Power Platform Architect
at HSO
Remote, Scotland, United Kingdom -
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Immediate | 22 Dec, 2024 | Not Specified | 24 Sep, 2024 | N/A | Good communication skills | No | No |
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JOB PURPOSE
As the Cloud Solution Architect you will lead all engagements with our customers from presales to discovery, designing and implementation of wider cloud services with a focus on Power platform solutions. This means having overall ownership of the solution, ensuring that the delivered solutions are implemented in a cost-effective, high quality and controlled manner that satisfies customers’ technical and business requirements. Your responsibilities will involve leading customer workshops, documenting requirements, defining deliverables, and estimating projects with the assistance of the delivery team.
The role is key in designing new go-to-market propositions working with sales teams to ensure correct customer alignment, and with the AP Delivery Lead to ensure the team has the necessary skills and expertise to implement the solution.
The role works closely with the Cloud Strategist and other Cloud Solution Architects to ensure that AP solutions are aligned with the overall cloud strategy for that customer.
This role is part of the small senior leadership team for the AP team and will help guide the delivery team to develop the skills required to be the best Power Platform partner in the market.
Reports to: Application Platform Practice Lead
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Power Platform Solution Architect, you will:
- Be a technical generalist in your area of expertise serving as the technical leader in client-facing engagements.
- Take responsibility for the delivery of technical capabilities to clients at the project level across multiple deliverables, solutions, or workstreams.
- Serve as the most or one of the most senior technical consultants to one or several clients at any given time, facilitating discovery and delivering in-depth technical expertise with the client or prospect, and leading organizations through Microsoft cloud adoption best practices.
- Facilitate client-facing consulting services such as cloud assessments, workshops, and co-design sessions
Own the Cloud Adoption Platform (Power Platform, Azure, or Microsoft 365) portion of joint engagements across other HSO service lines (e.g., Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement, Unified Operations, Data and Analytics, etc.)
- Architect solutions across a range of Microsoft cloud technologies—including, with assistance, those that are not your core expertise—and provide design guidance to Lead, Senior, and other more junior consultants.
- Provide the project teams with proper guidelines for development standards, execution plans, disaster recovery, performance optimization and integrations.
- Ensure project team understands the technical architecture of the project and adheres to proper development and execution of the plan (code review, code QA, security review, deployment plan review, integration review)
- Ensure a formal process is in place for testing and issues resolution, specifically around the technical architecture and integration points of the implementation
- Take responsibility for risk assessment, solution presentation, AS-IS & TO BE processes, sizing and topology finalization, defining solution quality, defining technical quality criteria, etc.
- Further develop and maintain your own technical expertise, share that expertise with your colleagues as a mentor or producer of best practices and intellectual property, provide technical and thought leadership in chosen technical areas, and create knowledge capital that can be leveraged to accelerate project delivery, improve quality and to secure new engagements
- Provide technical pre-sales support to HSO sellers and their clients when needed (e.g. technical presentations to clients, development and presentation of demos, preparation of design and proposal documentation, etc.); note this is not the primary job function, and pre-sales assignments will be made based on technical expertise required by the pursuit
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)
Information Technology/IT
IT Software - Other
Information Technology
Graduate
Proficient
1
Remote, United Kingdom