Sr. Solution Architect (Azure)

Presidio • ,

3h

About The Position

Presidio is seeking an Sr. Solution Architect to expand our Solutions Architecture team, working within an industry-specific vertical to drive technical pre-sales excellence and customer success. This role blends hands-on solution architecture with people management, focusing on enhancing team expertise, standardizing best practices, and delivering high-quality, technical solutions.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevent experience
• 5+ years of experience in solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, delivery, or similar customer-facing technical roles.
• 3+ years of experience in delivery and pre-sales of consulting and advisory services for strategic solutions such as IT strategy, Application Placement, and Cloud Governance
• Deep Azure expertise across core services with strong working knowledge of container orchestration, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and Azure Well-Architected principles.
• Exceptional communication and executive presence — able to command the room with both technical architects and C-suite stakeholders, translating complex Azure solutions into compelling business value narratives.
• Strong cloud migration and modernization background — including experience architecting lift-and-shift, re-platform, and re-architect, platform modernization solutions across diverse enterprise environments and industries.
• Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, and modern application architectures — including microservices, serverless, and event-driven patterns on Azure — enabling credible, forward-looking solution conversations with clients.
• Experience in solution design methodologies and technical best practices that drive consistency and quality across the team.
• Expert-level knowledge of Azure core services.
• Proficiency in Azure Well-Architected Framework across all five pillars.
• Hands-on experience designing multi-account, multi-region Azure architectures for enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience architecting cloud migration strategies including lift-and-shift, re-platform, and re-architect approaches.
• Familiarity with Azure or third-party migration tooling.
• Experience building Azure cost calculations and building cost models for client estimates and proposals.

Nice To Haves

• Active Azure certification is highly preferred

Responsibilities

• Develop client-facing deliverables — including high-level solution summaries, proposals, staffing models, Statements of Work (SOWs), and responses to RFPs/RFIs — translating complex cloud architectures into clear, commercially sound engagements.
• Lead the scoping of workshops, assess, mobilize, and execution of migrating on-premises applications and legacy data centers to Azure.
• Design robust cloud security, identity, and access management (IAM) strategies, ensuring adherence to industry regulatory and compliance standards.
• Drive infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools to build automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Act as a subject matter expert and managing the sales cycle from requirements gathering to handoff to delivery.
• Own the proposal approval lifecycle — coordinating cross-functional review cycles, managing internal stakeholder sign-off, and ensuring all client-facing deliverables meet Presidio's quality and standards.
• Develop and implement standardized methodologies for solution design, deployment, and optimization, incorporating industry-specific frameworks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed