This is a direct placement opportunity with one of our global customers in Farmington Hills, MI.
This is a hybrid postion.
Salary: $120,000 - $150,000
As a Solutions Architect you will provide best-fit architectural solutions for one or more projects; you will assist in defining scope and sizing of work; and anchor Proof of Concept developments focused on Software Application development/legacy app modernization. You will work with clients to architect Microsoft solutions including Data, ML, IoT & AI, Customer Insights to address their business challenges.
You will collaborate with some of the best talent in the industry to create and implement innovative high quality solutions, participate in Sales and various pursuits focused on our clients' business needs.
You will also contribute in a variety of roles in thought leadership, mentorship, systems analysis, architecture, design, configuration, testing, debugging, and documentation. You will challenge your leading-edge solutions, consultative and business skills through the diversity of work in multiple industry domains. This role is considered part of the Business Unit Senior Leadership team and may mentor junior architects and other delivery team members.
Responsibilities
- Leads and/or participates in the project team to develop optimal solutions for client business challenges. Guides the client through design, architecture, estimate, and delivery. Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements
- Provide architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for one or more technology domains.
- Helps win new business by working cross-functionally with sales and delivery to develop client proposals and presentations around process and solution options, clearly explaining technical concepts for shared understanding to facilitate decision-making.
- Delivers strategic thought leadership by participating in multiple client engagements simultaneously in both pre-sales and delivery capacities.
- Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles, usability design standards, product-specific guidelines, etc.
- Proactively provide guidance on new technologies, methodologies, standards and leading practices
- Guidance of engineering staff and reviews of projects during development phase
- Identify, communicate and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Decisions throughout development lifecycle
Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:
- Considers the art of the possible, compares various architectural options based on feasibility and impact, and proposes actionable plans
- Demonstrates strong analytical and technical problem-solving skills
- Ability to analyze and operate at various levels of abstraction
- Ability to balance what is strategically right with what is practically realistic
