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Presidio, 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 preferred Your future at Presidio Joining Presidio means stepping into a culture of trailblazers - thinkers, builders, and collaborators - who push the boundaries of what's possible. With our expertise AI-driven analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and next-gen infrastructure, we enable businesses to stay ahead in an ever-evolving digital world. Here, your impact is real. Whether you're harnessing the power of Generative AI, architecting resilient digital ecosystems, or driving data-driven transformation, you'll be part of a team that is shaping the future. Ready to innovate? Let's redefine what's next-together. About Presidio Presidio is committed to hiring the most qualified candidates to join our amazing culture. We aim to attract and hire top talent from all backgrounds, including underrepresented and marginalized communities. We encourage women, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans to apply for open roles at Presidio. Diversity of skills and thought is a key component to our business success. At Presidio, speed and quality meet technology and innovation. Presidio is a trusted ally for organizations across industries with a decades-long history of building traditional IT foundations and deep expertise in AI and automation, security, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing. Presidio fills gaps, removes hurdles, optimizes costs, and reduces risk. Presidio's expert technical team develops custom applications, provides managed services, and enables actionable data insights and builds forward-thinking solutions that drive strategic outcomes for clients globally. For more information visit presidio.com Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. Presidio has a strong commitment to the community we serve and our employees. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we strive to have a workforce that includes the community we serve. Presidio is an Equal Opportunity Employer Disability/Vets. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories. The "Know Your Rights" Poster is available here: eeoc.gov Presidio EEO Policy Statement is available here: presidio.com Presidio is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to recruitment@presidio.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Presidio is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor requesting priority referrals of protected veterans for its openings. State Employment Services, please provide priority referrals to. Notice of Massachusetts Candidates: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. Recruitment Agencies, Please Note: Presidio does not accept unsolicited agency resumes/CVs. Do not forward resumes/CVs to our career's email address, Presidio employees or any other means. Presidio is not responsible for any feeds related to unsolicited resumes/CVs.

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Presidio, Where Teamwork and Innovation Shape the Future
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.
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.
Experience in solution design methodologies and technical best practices that drive consistency and quality across the team.
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.
Your future at Presidio
Here, your impact is real. Whether you're harnessing the power of Generative AI, architecting resilient digital ecosystems, or driving data-driven transformation, you'll be part of a team that is shaping the future.
Ready to innovate? Let's redefine what's next-together.

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Active Azure certification is highly preferred

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