M365 Architect

Job Description:

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or Business Related field or equivalent work experience.
• 10 + years of IT and business/industry work experience.
• 7 + years of architecture and strategy experience in technology areas in the following areas: Global Data Center, compute, storage, database.
• 3 + years of experience in developing Cloud hosting services and supporting management tools and methods.
• 5 + years influencing senior level management and key stakeholders.
• 1 + year Basic Project Management.
• 1 + year of financial analysis experience (i.e. an understanding of basic financial analysis – application costs, budgets, etc).
• 1 + year Technical Architecture relevant experience.
• Strong Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint skills.
• Proven record of interacting with multiple business units and functional teams; globally.
• Experience leading complex projects; ability to drive for results.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills and an ability to communicate technical and business information effectively to both technical and non-technical people.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure technologies and business applications, and their relationships.
• Working knowledge of Software Defined Datacenter and converged technologies.
• Established skills in identifying and developing strategies to address change management issues.
• Strong skills in influencing others with the ability to facilitate cross-functional teams.
• Experience in managing third party vendors in a global, managed services environment.
• Ability to accomplish results through others (lower level managers, professional employees, matrix organization, managed service provider).
• Strong conceptual strength, strategic thinking, problem solving, technical, and analytical skills.
• Exceptional leadership and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
• Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations.
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in technical or business discipline.
• Experience with business case development.
• Knowledge of all components of enterprise architecture.
• Industry certification (Examples include ITIL, APICS, six sigmas, TOGAF etc).
• Solid knowledge and understanding of emerging cloud computing models, their application and value proposition within a large, global organization.

Skills:

• Architecture management.
• technical writing.
• interpersonal and leadership skills.
• TOGAF.
• Project Management.
• Portfolio and ITIL Process knowledge.
• Cloud Computing.
• Azure design.
• Big Data.
• capacity planning.
• Data Center migration and consolidations.
• Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP).
• Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA).
• Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT).
• TOGAF 9.1 Level 1 & Level 2.

Desired Skills and Experience

MICROSOFT365 ARCHITECT