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The Solutions Architect leads technical discovery, defines architecture and implementation strategies, and develops clear, accurate scopes of work for clients’ technology needs. The Solutions Architect owns solution design quality and delivery readiness, while engineering owns implementation. \n\nIn partnership with Account Management, vCIOs, engineering, project management, procurement, vendors, and client stakeholders, the Solutions Architect guides opportunities from initial discovery and pre-sales consultation through solution approval and delivery handoff. The position requires sound technical judgment, strong business acumen, disciplined documentation, and the ability to communicate complex recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. Key Duties & Responsibilities\nLead technical discovery and current-state assessments to understand client business objectives, operational requirements, existing environments, technical debt, dependencies, constraints, risks, and future-state goals.\n\nTranslate business and technical requirements into secure, scalable, supportable, and cost-effective solution architectures across Microsoft cloud services, infrastructure, networking, identity, cybersecurity, business continuity, and related managed services.\n\nIncorporate security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, data protection, monitoring, scalability, licensing, supportability, and technology lifecycle requirements into solution designs.\n\nDevelop accurate and detailed Statements of Work, solution diagrams, bills of materials, implementation approaches, effort estimates, assumptions, dependencies, exclusions, deliverables, timelines, and acceptance criteria.\n\nPartner with Account Management and vCIO teams during pre-sales 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