Consulting Architect – Azure

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🕒 March 31

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💵 $163.4k - $272.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Cox Enterprises

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1898

🏢 Enterprise

📡 Telecommunications

🚗 Transport

💰 Seed Round on 2014-12

Enterprise • Telecommunications • Transport

Cox Enterprises is a leading communications, media, and automotive services company with a mission to solve pressing challenges while building a more connected, mobile, and sustainable world. With over 125 years in business, Cox has invested over $1 billion in sustainable businesses and technology, generating $23 billion in revenue. The company comprises divisions like Cox Communications and Cox Automotive, which provide various B2B technology solutions and automotive services. Cox values innovation, inclusion, and the power of connection, aiming to foster a work environment where diverse voices are heard and respected. The company's commitment to sustainability and social impact is recognized by awards and certifications, such as being named a zero-waste business by Zero Waste USA.

📋 Description

• 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))