Microsoft Messaging Architect - Vancouver Job

Microsoft Messaging Architect - Vancouver(Job Number: 11580)

Description

Avanade is looking for a Microsoft Messaging Architect that possesses professional consulting attributes, exceptional technical skills, strong client focus, excellent communication and presentation skills, strong client focus, and commitment to detail. As a Microsoft Messaging Architect, you will be responsible for assistance with support, opportunity development, planning, design, and delivery on a variety of initiatives such as Microsoft Online Services and Messaging/Collaboration. You will apply functional knowledge and technical expertise to design systems to support customer needs and you will contribute to our vast repository of intellectual property.

Responsibilities include:

Collaborating with sale representatives to assist with opportunity development through pre-sales support, responding to client opportunities and RFPs, meeting with customers to present Avanade offerings and solutions, and scoping/estimating effort;

Providing project delivery leadership, including defining project scope, deliverables, effort estimation, and implementation timelines

Designing, implementing and executing technical solutions in Microsoft and multi-vendor environments; primarily consisting of messaging and communication system implementations, upgrades, migrations and integrations;

Gathering business requirements and translating them into IT solutions;

Leading design reviews to ensure optimum solution delivery.

Leading solution implementation and delivery;

Developing and delivering internal and external presentations to various levels.

Performing benefit analysis for IT solutions and calculating business value.

Managing diverse responsibilities, projects and assignments while maintaining a high level of quality.

Leading teams across functional and geographic boundaries; teaching and mentoring colleagues.

Qualifications

Requirements:

Minimum 7 years of progressive experience working in a medium to large IT environment as a subject matter expert in Microsoft infrastructure solutions;

Minimum of 7 years’ experience in the design and implementation of messaging and communication solutions at the Architect level;

Demonstrated technical design, configuration, and implementation expertise with Exchange Server 2010;

Excellent communication skills, including executive-level presentation experience;

Exceptional writing skills, including documenting solution architectures, support information, and leading bid response processes (RFP’s, ITQ’s, SOW’s, etc.);

Strong customer service focus and attention to detail;

Ability to travel;

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS, or related field;

Industry recognized certifications and memberships (MCSE, MCTS, MCITP, etc.).

The ideal candidate must have strong knowledge and demonstrated experience with architecture, implementation and support expertise with the following technologies, strategies and activities:

Large scale messaging system designs, implementations and migrations;

Microsoft Unified Communications technologies: Office Communications Server / Lync Server;

Non-Microsoft Enterprise Messaging and Collaboration technologies: Lotus Notes

Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES);

Archiving and Journaling with Microsoft Exchange;

Messaging security and protection technologies and strategies: Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange, others;

Messaging system operations and management process best practices;

Messaging system backup, redundancy and disaster recovery technologies and strategies;

Knowledgeable in Active Directory design, deployment and migrations;

Windows Server Operations Systems: Windows Server 2008R2 / 2008;

Virtualization technologies.

Additional knowledge and experience with two or more of the following technologies advantageous:

Microsoft Cloud Services: BPOS, Office 365;

Telecommunications technologies: Voice; VOIP; PBX;

Microsoft Collaboration technologies: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS);

Microsoft Identity Management technologies: ILM/FIM;

Microsoft Security technologies: Forefront Server, Network Edge, Client and Security Management products;

Microsoft Database technologies: SQL Server;

PowerShell Scripting and process automation;

Microsoft Virtualization technologies: Hyper-V, App-V, Med-V;

Knowledge of non-Microsoft technologies: VMware; Citrix

System Center Products (System Center Configuration Manager; System Centre Service Manager; System Centre Operations Manager).

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location: Canada-British Columbia-Vancouver
Travel: No
Job Type: Standard
Region: Canada
Job: Systems Engineering
Capability Group: Con/Sol - Infrastructure

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