Senior Solution Architect

- Drive architecture designs and solutions for our growing markets, particularly in areas such as Azure, AWS, Salesforce, and other SaaS-based initiatives. - Champion the needs of the region across multiple project deployment designs, mobilizing commitment and support among peer groups across various organizational and country boundaries. - Develop and foster strong relationships with Euro and Middle East business partners, enterprise architects, and technology owners to ensure strategic alignment between global standards and regional deployments. - Champion and support the development of the cloud strategy, including assessments and foundational cloud services, and the utilization of IaaS and PaaS. - Participate in the strategic development of infrastructure solutions intended for enterprise use with a 'cloud-first' mentality. - Represent infrastructure and lead cloud-native discussions. - Create deployment designs and provide leadership and oversight on projects to guide less experienced staff in deployment designs. - Produce a standard set of architecture artifacts with sufficient implementation details to ensure that the blueprint or topology is integral to 'as-built' documentation for production readiness, operation, and disaster recovery. - Mature architectural governance by participating as an active member of the Solution Review Board, ensuring architectures and designs align with IT standards, maximize technology reuse, and support technology strategy directions. - Adopt and communicate new concepts, ideas, techniques, best practices, and technologies. - Collaborate with vendors, Enterprise Architecture, and product management to establish necessary infrastructures and frameworks, supporting product evaluations and proof of concepts as needed. - Communicate effectively from the C Suite down, selling a vision and approach to gather followers.