Senior Solution Architect

Job Description

Job Summary:

The client’s mission is to deliver technological solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. The organization is responsible for the design and planning new solutions and projects requested by the client for enterprise Workplace services, Messaging and Collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• The Sr. Solution Architect will closely work with the client on end-to-end solution architecture, finalize design requirements, complete the technical solution with details on work breakdown structure, pricing and planning.


• Work with the project manager, project technical resources, and business stakeholders, to ensure that requirements are understood, dependencies are defined, and the solution is documented and tested.


• Will be the technical lead for end-to-end project solution, implementation and transition to the steady state operations.


• Be part of the Workplace services operations team for steady state operations and escalations.

Qualifications and Skills:

• BS or BA degree in Information Technology with 10+ years of progressive experience in IT.


• 7+ years of demonstrated experience implementing and integrating complex enterprise-level Messaging and Email, endpoint management, with at least 50,000 users.


• 5+ years creating code-based solutions using PowerShell, or other similar languages used for automation using JSON, XML, and other similar standard formats.


• 5+ years’ experience as technical lead in project management of large IT organizations.


• Deep technical and operational understanding of the entire Microsoft 365 productivity ecosystem - designing, administering, securing, and optimizing the M365 environment for large enterprises.


• Expert in Microsoft Entra ID – hybrid integration with on-premises Active Directory, using MS Entra Connect.


• Messaging and Collaboration: on-premises Exchange 2019 with M365 Hybrid co-existence.


• Knowledge of OpenText RightFax enterprise fax server platform and MS Groups.


• Design, deploy, secure, and maintain enterprise Windows Active Directory: Forest with multiple domains, trust relationships, Group policy management, Identity and Access Management, integration with cloud services like Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft 365.


• Develop scripts, utilities, and applications to aid in automation and steady state operations.


• Advanced Microsoft certifications.


• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.


• Strong customer skills, technical analysis and engineering skills.


• Ability to interact effectively at all levels of the organization, be an effective team member and provide coordination across matrixed virtual teams and organizations.

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