Cloud Architect

Responsibilities

• Work with business stakeholders, vendors, and engineering teams to implement a technical architecture, governance framework, and best practices to develop efficient solutions, product capabilities and repeatable processes.
• Act as primary platform architect and technical lead for Dynamics 365 and M365 Power Platform suite (Power Pages, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents)
• Work on highly complex projects and turnkey solutions that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains, including Azure IaaS, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure DevOps, Okta Identity management, azure storage accounts and Azure app registrations.
• Analyze 3rd-party products to document overall solution and system architectures, and identity/permissions security models.
• Contribute to the Product features roadmaps and to DSS's Power Platform Community of Practice (CoP models)
• Ensure high-quality platform deliverables in accordance with the platform roadmap and capabilities
• Define delivery documentation including best practices, design, build and operations guides, as well as the management processes and procedures
• Lead efforts in defining, documenting and estimating the following for enterprise applications.
• Design/Implement Enterprise Security/technology Patterns
• Align architecture strategy with business goals.
• Develop and communicate architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Promote the governance framework, outcomes, and results to the organization and senior leadership.
• Review and/or analyze and develop architectural requirements as needed for the organization.
• Ensure the conceptual completeness of the technical solutions.
• Review existing business processes and establishes metrics to improve business processes, as well as support of all architectural disciplines under their direction.
• Tackle complex and ambiguous problems that span numerous systems and organizations
• Collaborate with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements.
• Resolve conflict productively across teams

Requirements

• 5+ years in-depth knowledge and experience with Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, Power BI, Power Pages, Power Apps, and Power Automate.
• 10+ years' experience with cloud and hybrid, on-premises infrastructures, architecture designs, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• 15+ years of experience in technology industry and IT consulting services.
• Experience managing end-to-end product deployment from concept, development, and successful launch.
• Experience leading programs with full customer journey impact covering program planning, risk assessment, cost, and delivery.
• Proven Experience in managing delivery of services / products related to M365 and MS technology in a GCC environment
• Proven ability to create product roadmap, best practices, development and deployment standards for M365 and its products
• Demonstrated communication and influencing skills at all levels of the organization and across technical and non-technical teams
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering & Process Automation