Senior Specialist - Architecture

Leads meetings with clients to understand business needs Use business industry and technology strategies to map customer requirements to the adoption and optimization of Microsoft technology solutions Involves other members of the Microsoft team appropriately to understand and define customer requirements

Participates in project planning and develops project documents identifying risks and dependencies Communicates the business value of planned solutions to the customer Identifies technical and business risks in programs and proposes mitigations and contingency strategiesHelps project managers and architects prepare for steering committee meetings for example developing artifacts architecture diagrams and implementation plans or timelines

Manages your agenda and directs communication with project leaders on the client side and with Consultants other Architects and Project ManagersGenerates and delivers Work Breakdown Structure WBS

Implements solutions and will provide oversight and leadership on workflows to and from all collaborators within the project while adhering to Microsoft Services delivery processes

Create estimations of effort to design and implement Data solutions and validate estimations made by Partners

Aligns solution development and implementation strategies with Microsoft reference architectures for Cloud solutions and validated with the Project Architect also using reference frameworks methodologies patterns and practices for safe and quality development in code and continuous improvement

Proactively manages escalations analyzes situations and coordinates appropriate resources to resolve issues by following delivery practices considering cost implications and engaging in discussions with all parties involved in the project both internal and external eg Delivery to Operation Technical Support project manager solutions architects Consultants product group etc

Proactively manages relationships with clients and all project collaborators at the executive level to identify and contribute to improving satisfaction conditions and reduce or eliminate dissatisfaction conditions determine the root cause and establish recovery actions to improve the experience Work with every Microsoft team to ensure the One Microsoft approach

Share lessons learned with work groups and with the entire community of architects and consultants

RequiredMinimum Qualifications for Architect Data

5 years of experience in leading projects implementing technological solutions in a business environment

Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering Finance Business or related field AND 3 years of leadership experience in the following functional areas

Database administration preferably with SQL databases like PostgreSQL SQL Server Azure SQL performance tuning troubleshooting high availabilitydisaster recovery security

Database development preferably with PostgreSQL SQL Server Azure SQL design and build database solutions tablesstored proceduresformsqueriesetc

Business Intelligence Combines knowledge of Azure Data Factory Azure Analysis Services and Power BI technologies with a deep understanding of data structuredata models to design develop and tune BI solutions and reports

Advanced Analytics Design and build solutions using technologies such as Azure Data Factory Azure Data Lake Store Azure HD Insights Hadoop Hive Hadoop Map Reduce Hadoop Clusters and Azure Synapse

Implementation of Big Data solutions using open source and nonSQL technologies such as Databricks Spark Spark Streaming Kafka Storm Zeppelin Scala software development or PySpark

Experience in NoSQL databases such as Cosmos DB MongoDB CassandraDB or similar technologies

Build data ingestion and transformation infrastructure o Management creation and consumption of static and streaming data for use with batch and online inference o Work with transactional data and queues

Software development Desirable o Strong co