Consulting Architect – Azure

Role Overview

• Serve as a trusted advisor to customers navigating complex cloud strategies, working directly with executive and C-level stakeholders to align Azure adoption with business outcomes
• Facilitate and lead collaboration with senior and C-level stakeholder groups, using tailored approaches to drive both strategic and detail-oriented conversations across enterprise architecture
• Lead consulting and advisory engagements that assess the impact of business strategy on the architecture landscape—including organization, infrastructure, applications, and data—and align Azure cloud strategy with business outcomes
• Lead executive discovery workshops to understand business drivers and desired outcomes, then translate findings into phased transformation roadmaps that outline the organizational, technical, and process impacts at each stage
• Develop investment cases, Total Cost of Ownership models, and business-outcome-aligned recommendations for Azure initiatives
• Define consulting and advisory engagements in a pre-sales capacity, including scoping, technical approach, work breakdown structures, and staffing models
• Deliver the engagements you help define, ensuring continuity from proposal through execution and measurable outcomes
• Lead the design of enterprise architecture strategies, operating models, and roadmaps, and produce executive-quality deliverables—strategy decks, architecture recommendations, and statements of work
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Delivery and Sales teams to shape go-to-market strategies and refine the consulting practice

Requirements

• Required Certification: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
• 8+ years of diverse solutions architecture experience with a minimum of 3 years of relevant public cloud experience
• Experience developing and presenting cloud strategy, business cases, and transformation roadmaps to executive and C-level audiences
• Sufficient technical depth across Azure infrastructure, networking, identity, security, and application modernization to credibly translate between executive stakeholders and engineering teams
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture disciplines including business architecture, IT governance, data and information architecture, and integration architecture
• A BA/BS degree with 8 years of relevant experience, or a MS degree with 6 years of relevant experience, or a Ph.D. with 3 years of experience, or 12 years of overall relevant experience without a college degree
• Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
• High level of comfort communicating effectively across internal and customer-facing organizations.

Tech Stack

• Azure
• Cloud

Benefits

• Employees have the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations
• Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members
• Additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave
• Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• Retirement planning (401(k))