Perficient is seeking an Senior Azure Solutions Architect to lead in our growing Azure Practice. An Ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in a hands-on, technical role. Preferably (and in addition), the candidate will have extensive experience in a customer facing role, managing customer and Practice expectations and working within the Microsoft channel ecosystem. This role requires a minimum of 5 years of experience working in a consulting capacity. The candidate will work within a fast-paced team with dynamically changing requirements. The ideal candidate must be a self-starter who can “hit the ground running” and work with minimal direction.  

 Job Overview:

As an Azure Senior Solutions Architect, you will be the subject matter expert in your target focus area and contribute to a variety of cloud engineering teams to deliver end-to-end cloud transformation for our customers, as part of our fast-growing Azure Practice. This challenging role requires significant knowledge and experience across many facets of cloud modernization including Infrastructure, Applications, APIs, Containerization, innovation with Artificial Intelligence, and Modern Data Services.  The ideal candidate possesses should be deeply familiar with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption framework and able to align & lead strategies focusing on the Governance, Security, Monitoring and Cost Management aspects of the Azure ecosystem. We are looking for disciplined consultants with deep technical backgrounds, experience building world-class cloud solutions and strong leadership skills. 

The core responsibility of this role is to provide Azure leadership through practice development, architectural vision and implementation expertise throughout the assessment, proposal, design, implementation and operational phases of  customer engagements. You will work alongside Perficient resources to serve all needs within the Microsoft Azure cloud, heavily leverage Azure native services for migration and modernization and enable open source and third-party solutions on Azure infrastructure. The role often results in the Senior Solutions Architect becoming the trusted, technical face of the engagement; strong leadership and consulting skills are necessary. Successful candidates must be willing to multitask and understand that customer engagements will vary over time and must maintain and evolve skillsets to meet those needs.