Technology Consultant

Job description

This Technology Consulting role is designed for a senior technical consultant with deep hands-on expertise in Microsoft platforms. You will actively contribute to solution design and delivery excellence — engaging in technical discovery, architecture definition, and proof-of-concept development while bringing strong technical credibility to client engagements. Approximately half your time will be spent working directly with clients — running workshops, shaping solution blueprints, and validating technical approaches; the other half contributing to delivery quality and architectural consistency across active Microsoft programs.

Responsibilities

- Collaborate with Sales & Delivery Management teams to engage prospects throughout the sales lifecycle, from first meeting through close

- Contribute to the scoping and authoring of proposals and statements of work for complex Microsoft engagements

- Support the design of project teaming models and produce accurate effort and cost estimates

- Clearly communicate scope, assumptions, and risk to both technical and executive audiences

- Design Azure and Microsoft platform solutions spanning application modernization, data platforms, AI/ML, and Copilot/Fabric workloads

- Analyze client application and data estates; develop transformation roadmaps and next-generation architecture

- Produce solution architecture documentation covering key technical decisions and implementation approach

- Participate in solution design reviews and contribute technical oversight across active engagements

- Support development efforts and help resolve technical challenges within the team

- Share expertise with EPAM engineers and contribute to raising technical standards across the practice

- Stay current on Microsoft platform developments and bring emerging capabilities into client conversations

- Actively contribute to EPAM's knowledge base and internal communities around the Microsoft ecosystem

Requirements

- Strong expertise in Azure and the broader Microsoft platform across application modernization, data and analytics, and AI/ML workloads

- Proven experience delivering complex, multi-workload Microsoft implementations at enterprise scale

- Demonstrated experience in client-facing consulting roles with confidence in leading architecture discussions with senior technical and business stakeholders

- Experience supporting presales activity, including scoping engagements, writing proposals, and contributing to deal closure

- Solid solution architecture fundamentals across application stacks (REST, containers, serverless, front-end/back-end) and data/AI stacks (relational, non-relational, GenAI, ML)

- Familiarity with Agile delivery practices and DevOps tooling (IaC, CI/CD, automated deployment)

- Excellent communication skills — able to translate complex technical concepts into business language

- Background in large-scale software development or data engineering to credibly contribute to technical conversations on either side