Senior Manager, Technology Consulting
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 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
