Microsoft Solution Architect

**Job Requirements
**Quest Global is an organization at the forefront of innovation and one of the world's fastest growing engineering services firms with deep domain knowledge and recognized expertise in the top OEMs across seven industries. We are a twenty-five-year-old company on a journey to becoming a centenary one, driven by aspiration, hunger and humility.

We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible, possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers.

As a team of remarkably diverse engineers, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you want to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we're eager to hear from you.

The achievers and courageous challenge-crushers we seek, have the following characteristics and skills:
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The Solution Architect implements solutions for internal and/or external clients. He/She applies highly developed specialist knowledge and skills to analyse the customer requirements and formulate a solution by working with different practice / guilds to deliver the solution to customer. He/she adopts an analytical approach in developing innovative solutions to meet business requirements.Â

He / she collaborates with other departments on solutions implementations and align solution architecture to corporate vision / architecture.Â

The Solution Architect has good knowledge of technology landscape in the organisation and industry. He/she identifies suitable technology for implementation and guides the team through to implementation and benefit realisation.Â

The Solution Architect is an effective team player who manages stakeholders, deliverables and resources in a structured manner. He/she adopts an analytical and strategic approach in developing and communicating solutions that meet project objectives and stakeholder needs.Â

Key AccountabilitiesÂ
- Articulate solution approach to both business & IT stakeholders across UK, India and Singapore and at low/mid/senior levels, from concept phase through build and deployment to support phase, gain their confidence and concurrenceÂ
- Work under time pressure in a phased delivery programme Â
- Operate simultaneously in waterfall, agile and DevOps methodologies as applied to different workstreams in a programmeÂ
- Application and development of standards and policies '“ both technical and methodology.Â
- Comfortable with demanding customer interaction and leading technical discussions with internal and external stakeholdersÂ
- Interface with software / technology vendors to support project managers in technology selectionÂ
- Delivered multiple high quality end to end solution designs, from concept to deployment, for green field and brown field solutions in data intensive and visualization solution landscapeÂ
- Hands-on experience with Â
- Microsoft and Open source web Application development frameworks, tools, technologies in different layers of architectureÂ
- DevOps methodology and implementation in Microsoft AzureÂ
- Good understanding of Â
- standard architecture frameworks and practices such as TOGAFÂ
- modelling tools and languages such as UML and BPMNÂ
- cloud & on-premises infrastructure and data security standards and implementationÂ
- solution deployment to Microsoft and Linux operating systemsÂ
- ITIL or other support frameworksÂ
- Project management frameworks such as Prince2 / PMPÂ Â