A leading consulting firm with an international presence is currently searching for an experienced Microsoft Azure Architect in Canberra to join their team.

This organisation has recently secured numerous large-scale ERP transformation programs and needs an experienced consultant to advise our clients and ensure a smooth and successful implementation process throughout.

IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOU HOLD A CURRENT NV1 IF YOU ARE APPLYING FOR THIS CANBERRA BASED ROLE 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, standardising 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 relevant 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.
- Solid 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

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