This time-and-material service provides remote Senior Solution Architect support to help organizations understand requirements, create technical designs for complex technology solutions, manage implementation when needed, and evaluate or recommend technologies.
This service provides remote Senior Solution Architect support for organizations that need help designing and implementing complex technology solutions aligned to business needs. The service focuses on working closely with the client to understand requirements, creating technical designs that meet those needs, managing implementation when applicable, ensuring quality standards, and evaluating or recommending technologies to help the company stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices. All work is performed remotely on a time and material basis.
Confirm the request, approved time-and-material hours, priority objectives, key stakeholders, and expected outputs for the remote architect session.
Conduct discovery with the client to understand business goals, technical requirements, constraints, current environment, dependencies, risks, and decision points.
Review available documentation, diagrams, configuration details, or screen-shared environment information relevant to the requested architecture topic.
Develop or refine the technical design approach, including target-state architecture, major components, integration points, security considerations, operational considerations, and implementation assumptions as appropriate to the approved time.
Evaluate relevant technology options and provide recommendations based on client requirements, applicable vendor or platform best practices, supportability, cost considerations, and operational impact.
When implementation management is in scope for the approved hours, coordinate the technical direction, review implementation quality, identify issues or risks, and provide guidance to delivery resources or client technical staff.
Review findings, design decisions, open items, and recommended next steps with the client before completion of the scheduled time.
The Sr. Solution Architect - 1 hour service provides remote Senior Solution Architect support on a time-and-material basis. It helps organizations understand requirements, create technical designs for complex technology solutions, manage implementation when applicable, and evaluate or recommend technologies aligned with industry trends and best practices.
This service includes remote work with the client to understand requirements, creation of technical designs that meet those needs, evaluation and recommendations for new technologies, and remote implementation management when applicable. The scope is advisory and architecture-focused, with implementation management included only where it applies to the agreed work.
The Sr. Solution Architect - 1 hour service is priced at $200 per hour. It is delivered on a time-and-material basis, so the final cost depends on the amount of architect time used.
Because work is time-and-material, the exact amount of support delivered depends on the hours approved and used during the engagement.
This service is delivered remotely. The service description states that all tasks are performed remotely, so onsite workshops, onsite implementation, or onsite support are not included in this service.
Yes — the service produces technical designs that meet your requirements. The format and level of detail are agreed with IT Partner before work begins, matched to the approved hours.
The service can include remote management of implementation when applicable, but it is not described as a fixed-scope build or deployment package. If hands-on implementation tasks are needed, the exact responsibilities, hours, and deliverables should be confirmed with IT Partner because the service is time-and-material.
The architect confirms the request and objectives, conducts discovery on goals and constraints, reviews available documentation, then develops or refines the technical design — covering target-state architecture, components, integration points, and security and operational considerations. Findings, design decisions, and next steps are reviewed with you before the scheduled time ends.
Yes. You need an approved time-and-material scope and scheduling window, stakeholders who can explain goals and constraints, relevant current-state documentation, and remote meeting access with screen sharing or read-only access where needed. The full list is in the prerequisites section of this page.
The client provides business goals and requirements, makes stakeholders available for discovery and decisions, shares relevant documentation and environment details, validates assumptions, and approves design decisions before implementation proceeds. Internal communications, change approvals, and licensing purchases remain with the client unless separately agreed.
Fixed-scope implementation beyond the approved hours, onsite work, licensing and hardware purchases, custom application development, formal security audits and certifications, and end-user training are excluded unless separately scoped. 24/7 support, continuous monitoring, and ongoing maintenance are optional extra-cost add-ons under a separate agreement through IT Partner's NOC and third-party support partnerships.
Yes, the service includes evaluation and recommendations for new technologies to help the company stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices. The recommendations should be based on the client’s requirements, because the architect’s role is to align technology choices with business and technical needs.
Yes. The service is designed for complex technology solution design and implementation guidance, including Microsoft 365, Azure, and hybrid cloud architecture decisions. Tell IT Partner the technology area in advance so the right architect expertise is scheduled.