The Azure Cloud Solutions Architect is a customer-facing pre-sales technical leader who identifies and qualifies Azure workload opportunities, designs differentiated NetApp and Microsoft solutions, and removes technical barriers to customer adoption.
Responsibilities
Own technical discovery, architecture, validation planning, technical close, and the quality of customer handovers.
Qualify customer opportunities, business and technical requirements, and solution fit for NetApp cloud offerings.
Design end-to-end Azure solutions that may include NetApp software, cloud services, Microsoft Azure services, and Professional Services.
Deliver discovery sessions, architecture workshops, technical demonstrations, immersion days, and customer or partner enablement.
Design and execute proofs of concept and technical blueprints that validate solution fit in the customer environment.
Delivers the development of strategic direction and leadership in the development of enterprise-wide solution architecture.
Executes design, improvements, and/or execution of architecture from design through completion of products and/or features (e.g., drives solutions performance, quality, etc.).
Guides the definition of solution/system architecture and design across multiple products or systems.
Ensures the translation of requirements into effective solution architecture and design across products or systems.
Participates in cross-architecture reviews across solution sets and ensures upstream and downstream integration requirements.
Lead the design and governance of enterprise-wide security architecture across multi‑cloud environments, modern infrastructure, and business applications.
Responsibilities
Define security vision, reference models, design patterns, and strategic roadmaps
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Cyber Security Architects
Establish and maintain the Enterprise Cyber Security Architecture framework
Serve as key representative in Architecture Review Board
Align security architecture strategy with business transformation and compliance