Architect- Architecture Design

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View email address on click.appcast.io AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Infrastructure Architect.

advances automation (PowerShell/Python/Ansible) and governance/policy.
Leads architectural initiatives, establishes performance benchmarks, integrates systems at scale, researches emerging tech, and mitigates enterprise risk.
Quality & Independence: Ensures integrity, scalability, and cost/performance optimization; Leads architectural teams, builds strategic partnerships, institutionalizes knowledge management, and communicates designs and executiveready reports.
Consulting & Engagement: Delivers architectural consulting aligned to business strategy, proposes enterprise technologies, nurtures vendor alliances, and seeds new project opportunities.
As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a M365 Messaging and Identity Architect.
Project Summary AIS is seeking a Microsoft 365 Messaging and Identity Architect to lead the design and governance of enterprise messaging, hybrid identity, and migration solutions across Microsoft 365 environments on a federal contract. This roleis responsible fordefining architecture, guiding implementation strategy, resolving complex cross-platform dependencies, and ensuring messaging and identity solutions align with security, compliance, operational, and business requirements.
Define end-to-end architecture for Exchange Online, Exchange Hybrid, and hybrid identity solutions in enterprise Microsoft 365 environments.
Lead architectural planning for messaging modernization initiatives, including tenant onboarding, hybrid coexistence, cloud migrations, tenant-to-tenant transitions, and archive strategies.
Develop architecture patterns for Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Entra ID, identity synchronization services, mail hygiene platforms, and enterprise security controls.
Establish migration strategies, wave planning frameworks, readiness criteria, cutover models, rollback approaches, and post-migration stabilization guidance for enterprise-scale programs.
Evaluate and define target-state architectures for identity and messaging services, including synchronization scope, authentication dependencies, directory hygiene, object governance, and access control alignment.
Partner with security and compliance stakeholders to ensure messaging and identity architecture aligns with regulatory obligations, audit expectations, retention requirements, and enterprise protection standards.
Define engineering standards, design principles, reference architectures, andimplementationguardrails for messaging and hybrid identity services.
10+ years of experience in Microsoft messaging, identity, and enterprise infrastructure architecture.
Microsoft 365 Certified: Deepexpertisein Exchange Online and Exchange Hybrid architecture for large or complex environments.
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, hybrid identity architecture, Entra Connect / Azure AD Connect, authentication models, and identity lifecycle dependencies.
Advanced understanding of mail flow architecture, including SMTP routing, connector strategy, DNS dependencies, namespace planning, message hygiene, and secure relay patterns.
Experience with Microsoft Purview compliance capabilities as they relate to Exchange retention, archive strategies, eDiscovery, and governance.
Familiarity with adjacent Microsoft 365 workloads such as Teams, SharePoint Online, and collaboration security as they intersect with identity and messaging design.
Experience with third-party migration tools, mail hygiene platforms, SMTP relay services, or tenant consolidation programs.
Experienceestablishingoperational support models, service transition plans, and governance controls for Microsoft 365 messaging and identity services.
Relevant Microsoft certifications in Microsoft 365, Azure, Identity, Security, or Architecture disciplines.
We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.
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