Connection's Technical Solutions Division has a fantastic opportunity for a Sr. Solution Architect – Digital Workspace! We offer excellent benefits, career growth opportunities, and the chance to work with leading-edge Microsoft, Cloud, Security, and Digital Workspace technologies while helping enterprise customers modernize and transform their IT environments.
We are seeking an accomplished Microsoft Solutions Architect and Cloud Architect with extensive experience designing, selling, and delivering enterprise solutions across Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Copilot environments. This highly visible, client-facing role combines deep technical expertise with strong consultative sales and solution-selling skills to help customers achieve their business and technology objectives.
The ideal candidate will serve as a trusted advisor to customers, sales teams, and internal stakeholders, architecting innovative Digital Workspace solutions that align business requirements with scalable, secure, and modern technology platforms.
Who We Are
Our team is made stronger by a multitude of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. It’s what makes Connection unique—what drives us to innovate and create technology solutions that stand apart from the crowd. We’d love for you to be a part of that fabric, to share your ideas and experiences with a team that thrives on fresh thinking, creativity, and helping others.
Why You Should Join Us
You’ll find supportive teammates and a rewarding career at Connection—plus great benefits. We take pride in supporting employees with a total rewards package that provides financial, emotional, and physical resources for you and your family. Our compensation, 401k plans, medical insurance, and other benefits are progressive and competitive. We value the importance of our employees’ emotional wellbeing. To support employees, we provide free therapy visits, mental health coaching and tools, and meditation resources. You’ll also enjoy a generous paid time off package that includes not only vacation and sick time, but also Wellness and Volunteer Time Off days.
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The Sr Solution Architect, Modern Infrastructure, for the Center of Excellence (COE) works independently with little or no direct supervision under the guidance general supervision of the Director, Solution Sales COE within the Technical Solutions group. The Sr Solution Architect's primary objective is to drive sales growth of advanced technology solutions and services for all Connection business units through advanced pre-sales technical consulting, solutions design and services scoping. The Sr Solution Architect (SA) draws on knowledge specific to the SA’s primary technical specialization, Modern Infrastructure, as well as secondary areas, to assess, qualify, design, and present technology solutions of highly advanced levels of complexity to clients. The Sr SA offers insight relative to the customer’s industry and/or objectives, and provides solutions based on Connection’s Solutions and Services portfolio and extended partner network. The Sr SA works collaboratively with other pre-sales roles across the Technology Solutions Sales group, as well as other COE focus areas including Multi-Cloud, Digital Workspace, Supply Chain and Lifecycle.
The COE's Sr Solution Architect, Modern Infrastructure also maintains a pulse on the information technology industry and supports the COE Director in making recommendations to senior leadership for ways to capitalize on market opportunities, adopt new and emerging technologies, and to create competitive, market-aligned, saleable solution sets as well as differentiated solution and services offerings.
· Creates and delivers sellable solutions, based on a combination of requirements gathering, data collection and sizing exercises, and documented design and configuration activities. Utilizes internally-established presales tools, as well as vendor-provided and industry-established reference architectures and validated designs, while leveraging Connection’s leading vendor and OEM product portfolios in a way that they can be efficiently and effectively combined into a holistic, integrated solution of product and services.
· Designs advanced solutions that serve the functional and technical requirements of the client, and which best enable the sale and/or delivery of solutions that contribute to the customer’s success and ongoing enhancement of customer lifetime value.
· Assists in the development of new professional and managed services offerings according to a multi-disciplinary framework that best supports Connection’s ability to deliver holistic, unified solution sets that result in positive customer experience (CX) and overall customer satisfaction. Articulates and presents the portfolio to Sales, to current and potential customers, as well as to Product Management (PM) and Connection’s partners and vendors.
· Assists with the creation and presentation of technical sales strategies to drive growth of advanced technology solutions and services. Supports targeting sales into new accounts and expanding penetration in existing accounts.
· Develops and builds out Connection’s physical and cloud-based labs, in support of technical enablement, delivery of customer-facing demos, development of new services offerings and ISG Plays, and maintenance of partner program requirements.
· Supports COE- and PM-driven organizational compliance efforts by earning and maintaining vendor certifications, accreditations, and competencies.
· May assist with delivery of professional services, remote (to premises or SaaS) or on-site. This may be performed in a team support capacity or as solitary delivery engineer.
USD $120,000.00/Yr.
USD $156,000.00/Yr.
Ability to demonstrate advanced and/or expert-level operational competencies in multiple technology areas including Compute, Storage, Virtualization, Networking and Security. This includes the ability to identify the right-fit for a customer use case, as well as the ability to present high-level concepts and their supporting solutions at the technology and product/services level to Sales and to customers.
As a Global IT Solutions Provider, we connect people with technology that enhances growth, elevates productivity, and empowers innovation.
Founded in 1982, Connection delivers valuable IT services and advanced technology solutions to organizations of every size and industry. We serve business, enterprise, and government markets—with tailored offerings for a variety of industry verticals, including healthcare, education, retail, manufacturing, finance, and more.
Our staff of highly trained Account Managers, solution architects, and technical specialists deliver the end-to-end technology solutions and services today’s organizations and users need to function at their best. From digital workplace solutions to modern IT infrastructure and multicloud to supply chain and lifecycle, we have it covered—offering trusted guidance, cutting-edge technology, and instant access to efficient, worldwide procurement through our proprietary platforms and network of 500 suppliers in 174 countries.
Our Values
Respect: We are united by one common vision. We work together to create a winning culture built upon mutual trust and respect.
Excellence: We focus on activities that drive results. We lead by example. We work to achieve excellence in all aspects of our business. We are always looking for better ways to serve our customers.
Teamwork: We win together—all success is mutual. We are accountable to our customers, employees, and shareholders. We work as a team to effectively collaborate, and drive innovation.
Integrity: We are honest and direct in all of our dealings. Honor above all else!
Connection has been recognized with several accolades that reflect our commitment to those shared values, including:
• Twice named one of the “Most Trustworthy Companies in America” by Newsweek.
• Named “America’s Best-in-State Employers” three times by Forbes.
• Recognized in the “Top 100 Technology Companies” by Businessweek.
