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We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate cloud solution architect with hands-on implementation experience in Data and Analytics space, covering one or more of the following:

Cloud Data Analytics

Data Modernization

Data Warehousing

Business Intelligence

Data Governance

Ability to look beyond workloads at Data & AI platform strategy and market trends

Practical knowledge of the technologies and products in your area of expertise, hands-on experience with solution delivery is a must.

The immediate team you will be a part of interacts closely with customers, product groups for the respective technologies, global field roles such as Cloud Solution Architects, Customer Engineers, Customer Success Account Managers as well as senior leadership team. This is a highly dynamic, high pace position requiring technical depth, agility and independent decision making while dealing with ambiguity. There are ample opportunities for learning on the job to deepen your technical depth and acquire breadth in a variety of technologies.

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Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:

Cloud Solution Architect Role (70%)

Understand market demand and customers’ data estate, including common workloads, use patterns and business priorities and needs, focusing in the specific area of expertise

Apply technical knowledge to help implement solutions, help solve technical customer problems; build technical collateral

Understand current technical capabilities of the Azure and competing products and platforms

Provide thought leadership for technical architecture design, development, and deployment and supports/drives the customer throughout pre-sales and/or implementation.

Identify opportunities for improvement and enhancement based on customer, field and internal stakeholder feedback and help incorporate them into the overall technical strategy

Help define and drive end-to-end programs for execution of the technical strategy

Act as the voice of the customer (VOC) by driving new feedback, gaps, blockers, insights, resources, etc. across territories to track, add, and prioritize, using established channels. Represents the customer to internal teams (e.g., Engineering) to shape products and services by providing insights across the territory.

·        Anticipates, identifies, and removes technical blockers (e.g., changing configurations, sample coding) through regular technical reviews and check ins to accelerate architecture implementations. Anticipates and routes non-technical issues for removal by the appropriate party.

Working with multiple customers to create Proof of concepts (POCs) / Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) etc. and guiding customers through to production deployment and operationalization of projects​

·        Ensure that solution exhibits high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, repeatability, appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment. Adapts methodology and applies governance to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks (e.g. Well-Architected Framework, Enterprise Scale Landing Zone, Cloud Adoption Framework). Defines customer/partner conditions of success, adheres to quality assurance, and calculates risks while designing and/or delivering solutions.

Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners and external communities

Build and grow Data & Analytics communities by driving activities including OpenHack, Workshop

Trusted Advisor

·                 Develop and expand existing impactful relationships with customer and partner/MCS architects, C-level technical decision makers (TDMs), and business stakeholders (to the extent that the customer/partner will call for consultation without being prompted). Provide direction to TDMs and build the bridge between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs). Influences partners in technical and architectural areas.

·                 Create and sustains constructive tension and trust with customers/partners by respectfully challenging their decisions and/or areas where they might do more and encouraging them to consider alternative architectures and approaches.

·                 Lead the adoption of Microsoft architecture technologies based on analysis/differentiation of Microsoft and competitor products to influence the industry-wide direction for specific architecture(s).

Data CTO role (30%)

Data CTO role will be reporting directly to the Data & AI Customer Success Director and be part of the Customer Success Azure Extended Leadership Team together with Apps, Infra, Security management teams and CTOs.

Demonstrate organizational-level Technical Leadership:

By being a visible role model for CSA & CE in strong partnership with other CSU CTOs and other technical leaders in the subsidiary.

By growing technical talents through coaching/mentoring

By being a technical evangelist through internal, external presentations and articles

By leading the front on Innovation by contributing to leading digital initiatives to make the market and drive durable long-term Azure consumption (AI Country Plan, GAIA-X, MovinOn, Mobility as a Service, Ecosystem Platforms, etc.)

Define, execute and influence the Data & AI Technical Strategy by Partnering with Corp CSU and engineering teams:

Be the voice of French customers to C+AI engineering and WCB

Constantly curious for understanding early Tech & Industry trends of the local market to influence our readiness roadmap, our technical capabilities building and our customers education

Knowledge Management by harvesting and sharing IP and knowledge into our local Tech communities

Leading continuous improvement initiatives on Azure (Architecture Forum & Architecture Clinics) to grow tech intensity of the team through an animated network of SMEs and improve  Azure consumption value to our customers.

Deliver CTO-level Customer & Partner facing activities:

CxO level sponsorhip by maintaining direct relationship with technical executives and influencers at key customers and partners

Showing technical credibility on complex architectural or early adopter scenarios

Fostering the creation of case studies and public references)

Thought Leadership

·                 Lead virtual teams around technologies and customer challenges by sharing ideas, insight, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape. Acts as a mentor to multiple peers and lead initiatives to improve processes and drive efficiency.

·                 Participate in external architect community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and shares learnings with internal team. Demonstrate deep industry knowledge and drives recognition for Microsoft solutions through presentations and engagements with external audiences.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Required Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure technologies

OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure technologie

OR equivalent experience.

French and English speaking are a must in order to engage with local French customers and speak at local events as well as with Microsoft international teams.

Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field and 10+ years (8+years for Master Degree) working with large Enterprise customers and field communities in consulting or similar roles, leading deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and support of highly distributed applications OR: 10+ years of experience in building products and services as part of Engineering teams in engineering positions. Required

5+ years of experience driving change management or technical adoption required

Ability to run complex program management at a global scale, including cross-project planning and resource orchestration, as well as the ability to consistently identify and drive program enhancements. Required

Ability to generate trust, build alliances, and orchestrate interdisciplinary teams to the benefit of customers required

Thought leader with executive presence, including the ability to hold CxO and BDM level discussions, exceptional interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills required

Strategic thinking with the ability to execute cross-org and drive for results in ambiguous environments, independence in decision making, ability to problem-solve. Required

Proven ability to quickly adapt in rapidly evolving business situations

Problem Solving. Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies required

Perpetual curiosity and an effective approach to learning: What, how, when, and the way it shapes personal abilities

A deep understanding of the impact of technology; how it drives the current worldwide digital transformation in businesses and society required

Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solutions/projects. Required

Experience in complex and large scale technology projects with complex accounts required

Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts, and ensuring follow-through with exceptional verbal and written communication

Strong Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences and with different levels of an organization

Competence in public speaking and in presenting complex company or product strategies in a compelling manner required

Empathy, curiosity, and desire to constantly improve, acquire new skills and drive for results required

Technical

Deep domain expertise in one of the Data-specific areas, such as SQL Server, deployments and migrations to the cloud, Open-source database deployments and migrations, Cloud Scale Analytics, Data Governance, etc. OR hands-on experience working with the respective products at the expert level. Required

Hands-on experience and technical expertise with respective products and technologies. Required

Working knowledge of Azure and/or competitive cloud technologies. Required

Demonstrated Technical leadership through prior technical coaching/leadership role required

Proven ability to map the customer’s needs to technical solutions required

Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management required

Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments (including migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud) required

Ability to stay up to date on new/improved Microsoft Technology scenarios and workloads required

Competitive Landscape. Knowledge of competitive cloud platforms preferred

Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e., Jenkins, Azure Developer Services, GitHub) and container orchestration systems (i.e., Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Azure Kubernetes Service, GitHub). Preferred

Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs. Preferred

A good understanding of the technology policy environment and how it impacts customers and markets in their transformation desired

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.