Azure Solution Architect (in person)

SEP has an immediate opening for an experienced Azure solution architect. This position gets involved in our early discussions with clients looking to understand what solutions may be appropriate to the problems they've asked us to solve, provides guidance to our teams during development, and reviews existing architectures for improvement. This is a client-facing consulting role responsible for leading technical discovery and solution discussions with our clients working with a wide variety of client stakeholders in IT, engineering, and marketing, as well as our client’s executive leaders. What we have to offer Clients in a variety of domains with challenging problems to solve Flexible, reasonable work schedules Extensive opportunities to learn and develop yourself A community of friendly, talented, and effective peers Gorgeous facilities What you'll be doing Consult on and lead architectural activities on new and existing software systems Support sales meetings with your architectural expertise Quickly build trust with our clients Develop architectural prototypes to validate candidate solutions Occasional travel for meetings with clients Mentor software engineers both within and external to your team Work on projects in a wide variety of domains: life science, medical, aerospace, finance, heavy machinery (did we mention we have a lot of variety!?) Build and del [... source excerpt omitted ...] tanding and vision of the client’s needs Guide team members towards effective solutions during all stages of the project Develop, present, and defend solution recommendations to client technical and business stakeholders Maintain project momentum through timely communication and problem solving with all stakeholders Keep up to date in your knowledge of Azure platform tools as new tools are released and existing tools are revised Deepen engineering expertise and technical capacity of team members through constructive feedback Help your teams, clients, and SEP constantly get better Key attributes for applicants A passion for great products, software development, and learn [... source excerpt omitted ...] adth and depth of technical knowledge, and eagerness to share that knowledge Great team skills Excellent problem solving skills Excellent communication skills Interacting with clients in a technical role during sales discussions 5+ years professional experience with Azure 5+ years professional experience with system architecture 10+ years professional experience with mainstream development technologies Must be legally authorized to work in the United States Must not require visa sponsorship or have work authorization based on OPT or CPT Must be able to work from our office in Westfield, IN Preferred additional experience Guiding strategies for determining integratio