Solutions Designer - Senior

We are looking for a Solutions Designer for a Hybrid role:

Responsibilities:

Undertakes the design of hosting technology solutions based on the client’s service specifications, standards, policies, best practices and cost models, in order to meet client application business requirement and project/initiative deliverables.

General Skills:

Knowledge of integrated networking technologies, mainframe, midrange server, enterprise storage and SAN, and personal computer system technologies

Knowledge of related best practices, OPS directory/messaging standards, standard facilities infrastructure/architecture management, facility service delivery processes, infrastructures policies, procedures and direction, cost models and procurement processes,

Ability to gather client business requirements; corporate I&IT information mandates, client information technology strategic plans, environment and standards

Ability to participate in the development of solutions and provide advice on short/long term solution service development activities.

Knowledge of leading edge technologies design criteria, security and recovery procedures, preparation of technical specifications for installation, testing and performance of integrated, multi-services systems; assess performance and capacity of existing system making recommendations for improving performance and develop technical documentation.

Experience planning, migrating, implementing and sustaining large complex system development projects

Knowledge of technology developments, trends and new products to evaluated application to client short and long term technology requirements.

Basic knowledge of project management methodology (e.g. PMBOK), analytical tools and processes.

Conceptual and analytical skills to assess and evaluate client needs and conduct cost/benefit analyses for new technology requirements in planning and designing solutions.

Experience designing and developing large, complex, highly available, mission critical server applications

Experience with systems evaluation to assess conditions, technical performance and capacity of existing systems and determine need and feasibility of expansion, renovation or replacement

Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills, verbal and written communication skills, interpersonal skills and negotiation skills, team work skills

A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines

Must haves:

Extensive hands-on experience architecting and designing solutions deployed under Azure cloud platform

Strong experience of integrating Azure Single sign-On (SSO) with Business-to-business (B2B) identity providers

Strong experience in designing, building and provisioning services via Azure CLI as App Services, Function Apps, Logic Apps and Secure Vault

Experience implementing enterprise best practices to integrate various services under Azure Cloud platform, expert in Azure Active Directory and Application Security in Azure, setting Azure API Managements policies

Leading an Agile team of developers for cloud technologies projects to define and implement standards and strategies based on priorities

Expert in working in Agile short iterations, Scrum methodology, sprint planning and management experience