Xebia · 17 hours ago
Principal Azure Data Consultant (Pre-Sales)
Xebia is a global digital consulting company that leverages over 20 years of experience to help clients navigate digital transformations. They are looking for a Principal Azure Data Consultant who will lead pre-sales efforts, engage with clients to design and deliver Azure data solutions, and provide technical leadership throughout the implementation process.
Responsibilities
Pre-sales leadership
Work with stakeholders to understand their requirements and limitations
Help our sales team in identifying customer issues
Work with our sales team to produce compelling and cutting-edge solution proposals while scoping and estimating the work for our consulting division. You will be facilitating technical discussions for the sales team in identifying solutions for customer issues as needed throughout multi-phase engagements
Assist in creating a Statement of Work based on customer meetings
Develop and evolve company service offerings. Work with sales team to develop demand-generation materials, and with technical team to develop delivery guidelines and other materials to support standard delivery practices
Technical leadership
Provide recommendations on hiring and training plans for Xebia consultants
Create and lead customer workshops and POCs to validate and discover cloud capabilities
Work with customers to define the scope of POCs and lead workshops to create working software demonstrating cloud capabilities
Provide guidance to other consultants and customer throughout the duration of workshops and POC development
Provide technical architecture for customer engagements
Ensure that technical implementation meets customer requirements during engagements
Provide guidance to consultants to ensure that project outputs follow the overall architecture
Ability to architect large, heterogenous projects, including coordinating with team experts as required
Ability to perform formal architecture reviews of data systems within their core competencies and to coordinate technical and architectural reviews with team experts as required
Hands-on execution with customers and XMS teams
Confidently, clearly, and concisely communicate architectural decisions and reasoning to clients and management, communicating successfully with both technical and non-technical audiences
Qualification
Required
Collaborative and communicative team player who can effectively work independently and with others
Previous experience in a technical leadership role as a Solution Architect or Technical Architect (or similar) is ideal
10+ years of experience with MS-SQL
5+ years of experience with .NET Core C#
5+ years of experience designing Azure-based modern data architecture (Azure SQL, Azure Synapse/Fabric, Power BI)
A strong understanding of data systems architecture, Domain Driven Design, and Integration patterns
Hands on experience with Azure PaaS (3+ years) including AKS, Service Bus, Storage, Cosmos DB, Logic Apps, Azure DevOps, and GitHub
Knowledge of DevOps approaches to the software lifecycle and their impact on solution architecture
Understanding of the pricing model of Azure services and its impact on solution architecture
Strong level of comfort speaking and presenting to all levels of an organization, including the C-suite
Additional understanding of scaling models for services on Azure
Demonstrable experience of Azure Deployments within the last 2+ years for production workloads
Additional capabilities writing clear and concise technical documentation
Deep passion for learning new Azure services, features, integrations, and enhancements and for sharing that with our internal staff and the greater community. You will be a thought leader sharing your expertise via blogs, social media, conference presentation, and other community participation
Expert understanding and hands-on experience designing, deploying, and monitoring Azure-based solutions that support high availability and disaster recovery
Experience designing and implementing enterprise application design patterns and architectures
Comfortable acting in the role of architectural lead with customers, making presentations, and leading white-boarding sessions
Company
Xebia
Xebia is specialist op het gebied van Agile, Test Automation, Continuous Delivery, Architecture en Modern Software Development
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