Our brand Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia entered the life of Košice region in 2006 under the name of T-Systems Slovakia and ever since has been inextricably linked with the region when became one of the founding members of Košice IT Valley. We have managed to grow from scratch to the second largest employer in the eastern part of the country with more than 3900 employees. Our goal is to proactively find new ways to improve and continuously transform into the type of company providing innovative information and communication technology services.

Purpose

Responsible for the conceptual design, architecture and the technical solution using multiple technologies and corresponding vendors. Guarantees realization, implementation and functionality of the developed solution. The role includes consultancy for potential customer in presales period, analysis of customer demands, conversion of the requirements into a technical specification, evaluation of production costs. Additionally steers the international team of experts in order to deliver solution and to define the SLA’s specifications including the transition and transformation phase to handover solution to support/operational delivery units.

Job Description:

As a Solution Architect M365, you will be able to contribute your personal experience and expertise in designing complex solutions based on the Microsoft 365 portfolio for our customers. You are the technical contact for the customer and sales during the entire pre-sales phase and support you in the implementation of modern, cloud-based Microsoft 365 solutions, starting with the conception through to implementation with our operations teams. You successfully use your excellent experience with Microsoft 365 technologies to implement the tasks. Your core activities also include the following:

• Technical solution design of innovative cloud architectures in the context of Microsoft 365 solutions for new customers and further development of existing customers
• You take on customer requirements for complex collaboration and modern desktop solutions based on Microsoft 365 Services and develop tailor-made offers for them
• You design implementation and operational concepts for Microsoft 365 Services and support customer projects until they are put into operation
• Based on your experience in the Microsoft infrastructure environment, you are also able to create hybrid solutions and combine public and private cloud components in a meaningful way
• You are very familiar with Microsoft products and solutions, can use them efficiently in solution designs and are also familiar with the associated licensing options
• Scouting and evaluation of new Microsoft 365 technologies to further develop our technology portfolio, including presentation at management level
• Development of standards for Microsoft 365 services together with our operations teams that are applied across customers
• Optimization of existing processes and tools for the management of multi-M365 tenant environments
• Examination of existing environments as part of technical due diligence and identification of potential for optimization with new Microsoft cloud tools
• Management of task forces in the areas of IT operations, cloud technologies and solutions

Education

• Master's or diploma degree with adequate professional experience or comparable knowledge and skills

Experience: 

• Experience in comparable tasks
• Very distinctive experience (at least 5 years) in the area of ​​the Microsoft 365 product range and technologies (Azure Active Directory, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams incl. Phone System, Intune, Defender for Endpoint, Office 365 ATP, Conditional Access, Universal Print, Windows Hello for Business, Data Loss Prevention, Multi-Factor Authentication, Privileged Identity Management, Customer Lockbox, Customer Key, Windows Virtual Desktop)
• Strong experience (min. 3 years) with Microsoft hybrid cloud solutions (Azure AD Connect, Hybrid Exchange, Hybrid SharePoint)
• Very distinctive experience (min. 5 years) in the context of the licensing of Microsoft products
• Distinctive experience in dealing with classic Microsoft products and technologies (Windows Server, Active Directory SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, Remote Desktop Services) including proven practice
• Pronounced solution design know-how with at least 5 years of experience in the IT outsourcing environment
• Good knowledge of applications and infrastructures, architecture concepts and technologies
• Experience in cloud computing architecture (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and DevOps
• Technical certifications (e.g. Modern Desktop Administrator Associate, Enterprise Administrator Expert)
• Confident appearance, customer orientation and assertiveness
• Very sound technical understanding and at least 8 years of experience in IT operations
• Distinct customer-oriented, entrepreneurial thinking and acting, especially at decision-maker/management level
• Professional, trustworthy and empathetic appearance up to the CxO level
• Pronounced systematic and structured way of working
•  Distinct flexibility, resilience and willingness to perform
• Excellent presentation and moderation skills, negotiation skills
• Distinct cooperation, team and conflict skills, paired with assertiveness
• High analytical and conceptual thinking skills
• Confident handling of the entire MS Office product range

Languages

German – B2

English – B2

Benefits

We believe in balance between work and personal life. An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio guarantees lasting motivation for employees and thus a better quality of life, promotes physical and mental well-being and contributes to a positive work environment. All this with the aim of providing more freedom in reconciling work, career growth, private life and individual lifestyle. Therefore we offer to our employees over 25 different benefits to improve their personal and professional life in these areas:

• Financial benefits
• Benefits with focus on learning and development
• Benefits with focus on health and sport
• Benefits with focus on family and work – life balance
• Other benefits

For more information about our benefits click to Benefits

Salary

Final salary is negotiable.

We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of candidate. In addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits. Base salary will not be lower than 2500 € /brutto.

Additional information

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation.