Senior Azure Solution Architect

Senior Azure Solution Architect
The opportunity

We are looking for a Technical/Solution Architect within the US Government and Public Sector Technology Hub. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering solution designs and architectures for key initiatives hosted in primarily in a cloud hosted government platform, and considering re-use, scalability, and reliability in alignment with EY’s mission and strategy.

You will holistically evaluate the architecture and apply technical expertise to understand the business impact of a technical component, recommending and implementing new solutions, ways of working and technologies to meet business requirements. You will develop relationships across the business and EY Technology to understand requirements, apply technical knowledge of solution and technical architecture to solve business problems and work closely with other architecture and development teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

In this role you will also create reliable solution plans that include cost estimates and optimized delivery approaches by working with the business, multi-disciplinary teams including our peers in Technical Solution Management and Product Costing.

As a Solution Architect, your key responsibilities are:

- Providing Technical leadership & subject matter expertise to client engagements focusing on complex & innovative products and reusable assets within the context of Azure/Azure Gov Platform services.

- Assisting with developing High-Level technical overviews, prior to kicking off a project as part of a product life cycle, intended to support business investment decisions which means they must hold the appropriate balance between costs, risks and quality of the product

- Creating detailed Infrastructure and Engineering designs that account for the end-to-end technical solution of a system, in line with the business strategy and objectives and within the context of EY’s technology environment and Azure/Azure Gov Platform services.

- Ensuring relevant technical strategies, policies, standards, and practices are applied correctly across Technology programs/projects and products

- Working with the vendors to assess vendor products, understand vendor’s delivery models and assist in implementing them

- Ability to work across multiple projects with varied stakeholders. Setting architectural direction, you’ll build consensus, mediate conflicts providing technical leadership and advisory services to the business. Anticipating needs and potential objections and helping to create an environment which solicits positive contributions from all participants: Solution and Technical Architects, engineering teams, product manager, project managers, product analysts, test and project teams, Information Security and Operations

- Demonstrating excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills that are required to operate as a leading member of global, distributed teams that deliver quality services and solutions

- Guiding others in resolving complex issues in solution architecture and solves complex, escalated aspects of a project

- Monitoring the progress and the quality of the project and reviews and develops due diligence to confirm the developed solution complies with architectural design

Skills and attributes for success

To qualify for the role, you must have

- Advanced understanding of Azure/Azure Gov (Gateways, Firewalls, Containers, ADO, etc.) architecture.

- Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions for Microsoft-centric solutions based on industry standards using (Azure) IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS capabilities.

- Experience with any claims-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, JIT, and/or RBAC / Ping etc.

- Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Azure DevOps, Ansible, Puppet, Octopus, Chef, Salt, etc.

- Experience with multi-geography, multi-tier service design and management

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