Cloud Solution Architect

**The Role**:
Our clients are looking for our expertise to help them build modern data and analytics solutions on Microsoft Azure. We work closely with clients to understand their IT infrastructure, data estate, business objectives, and how modern Azure solutions can help them achieve those objectives. We support customers across North America and beyond, Mid-Market and Enterprise segments, Commercial and Public Sector, and across industries. Azure Consulting Services represents a fast-growing line of services for Inviso, and we are looking for individuals with Azure architecture and migration expertise to assist our clients.

The Cloud Solution Architect (Data & Analytics) is a senior role within the team and a Technical Advisor both internally and to clients, collaborates closely with the Data & Analytics Strategy Lead, participates in presales and post-sale delivery, responsible for designing customer-specific solutions, and expected to influence the design of repeatable service offerings and Inviso’s technology roadmap.

Inviso is a Microsoft Gold Partner with competencies in Cloud Platform, Data Platform, and Data Analytics and a trusted partner to many Microsoft teams helping organizations achieve their BI vision.

If you have serious experience building modern data and analytics solutions on Azure, then we want to give you the opportunity to help grow and lead one of our fastest growing practice areas. A passion for helping clients succeed in the Cloud is required.

**Qualifications**:
**Key activities for this role**:

- Plan, configure, deploy, and optimize Microsoft Azure based solutions
- Continuously improve team processes to ensure information is of the highest quality, contributing to the overall effectiveness of the team
- Stay abreast of industry changes, especially in the areas of cloud data and analytics technologies
- Quickly learn and adapt to new business and technical concepts
- Coach other technical consultants and sellers related to Cloud technologies in your area of specialization
- Working with customers to understand their business needs and translate them into written requirements that can be understood by technical and non-technical audiences
- Building compelling, interactive, and actionable reporting on top of structured data models
- Delivering within the full BI lifecycle from requirements analysis through design & development and on into release and support/maintenance phases
- Analyzing new/disparate data sources for integration with existing datasets to tell a comprehensive BI story
- Partnering with account management during the pre-sales process to identify customer business objectives and challenges

**Key Qualities**
- Critical & creative thinking
- Self-motivated with ability to work effectively with limited oversight
- Enthusiasm for collaboration and continued learning
- Comfortable with ambiguous requests and adept at translating them into detailed work plans and deliverables
- Strong work ethic and attention to detail
- Relaxed, positive attitude under pressure
- Strong communication, team, and customer management skills
- Effectively drives pre-sales requirements analysis and solution definition

**How we are developing our Azure based solutions**:

- _Analytics_: Data Factory, Data Lake Storage, Databricks, Data Explorer, Machine Learning, and Azure Synapse Analytics
- _Database_: SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure SQL Database
- _Reporting_: Azure Analysis Services & Power BI

**Experience & Skills Required**:

- 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and deploying data solutions using Microsoft BI technologies including SQL Server, Power BI, Excel, SSIS, & SSAS
- 2+ years of experience developing data solutions using Azure Data Services, including the _Analytics_, _Database_ and/or _Reporting_ services noted above
- Strong executive presence including communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with large and small technical audiences
- Experience leading workshops with senior stakeholders aimed at identifying business drivers and articulating enterprise-level solution architectures
- Capable of speaking articulately to a breadth of topics such as SQL Server, Azure data store technologies, ETL, data warehousing, data modeling, O365 and Azure administration, etc.
- Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow-through with exceptional verbal and written communications
- Goal-oriented team player committed to quality and detail
- Innovative thinker who is positive, proactive, and readily embraces change
- Project management experience
- Must be eligible to work as a vendor at Microsoft

**Desired Qualifications**
- Experience with SCRUM/Agile methodologies, especially the Product Owner role
- Experience managing or leading a technical project team is highly desired
- Experience configuring and deploying Azure infrastructure components, s