Solution Architect: Technical Skills
Solution Architect: Technical Skills
Solution Architect: Technical Skills
Solution Architect
Drives customer initiatives in collaboration with customers and participates in both pre-and post-sales (e.g., deployment) efforts. The SA is
a technical, customer-facing role that is accountable for the end-to-end customer cloud deployment experience. SA’s own the Azure
technical customer engagement, including architectural design sessions, specific implementation projects and/or proofs-of-concept, and
deployment.
Technical Skills
• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends
• Solid understanding of cloud virtualization, storage, and networking
• Understanding of cloud governance technologies for cost management and control
• Understanding of common database technologies such as SQL Database/Server, Oracle, MySQL
• Deep technical experience in enterprise mobile, identity and access control, & security solutions
• Working knowledge with AGILE development, SCRUM, and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), with one or more of the
following programming languages: PowerShell, Bash, .NET, C++, Java, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, Responsive Web Design
• Solid understanding of modern DevOps practices, including automation, continuous delivery, continuous deployment, and
continuous integration methodologies
• Deep understanding of cloud-based Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery practices
Non-Technical Skills
Certifications
• Azure Machine Learning, Analytics, APS, AWS, Amazon RDS, Amazon EC2, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Azure Active Directory,
Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Storage, Azure App Services, Azure API Management, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL
Data Warehouse, Azure Import/Export, Azure HDInsight, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Mobile Apps, Azure SQL Database, Azure Search,
Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hub, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Web Apps, Azure Web Jobs, Azure
Cognitive Services, BizTalk, Business Objects, Cassandra, Cloudera, Cognos, Cortana Intelligence, CouchDB, DB2, Docker, Excel, IBM
Bluemix, Google App Engine, Greenplum, Hadoop, HANA, HBase, Hive, Hortonworks, Teradata, IoT Solutions, Java, Kafka, Machine
Learning, MapR, MapReduce, ML, MongoDB, MariaDB, MySQL, Netezza, Networking, NoSQL, Oracle, Oracle Exadata, Oracle SOA,
PBI, Pig, Power BI, PostgreSQL, Python, QLik Tech, REST, Samza, SAP HANA, SASSecurity, Spark, SQL Server, SQL Server IaaS, SSIS,
Storage, Storm, Streaming, Sybase, Tableau, Teradata, T-SQL, Virtualization, WebSphere
• Programming/Scripting Languages: C#, C++, Apache Hive, Perl, PHP, Pig, PowerShell, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Scala, SQL, T-SQL