What are the skills of an Azure Solution Architect

Question

What are the skills I need to have such that I can apply for the job of  Azure Solution Architect?

Answer 1

The skills required vary form company to company but the work you need to do will be almost similar in every company.

The skills required are as follows:-

Hands on experience in Azure with the following terms:- 

a.End to end Cloud solution (azure) 

b.End to end Big data solution (hortonworks, cloudera) 

c.Real-time solution (kafka, azure event hub) 

d.Batch solution (azure data factory,  SSIS, azure pipeline)

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Candidate are required to participate in deep architectural discussions with customers to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud. 

Candidate should bring in design and development experience of cloud computing with Microsoft Azure Compute & Storage Services, Azure Kubernetes Service/Service Fabric, Visual Studio, DevOps, Azure Analytics, Azure SQL DB/DW, Azure Logic Apps/API Management/Service Bus, Azure AD, Azure Resource Manager, etc and large scale migrations of application landscapes onto Microsoft Azure. 

Technically adept in multiple areas, including .NET / C#, Java, Python, Powershell, JSON, , Angular JS, Node.js, etc.

These are the often required skills for an Azure Solution Architect.

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