Principal Architect, Azure Cloud

Job Description: • Collaborates with sales and delivery to develop client proposals around process and solution options, create roadmaps, and clearly explain technical concepts for shared understanding to facilitate decision-making • Leads technical and non-technical executive- or sponsor-level client stakeholders on complex technical concepts or design implications • Leads large-scale, complex technical requirements elicitation, design, and scoping discussions, internally and/or with existing and potential clients • Decomposes large-scale requirements/user stories into tasks, and accurately estimates the effort for themselves or others to complete those tasks • Professionally delegates technical tasks to other team members for multi-workstream projects of large scale and high complexity • Demonstrates a consistent capability for effective project leadership on a variety of projects and project types, including multi-workstream large-scale complex projects with global teams • Identifies problems independently and demonstrates proactive ownership of their solution, vets and evaluates others’ proposed solutions, and delegates ownership to others where appropriate • Proactively and professionally raises and articulates risks with the PM, project delivery team, and internal leadership • Productively collaborates with the project team and internal leadership on potential solutions and mitigation approaches, and participates in the related client communication at the sponsor level • Demonstrates a proven, repeatable track record of successful large-scale project delivery • Demonstrates an ability to monitor other consultants’ completion of tasks, to help other consultants eliminate or work around impediments, and to identify additional work for others Requirements: • 5+ years of experience with large-scale delivery, and is able to recommend whether an Agile, traditional/waterfall, or hybrid approach is most suitable for a project • 5+ years’ experience leading consulting projects for large clients for Landing Zones & Governance, Identity & Access (Microsoft Entra), Compliance & Risk and Security Architecture • 5+ years’ experience leading consulting projects for large clients with six or more of the following tools and technologies: Azure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation, Azure Compliance, Azure Governance, Azure Landing Zone Design, Azure Networking, Azure Security, Azure Virtual Machine resources, Azure Storage resources, Azure AKS/Kubernetes, Entra Build, Entra Manage • Four or more Microsoft Azure Infrastructure & Operations, DevOps Automation, Networking, and/or Security certifications. AZ104 and AZ305 are must-haves • Demonstrated project leadership on multi-workstream large-scale complex projects with global teams • Ability to decompose large-scale requirements/user stories into tasks and accurately estimate effort • Experience delegating technical tasks and monitoring other consultants' completion of tasks Benefits: • #LI-REMOTEUS • TTEC is a proud equal opportunity employer where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability Apply tot his job