Solutions Architect

The Solutions Architect is a senior technical and consultative member of the Professional Services team responsible for translating client business needs into secure, scalable, supportable, and cost-effective technology solutions.

The Solutions Architect leads technical discovery, defines architecture and implementation strategies, and develops clear, accurate scopes of work for clients’ technology needs. The Solutions Architect owns solution design quality and delivery readiness, while engineering owns implementation.

In partnership with Account Management, vCIOs, engineering, project management, procurement, vendors, and client stakeholders, the Solutions Architect guides opportunities from initial discovery and pre-sales consultation through solution approval and delivery handoff.

The position requires sound technical judgment, strong business acumen, disciplined documentation, and the ability to communicate complex recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Key Duties & Responsibilities Lead technical discovery and current-state assessments to understand client business objectives, operational requirements, existing environments, technical debt, dependencies, constraints, risks, and future-state goals.

Translate business and technical requirements into secure, scalable, supportable, and cost-effective solution architectures across Microsoft cloud services, infrastructure, networking, identity, cybersecurity, business continuity, and related managed services.

Incorporate security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, data protection, monitoring, scalability, licensing, supportability, and technology lifecycle requirements into solution designs.

Develop accurate and detailed Statements of Work, solution diagrams, bills of materials, implementation approaches, effort estimates, assumptions, dependencies, exclusions, deliverables, timelines, and acceptance criteria. Partner with Account Management and vCIO teams during pre-sales activities, c