Microsoft Azure Senior Lead

Job Type:Permanent
Reference code:112621
Primary Location:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
All Available Locations:Toronto, ON; Calgary, AB; Montreal, QC; Ottawa, ON; Vancouver, BC

Our Purpose

At Deloitte, we are driven to inspire and help our people, organization, communities, and country to thrive. Our Purpose is to build a better future by accelerating and expanding access to knowledge. Purpose defines who we are and gives us reason to exist as an organization.
By living our Purpose, we will make an impact that matters.

• Have many careers in one Firm.
• Enjoy flexible, proactive, and practical benefits that foster a culture of well-being and connectedness.
• Experience a firm where wellness matters.
• Build a network of colleagues for life
  

What will your typical day look like?

In partnership with other leaders in the firm you will focus on developing, selling, and delivering leading-edge cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure. As a key member of our Azure engineering practice, you will solve tough problems and ensure success in designing and building complex, world-class solutions for our clients and while helping grow our Azure practice by:
Leveraging your deep knowledge of Azure, you will lead architecture and design engagements which result in highly secure, modern, cloud native solutions
Leading technical delivery teams through the planning and execution activities which deliver quality solutions to our clients
Joining our Azure Community of Practice (CoP) as a leader and directly contributing to the development of our Azure talent pool
Directly mentoring up-and-coming Azure experts in our practice through formal and informal coaching
Identifying and leading internal activities to enhance existing and develop new Azure assets and accelerators that package our technical and industry experience for reuse in other engagements
Leveraging our deep relationships and partner programs to maintain leading edge skills. You'll have the opportunity to participate in trusted tester and alpha/beta programs
Authoring and contributing to customer-facing publications such as podcasts, blogs, and whitepapers on Azure

About the team

The focus and passion of Deloitte's Cloud Engineering practice is to help our clients become a place where their employees are passionate about the work they do, and dramatically accelerate the speed at which they deliver value. We are a specialized capability within Deloitte's technology consulting practice in Canada, focused on the technical, organizational, and cultural elements that must be considered when helping our clients embrace a Cloud-first mindset. Our clients span across various industries including financial services, energy and resources, consumer and retail business, digital-native, and public sector.

Enough about us, let's talk about you

Core Skills:

15+ years of relevant consulting or industry experience, with a proven ability to build trusted relationships with senior business and technology leaders up to and including CxO
5+ years of experience managing multiple, large-scale engagements with a team of 10+ people. You have led high performing, results driven teams with a focus on client satisfaction
Project experience spanning cloud migration (including moving COTS workloads), application modernization and refactoring, re-engineering complex enterprise applications from legacy platforms to Azure and foundational work such as cloud landing zone, monitoring and policy deployment
A love for solution architecting in Azure. You have a good understanding of the Azure Architecture Center and know how to apply different reference architectures to solve for different scenarios. You can architect for complex network scenarios and have a deep understanding of how to properly implement security through all layers of the stack. You have working knowledge of hybrid-cloud architectures, container-based workloads, PaaS/Serverless architectures and how to build and secure solutions hosted on IaaS
Documenting and sharing information, both for our client (design documents and feedback) and internally to our Azure CoP is very important to you
Past experience as a successful solution engineer with years of hands-on experience building solutions in Azure and Azure DevOps
You are a self-starter with a passion for learning Azure and mentoring others. As a technical leader you're always looking to see who else in the practice you can help develop and skill up
Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or similar tools, including Git repos, pipelines and artifact management
Working knowledge of Azure CLI and shell languages such as Bash and PowerShell
Comfortable presenting to senior leadership and executives at Fortune 500 organizations
One or more Azure certifications at the associate level (Developer, Administrator, DevOps Engineer, Security Engineer)
Ability to travel up to 20%

Good to have:
Understanding of Identity and Access Management, user and system authentication methods and certificates, tokens and certificate management
Experience with API development
Azure Solution Architect Expert certification
Knowledge of standard selling disciplines, specifically solution selling and RFP management
Demonstrated skills in leadership, communication, coaching, analysis, problem solving and short term and long-term planning
Experienced, persuasive, and effective presenter, both written and verbal
Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with the ability to handle diverse situations, multiple initiatives, and rapidly changing priorities
Experience with Agile methods and work management

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The next step is yours

At Deloitte, we are all about doing business inclusively - that starts with having diverse colleagues of all abilities. Deloitte encourages applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of communities across Canada. This includes, but is not limited to, people with disabilities, candidates from Indigenous communities, and candidates from the Black community in support of living our values, creating a culture of Diversity Equity and Inclusion and our commitment to our AccessAbility Action Plan , Reconciliation Action Plan and the BlackNorth Initiative .
We encourage you to connect with us at accessiblecareers@deloitte.ca if you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations). We'd love to hear from you!
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