Responsibilities
Being a major contributor to OCG’s strategy, the architect provides guidance and structure to maintain and evolve our delivery competency, evangelizes our technical brand and expertise in the marketplace, influences partner product and positioning decisions, and sets the technical direction for the company.
On the tactical side, the architect leverages their breadth of experience with current and emerging technologies to help clients develop a technology strategy and road map and then in executing on that road map, the architect ensures multiple concurrent engagements are effectively scoped, resourced, delivered, and closed.
Being fully independent, the architect proactively identifies and diffuses situations that could lead to execution risks, is able to triage and effectively resolve delivery issues as they are encountered, and analyzes day-to-day delivery experiences to drive improvements across the practice.
Skills and Experience Required
The Architect will have a breadth of deep technical skills with a strong Microsoft bias, along with advanced certifications (at least one of: MCSE, MCITP, CISSP). Experience with appropriate technologies, including those that compete with Microsoft is essential – not all architects will cover all technologies of course, but experience in large-enterprise environments with demonstrated architecture, engineering, and operations skills in Active Directory, MIM Sync, and Microsoft Entra ID are critical.
While OCG looks for leaders in every role, the architect leads from the front – leadership and influence skills are critical. The architect is highly customer-oriented, has great communication skills (written, verbal, presentation, influence), follows established process, deals extremely well with ambiguity, effectively mentors others, and has a high level of personal ambition and initiative to help them stand out in a peer group of the best in the business. The architect must have at least 10 years of experience architecting/engineering/supporting related technologies in a large-scale enterprise environment.
Desired
Additional skills desired in an ideal architect include technical breadth and/or depth in related technologies, as well as the MIM Portal, MIM workflow development, Roles Based Access Control, Active Directory Federation Service, Azure Multifactor Authentication, Azure Rights Management, Intune, Systems Center Configuration Manager, Systems Center Operations Manager, Systems Center Service Manager, Office 365, Dirsync, Public Key Infrastructure, C#, and VB. Advanced project management skills, additional Microsoft and security-industry certifications, and a B.S./M.S. in Computer Science (or other related field of study) are also highly desired.
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