Sr. Solutions Architect – Microsoft Technologies

Job Summary:

The client’s mission is to deliver technological solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. The organization is responsible for the design and planning new solutions and projects requested by the client for enterprise Workplace services, Messaging and Collaboration.

Responsibilities:

· The Sr. Solution Architect will closely work with the client on end-to-end solution architecture, finalize design requirements, complete the technical solution with details on work breakdown structure, pricing and planning.

· Work with the project manager, project technical resources, and business stakeholders, to ensure that requirements are understood, dependencies are defined, and the solution is documented and tested.

· Will be the technical lead for end-to-end project solution, implementation and transition to the steady state operations.

· Be part of the Workplace services operations team for steady state operations and escalations.

Qualifications and Skills:

· BS or BA degree in Information Technology with 10+ years of progressive experience in IT.

· 7+ years of demonstrated experience implementing and integrating complex enterprise-level Messaging and Email, endpoint management, with at least 50,000 users.

· 5+ years creating code-based solutions using PowerShell, or other similar languages used for automation using JSON, XML, and other similar standard formats.

· 5+ years’ experience as technical lead in project management of large IT organizations.

· Deep technical and operational understanding of the entire Microsoft 365 productivity ecosystem - designing, administering, securing, and optimizing the M365 environment for large enterprises.

· Expert in Microsoft Entra ID – hybrid integration with on-premises Active Directory, using MS Entra Connect.

· Messaging and Collaboration: on-premises Exchange 2019 with M365 Hybrid co-existence.

· Knowledge of OpenText RightFax enterprise fax server platform and MS Groups.

· Design, deploy, secure, and maintain enterprise Windows Active Directory: Forest with multiple domains, trust relationships, Group policy management, Identity and Access Management, integration with cloud services like Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft 365.

· Develop scripts, utilities, and applications to aid in automation and steady state operations.

· Advanced Microsoft certifications.

· Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.

· Strong customer skills, technical analysis and engineering skills.

· Ability to interact effectively at all levels of the organization, be an effective team member and provide coordination across matrixed virtual teams and organizations.