Principal Architect, Digital, AI & Application Modernization

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The Role: Principal Architect, Digital, AI & Application Modernization

Summary/Overview:

A Presidio Digital Principal Architect for Application Modernization and AI leads the presales discovery, analysis, architectures, designs, and proposals of relevant solutions that map to customer outcomes and requirements through direct consultative client engagement. A Principal Architect effectively and efficiently leverages presales methodologies, technical acumen, key relationships (clients, internal Presidio stakeholders and vendor partners), and context analysis (Industry, Customer, Technical, Sales) to position and recommend solutions that that deliver long term value.

Responsibilities include:

• Drive Digital Services Sales. In partnership with sales teams, co-develop and lead the technical sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of Presidio Digital services for application modernization and application development leveraging artificial intelligence (AI).
• Understand Customer Current State. Proactively drive discovery and understanding of customer IT current state, goals, outcomes, and initiatives across Business, Technical, Operational, and Financial facets. Research industry trends and topics and develop discovery approaches. Develop and lead workshops to drive relevant discovery. Document customer current state to assist customer and sales teams target future state architectures and roadmaps.
• Technical Opportunity Leadership. Lead opportunities in application modernization, application development, and artificial intelligence (AI) to achieve technical win of Presidio services solutions. Identify customer stakeholders and their individual success criteria and needs. Create and lead technical solution approaches and next steps aligned to customer stakeholders, including demos. Validate and align technical resources as needed. Engage Manager/VP/Director level at clients directly.
• Practice Delivery Engagement. Actively participate as a liaison between customers, sales and delivery resources to ensure customer success. Lead the collaboration with delivery engineering on driving quality and viable solution approaches and staffing for customer proposals.
• Solution Architecture, Design and Documentation. Analyze and assess client requirements and determine target services approach, solutions, and roadmaps. Create and deliver compelling technical proposals directly to clients, including relevant drawings, diagrams and analysis.
• Technical Excellence & Evangelism. Maintain a high level of technical excellence and evangelism across multiple relevant solution architecture and product areas. Lead the curation and delivery of relevant technical knowledge, presentations, and conversations at all client levels and customer related events. Actively participate in technical champion programs and communities. Attain certifications when appropriate. Learn, discuss and present new and emerging relevant topics.
• Account Leadership. Activity participate in client account related activities that establish the Solution Architect as a trusted advisor internally and with customers, such as: Account planning, EBCs, social events, etc.
• Team Engagement and Enable Culture. Engage Presidio team members, activity participate in team activities, and contribute on collaboration tools to drive an open, positive, inclusive, resilient, change-orientated team culture. Foster a collaborative, inclusive team culture aligned to Presidio's core values: Excellence, Forward-Thinking, Accountability, One Presidio.
• Partner Relationships. Develop working relationships with vendor partner teams and peers, prioritizing the hyper-scaler cloud solutions and relevant ecosystems: AWS, GCP, and Azure. Contribute to and drive execution of relevant partner vendor GTM strategies.
• Continuous Improvement & Innovation. Actively plan and execute growth and career development activities. Seek and collaborate on improvements to presales processes and GTM.
• Enable Others. Contribute to the success of others in sales and presales by developing and leading GTM enablement on relevant topics and solutions. Actively mentor and enable others.

Required Skills and Professional Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience
• Overall 10+ years of relevant experience
• 7+ years of application development and modernization, including the design, implementation and support of enterprise applications
• 5+ years of developer experience using Java, .NET (C#, VB), JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Node.js, React), or similar.
• 5+ years practitioner level experience with application development and deployment on AWS, Azure and/or GCP
• 2+ years practitioner level experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Generative AI (GenAI) solutions, including Low-code, no-code solutions
• Consultative presales experience: be curious and creative
• Experience in SDLC and CI/CD, and DevOps practices and tools
• Experience in delivering modern application architectures such as micro services, event driven architectures, and cloud native application frameworks
• Demonstrated comfort delivering impactful presentations, live demos, and interactive whiteboarding sessions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Growth mindset and drive for trying new ideas and actively seek mentoring and coaching
• Collaborative style and the ability to work with diverse set of stakeholders
• Expert time management and ability to set expectations in a timely manner
• Ability to provide timely feedback loops to leadership
• Experience creating or contributing to statements of work (SOWs), RFP responses, and pricing models.

Preferred Skills and Professional Experience:

• Knowledge in emerging frameworks such as MCP and AI agent-based architectures
• Knowledge in Machine Learning solutions and/or MLOps practices
• Cloud Vendor Professional Certification (AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Cloud Architect)
• Familiarity with Agile Frameworks (Scaled Agile, Kanban, Scrum) and enterprise architecture frameworks (Zachman, TOGAF), and service management frameworks (ITIL).
• Industry-specific experience (healthcare, financial, manufacturing, media, or entertainment)

Your future at Presidio
JoiningPresidiomeans stepping into aculture of trailblazers-thinkers, builders, and collaborators-who push the boundaries of what's possible. With our expertise inAI-driven analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and next-gen infrastructure, we enable businesses to stay ahead in an ever-evolving digital world.

Here,your impact is real.Whether you're harnessing the power ofGenerative AI, architecting resilientdigital ecosystems, or drivingdata-driven transformation, you'll be part of a team that is shaping the future.

Ready to innovate? Let's redefine what's next-together.

About Presidio
At Presidio, speed and quality meet technology and innovation. Presidio is a trusted ally for organizations across industries with a decades-long history of building traditional IT foundations and deep expertise in AI and automation, security, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing. Presidio fills gaps, removes hurdles, optimizes costs, and reduces risk. Presidio's expert technical team develops custom applications, provides managed services, enables actionable data insights and builds forward-thinking solutions that drive strategic outcomes for clients globally. For more information, visit www.presidio.com.

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