Azure Solution Architect

Overview

Synoptek

We think globally, act locally. As a Managed Services Provider, Synoptek provides world-class strategic IT leadership and hyper-efficient IT operational support, enabling our global client-base to grow and transform their businesses. We are excited to have experienced continuous growth and in keeping with that momentum we are seeking to add talent to our team. When you partner with Synoptek, you engage with an ever-growing, ever-evolving IT organization that provides a high-caliber team, results growth, and clarity.

Responsibilities

Azure Solution Architect

This is an amazing opportunity to work within one of the fastest growing Managed Services Providers. We are a company with a heart and soul dedicated to the ongoing success and growth of our employees and continued business success of the customers we support. We foster a fun and connected environment with employee benefits extending beyond general compensation and into company sponsored events and an invested culture of learning.

The Azure Solution Architect is responsible for scoping, planning, delivering, and documenting high quality projects to improve and mature the IT capability of our clients.

Additionally, this role will consistently be working with a dynamic team of individuals to understand and recommend technology infrastructure solutions to add, replace, or improve a client's technology footprint.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Effectively architect and lead Azure-focused projects, managing scope, schedule, and budget with the objective of delivering quality work products

• Work on understanding customer business drivers, cloud readiness assessments, cloud migrations and driving their cloud adoption

• Work with the Cloud team and customer to help develop a comprehensive migration plan, lowering risk and cost while accelerating adoption

• Be able to think through various technology solutions options as it relates to complex business problems and provide recommendations to team lead and/or client

• Participate in client discovery meetings, and be able to clearly articulate scope, approach, and level of effort for the proposal

• Troubleshoot and debug basic cloud system and network issues

• Coach and mentor team members

• Work as a senior consultant with our clients nationwide in an in-person or remote capacity, travel is project based but typically light

• Identify ways to improve our clients' systems and infrastructure by migrating to Azure IaaS or PaaS

• This job description is not designed to be a comprehensive list of the duties and responsibilities required of the employee in this position, as duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field from an accredited college or university

• Azure Solutions Architect Associate

Experience

• Customarily has at least 8 years of technical experience

• Customarily has at least 8 years of position specific experience

• Customarily has at least 5 years of client facing project management experience

• Customarily has at least 2 years of leadership or mentorship experience

Skills/Attributes

• Synoptek core DNA behaviors:

• Clarity: Possesses excellent communication skills, makes a concentrated effort to speak the customers language. Ability to field questions with concise, well-constructed responses

• OwnIT: Shows integrity, innovation, and accountability in completing daily assignments

• Results: Solutions focused and driven to resolve conflict quickly and precisely. Proactively looks for opportunities to contribute to the company's business goals

• Growth: Willing to learn and ask questions. Constantly looking for new ways to improve yourself. Ability to adapt and grow in a fast-paced environment

• Team: Embraces both customers and colleagues as team members. Ability to be flexible, respectful, engaged and collaborative

• Working knowledge of leading application and integration architecture frameworks

• Ability to plan and execute projects with minimal oversight

• Ability to be flexible in your work location as consultative project work is delivered best in-person or remotely from a Synoptek location

Working Conditions

We live by the motto 'work hard, play hard' and strive to support our employees in both their professional and personal goals. We believe that by hiring the right people, leading process improvement, and leveraging technology, we achieve superior results.

Work is performed primarily in an office or remote environment. The final location is subject to business needs. May be subject to time constraints and tight deadlines. May require occasional travel.

Salary Range

The following information is required by the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act and applies only to individuals working in the state of Colorado. The anticipated starting pay range for Denver, Colorado applicants for this role is $150,316 -$181,164 with a median of $165,369. Actual compensation is impacted by a number of factors including, but not limited to, skill set, level of experience, specific work locations and any potential licenses and certifications required for that role.

The following information is required by the California Equal Pay Transparency Act and applies only to individuals working in the state of California. The anticipated starting pay range for Irvine, CA applicants for this role is $159,490 - $192,221 with a median of $175,462. Actual compensation is impacted by a number of factors including, but not limited to, skill set, level of experience, specific work locations and any potential licenses and certifications required for that role.

EEO Statement

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. It is our intention that all qualified applicants are given equal opportunity and that employment decisions be based on job-related factors.