Cox Enterprises

Consulting Architect – Azure

Cox Enterprises

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: FloridaIllinoisUnited States

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Salary

💰 $163,400 - $272,300 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to customers navigating complex cloud strategies, working directly with executive and C-level stakeholders to align Azure adoption with business outcomes
  • Facilitate and lead collaboration with senior and C-level stakeholder groups, using tailored approaches to drive both strategic and detail-oriented conversations across enterprise architecture
  • Lead consulting and advisory engagements that assess the impact of business strategy on the architecture landscape—including organization, infrastructure, applications, and data—and align Azure cloud strategy with business outcomes
  • Lead executive discovery workshops to understand business drivers and desired outcomes, then translate findings into phased transformation roadmaps that outline the organizational, technical, and process impacts at each stage
  • Develop investment cases, Total Cost of Ownership models, and business-outcome-aligned recommendations for Azure initiatives
  • Define consulting and advisory engagements in a pre-sales capacity, including scoping, technical approach, work breakdown structures, and staffing models
  • Deliver the engagements you help define, ensuring continuity from proposal through execution and measurable outcomes
  • Lead the design of enterprise architecture strategies, operating models, and roadmaps, and produce executive-quality deliverables—strategy decks, architecture recommendations, and statements of work
  • Collaborate with Cross-Functional Delivery and Sales teams to shape go-to-market strategies and refine the consulting practice

Requirements

  • Required Certification: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
  • 8+ years of diverse solutions architecture experience with a minimum of 3 years of relevant public cloud experience
  • Experience developing and presenting cloud strategy, business cases, and transformation roadmaps to executive and C-level audiences
  • Sufficient technical depth across Azure infrastructure, networking, identity, security, and application modernization to credibly translate between executive stakeholders and engineering teams
  • Familiarity with enterprise architecture disciplines including business architecture, IT governance, data and information architecture, and integration architecture
  • A BA/BS degree with 8 years of relevant experience, or a MS degree with 6 years of relevant experience, or a Ph.D. with 3 years of experience, or 12 years of overall relevant experience without a college degree
  • Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
  • High level of comfort communicating effectively across internal and customer-facing organizations.
Benefits
  • Employees have the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations
  • Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
  • Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members
  • Additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave
  • Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • Retirement planning (401(k))
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Azurecloud strategyenterprise architectureTotal Cost of Ownership modelsbusiness casestransformation roadmapsnetworkingidentitysecurityapplication modernization
Soft Skills
presentation skillswritten communicationverbal communicationanalytical abilityproblem-solvingcollaborationstrategic thinkingdetail-orientedstakeholder engagementleadership
Certifications
Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)