Solution Architecture

Microsoft Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) is a global organization hosting over 6,000 strategic sellers, industry and security experts, elite engineers, world-class data scientists and architects, consultants, and delivery specialists. Together with our partners, we help Microsoft’s most strategic customers worldwide to address their specific challenges and provide comprehensive and industry-specific solutions that meet their unique needs. ISD is at the forefront of innovation, driving value across the entirety of the customers’ digital and AI transformation journey through repeatable and customized cutting-edge solutions through strategic engagements with customers across the globe powered by Microsoft Cloud and AI.**Responsibilities**:
- Lead client engagements from definition through delivery to ensure technical transformation success for our customers.
- Collaborate with enterprise customers to scope and define requirements, architect and design solutions, develop, and deliver transformational, customized industry solutions and services.
- Ensure all solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, repeatability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment
- Develop deep relationships with key customer decision makers (both Business and IT) who drive long-term innovation and transformation to our customers product roadmap.
- Be a Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers and drive product improvements.
- Proactively identify opportunities for integrating modern architecture patterns and emerging technical solutions into the current design
- Evaluate, identify, mitigate and eliminate risk, provide guidance, and propose immediate solutions
- Comfortable and effective communicator with all stakeholders, including senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, Developers, Data Scientists, and IT Management
- Lead deep technical architecture discussions and development of POCs
- Work with multiple customers to create Proof of concepts (POCs) / Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) etc. and guide customers to production deployment and operationalization.
- Collaborate with other Architects and technology stakeholders to develop complex end-to-end Enterprise grade solutions.
- Create exceptional cross-team collaboration and communication. Partner with all required Microsoft stakeholders and partners to drive role clarity, account coverage, project assignment and effective cross-team collaboration
- Ensure delivery of high-quality production deployments that are resilient and successful
- Coach and enable your team members to accelerate innovation programs to production, including guidance on architectural design, technical recommendations, blocker escalations, and technical resource orchestration.

**Technology Areas**

**Application Development**
- Extensive experienced in implementing, operating, customizing, tuning and troubleshooting Cloud solutions.
- Designing scalable solutions on cloud platforms with focus on performance and resiliency, utilizing microservices architectures
- Application design patterns, and anti-patterns, such as MVC, CQRS and/or SAGA
- Interacting with and querying databases and/or NoSQL datastores
- Application monitoring and end to end telemetry
- Source code management using Git or other source control technologies such as TFS
- Open source technologies and frameworks

**Microservices**
- Comprehensive expertise in microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Proficient with Kubernetes ecosystem such as DAPR, ISTIO, HELM, Linkerd.
- Software architecture, data structures, modern design patterns, and network protocols
- Source control experience including branching, merging and rebasing
- Running microservices and container-based workloads in production.

**Core Infrastructure**& Security**
- Use of architectural patterns and anti-patterns for resiliency and geo-availability
- Management, monitoring and operations at-scale, preferably in a cloud environment
- Security and governance with a strong proficiency in defining and modelling security baselines
- Open source technologies and frameworks
- Strong working knowledge of security controls such as encryption, AuthN/AuthZ
- Zero Trust Framework principles
- Experience supporting large and complex geographically distributed enterprise environments with 10000+ users
- OS Internals concepts, load balancing, geo-redundancy, CDN and VPN technologies.

**Data and Analytics**
- Proficient with one or more Cloud Databases such as Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB
- Azure Cosmos DB, database scalability and availability
- Data Governance, logging and lineage

**Other**- Embody our culture and values

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consult