Must Skills:

It is required to have an IT Consulting Background performing Projects & Consulting work and be able to show the following experience in the resume:

• Must have at least 10+ years’ Architecture experience with Designing, Implementing, Preparing, Configuring, & Migrating Office 365 (includes Business Productivity Online Suite)
• Must have at least 10+ years’ Architecture experience Designing, Implementing, Configuring, Testing, Migrating & Securing Exchange (on-premises/online) & Exchange Hybrid solutions:
  • From Exchange (5.5 - 2019) to Exchange Online
• Must have Architectural Proficiency with Exchange Hybrid Designs & HOW the following solutions could break Hybrid Co-Existence as well as how they need to be Designed to work with Hybrid Co-Existence
  • Network Break & Inspect Devices (Cloud Access Security Brokers, Data Loss Prevention, Proxy devices, Secure Web Gateways, WAN Accelerators & Optimizers)
  • Firewalls and Load Balancers
• Must have Architectural Proficiency with Exchange Hybrid Designs & HOW they must be designed in the following scenarios:
  • To maintain Hybrid Co-Existence in a multi-Active Directory Forest/Exchange Org Topology
  • To maintain Data Sovereignty compliance (GDPR) when Multi-Geo must be used
• Migrations from Lotus Notes & GroupWise, along with InterOrg (Exchange to Exchange) and GSuite/O365 Tenant to Tenant Migrations
• Must have Architectural proficiency (Design, Build, Migrate) in at least four of the following Migration Toolsets:
  • All Exchange/O365 Native Migration Tools (Hybrid, Cutover, Express, Staged, O365 Import Service, IMAP) – counts as one toolset
  • BitTitan
  • Binary Tree
  • Transend
  • Quest
  • Codetwo
  • Other
• Must have Architectural understanding of how Third-Party Archive & Journaling Email Data (Enterprise Vault, Mimecast) on legal hold is migrated appropriately (to maintain Data Immutability)
• Must have Architectural Proficiency with integrating Microsoft and non-Microsoft Mobile Device/Mobile Application Management & Unified Endpoint Management solutions with Exchange/Office 365 (Intune, Blackberry, Airwatch, Workspace One, etc) as well as other third-party email aware apps (Unified Communications/Messaging, Fax, Printer/Scanners)
• Must have Architectural Proficiency (Design, Build, Migrate) with Office 365 Email Protection Mechanisms:
  • SPF, DKIM, and DMARC (along with ARC)
  • Data Loss Prevention, RMS/IRM, Azure Information Protection (Classification-Labelling & Sensitive Information Types), Office 365 Message Encryption & Transport Rules
  • Legal/Litigation Holds, Retention, Deletion and Data Immutability
  • Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection
  • Microsoft and non-Microsoft Email Hygiene/Gateway Products (ProofPoint, Exchange Online Protection, Mimecast, etc)
• Must have experience working within Project/Delivery Management Methodologies (SDLC, Hybrid Waterfall)
• Must have experience in the creation of Technical Use Cases/Personas and how these are combined with the Technical, Functional and Business Requirements to drive the Technical Architectural settings/policies
• Must have experience with creation of Technical/Project Documentation
• Must have experience working in a cross-functional team, with the ability to lead/drive the scope of work in ambiguous client-facing situations and requests

Plus Skills:

• Architectural Proficiency with Active Directory, Azure AD Connect, and Single Sign-On solutions (ADFS, Azure Ad premium, Okta, Ping, SailPoint, etc. and how these are Architected, prepared, Integrated and Configured with Office 365
• Industry expertise – IT Consulting

Detailed job responsibilities:

• Maintain client contacts with IT Management and IT Director level;
• Has the ownership of and co-ordination for the total solution, cost estimation, and benchmark;
• Determine client scope and is client-facing SPOC for solutions, e.g. dialogs, presentations;
• Define high-level solution including business case, with delivery, HR, finance, Transition & partners;
• Set and lead direction for solution and challenges of IS deliverables, incl. technical solution components, service solution design, delivery model, projects, governance, and costing/pricing;
• Partner selection and SOW in close co-operation with procurement;
• Monitor solution consistency, business case, conditions, risks and mitigations, assumptions and issues;
• Provide input into DRM as required;
• Mitigate / Minimize delivery risk on system implementation projects by determining the most appropriate delivery approach and by defining comprehensive proposal assumptions.

Other Soft Skills / Aptitude:

• Set and manage realistic and deliverable expectations with clients;
• Develop new processes and methods;
• Accurately forecast and manage costs and profitability for own project or service;
• Proactively develop and implement efficiency improvements;
• Understand the needs of the client and balance them to lead to win-win situations;
• Ensure documentation methods are appropriate and cost-effective.