Solutions Architect

Job Description

Job Description

We are excited to announce we are expanding and looking to grow our team with a new Solutions Architect at Centre Technologies!

Our Company Culture:
Our diverse workforce allows Centre to develop and leverage knowledge, skills, and experiences that impact our overall success. Within our collaborative environment, our team of consultants work to identify innovative solutions for our clients. Together, we guide our clients through the process of selecting, deploying, and managing IT solutions tailored to their specific business needs.

Centre Company Benefits:

• Hybrid Work Options, Paid Time Off, and Paid Holidays

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401(k) with employer match contributions

• Stability to grow alongside hard-workers in a collaborative environment with opportunities to grow professionally

Position Summary:
Centre Technologies is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer ready to make the next move into a Solutions Architect position. Our project delivery team develops and implement IT infrastructure solutions that will meet the business needs of our customers. The Solutions Architect’s responsibilities include gathering requirements and solution specifications, assessing the current systems in place to identify areas in need of improvement, and overseeing implementation teams. 

Working as a Solutions Architect includes working with the sales team to understand the customers’ needs, creating designs to solve those needs, supporting implementation teams for new and existing clients projects, migration and configuration of new hardware and software.

An architect should be able to incorporate any updated requirements and needs into the design. Have the ability to explain complex problems to management in layman’s terms with a consultative approach. 

The successful architect will have experience in roles such as Tier 2/3 support with a passion for working with customers directly, pre-sales engineer, Sr. System Administrator or IT manager supporting 250 – 300 users, or a consultant in delivery at a company where they did both delivery and pre-sales. 

Centre will need someone with a consultative, and outgoing personality. Who wants to help customers’ businesses run better. Who can lean on prior experience and provide recommendations to clients, with the personality to gain the customer’s trust.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Being an integral part of a team to identify and qualify business opportunities and develop the strategy to resolve technical matters.  (Immediate team will consist of a partnership with Sales and IT Consulting)

• Build deep, consultative technical relationships with your customers, effectively becoming a trusted adviser.

• Assessing the systems architecture currently in place and working with technical staff to recommend solutions to improve it.

• Assessing the business impact that certain technical choices have.

• Providing updates to stakeholders on product development processes, costs, and budgets.

• Recommending integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices.

• Articulating the Enterprise vision on technologies and solutions towards the Client; positions Enterprise as thought leader on key technological developments.

• Leading prioritization of Customer solution / technical requirements and champions resolution of solution / product gaps internally (also towards Product Groups).

• Developing individual skill set and expand product knowledge to maximize value and to deliver quality services to our clients.

• Traveling to Client sites, conferences, and other related events as required.

Other duties as assigned are as follows but not limited to guiding and assisting the Project Services teams on maintenance and upgrade of infrastructure including servers, storage, routers, switches, firewalls, remote access systems, and network management systems in accordance with Centre Technologies methodologies as determined by infrastructure architects, support or other dependencies.

Education/Experience/Certifications

• 4+ years in a technical role (Sr. System Administration, Infrastructure, Cloud, etc.)

• Experience with the Microsoft Stack

• Office 365 – MCSA Office 365

• Microsoft Intune

• Microsoft Windows Administration tools (AD Users and Computers, DHCP, DNS, Group Policy, Sites and Services, etc.)

• Microsoft Active Directory

• Microsoft Exchange 2010/2013/2016/Office 365

• Experience with Meraki & CISCO

• Virtualization Experience - VMware Technologies & CITRIX

• Experience managing on-premises and hosted data center environments

• Experience in Infrastructure and Operations services

• Experience in Enterprise Cloud Migration and Transformation

• Intermediate knowledge of Cloud Economics and Optimization

• Experience with a Managed Cloud service supporting AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform

• Previous experience with managed service providers, operational management, and ongoing continuous improvement preferred

• Experience with public and private cloud solutions

Desired Experience/Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

• Certifications: Microsoft Expert level in server, cloud, M365, etc., Cisco networking or similar, VMware

Work Environment and Physical Demands

• Work primarily in a climate-controlled environment with minimal safety/health hazard potential.

• This position requires occasional after-hours work for overnight patches, upgrades, implementations, etc. 

• Occasional lifting (lift and/or move up to 50 pounds) may be required.

• Reasonable accommodations can be made to enable individuals with disabilities/injuries to perform the essential functions of this role.

• The noise level in the work environment is moderate.

• Occasional local travel required.