution and seeks guidance on complex problems.
• Prepare and deliver product messaging in an effort to highlight value proposition and unique differentiators.
• Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor. May interact with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture. Establish methods and procedures.
• on new assignments with guidance.
• Manage small teams of deliver engineers successfully delivering work efforts (if in an independent contributor role) at a client or within Accenture.
• Extensive travel may be required.

Required Skills:

• At least 5 years of consulting or client service delivery experience on Azure.
• At least 10 years of experience in big data, database and data warehouse architecture and delivery.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in 2 of the following areas: Solution/technical architecture in the cloud

• Experience with private and public cloud architectures, pros/cons, and migration considerations.
• Extensive hands-on experience implementing data migration and data processing using Azure services.

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