Sr. Solution Architect (Azure)

DescriptionPresidio, Where Teamwork and Innovation Shape the Future At Presidio, we're at the forefront of a global technology revolution, transforming industries through cutting-edge digital solutions and next-generation AI. We empower businesses - and their internal customers - to achieve more through innovation, automation, and intelligent insights.The Role We are 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. Key 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. Qualifications: * 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.Required Technical Skills: * 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. * Active Azure certification is highly preferredYour future at Presidio Joining Presidio means stepping into a culture of trailblazers - thinkers, builders, and co