We are the Azure Customer Engineering (CXP) team, part of the Azure Engineering team and composed of customer obsessed & passionate individuals that drive positive customer outcomes and experiences. FastTrack for Azure (FTA) makes customers successful in Azure and gets them on the right track to: build it right, architect it right, the first time. FTA takes a solution-centric approach and provides customers with Engineering resources, best practices, tools and resources that drive Azure usage.

We are looking for an experienced leader with a balance of Azure Data & AI technical expertise along with strong managerial experience and a passion to build and grow high performing teams. This is a leadership position (M1) in a player/coach model, managing a geo distributed team across EMEA.

If you want to have broad impact, be a leader, and truly help customers realize the value of their Azure investment - this is the role for you!

Responsibilities

• Leading a high performing, diverse, and intensely collaborative team of customer facing engineers in the Data, Analytics & AI domain
• Directly engaging with customers to validate new solutions and POC's; updating modules per learnings and feedback
• Sharing knowledge with others through management best practices, solution documents, engage technical communities, build automated self-help solutions
• Subject Matter Expert for Azure Data, Analytics & AI with experience Azure architecture design preferred. Good understanding of migration and modernization strategies and approaches.
• Helping customers migrate and/or build Data, Analytics & AI workloads throughout their Azure journey towards production and expanding their cloud footprint
• Partnering with various Azure Engineering subject matter experts including the Presales and Customer Advisory team to scope and build customer facing content, modules, tools and proof of concepts
• Staying current on latest Azure/Cloud innovations in order to conduct experiments, drive product improvement, and act as an Azure subject matter trainer for other engineers

Qualifications

• Previous people management experience is preferred
• Proven experience working as an Cloud technical architect, with a mix of architecture and technical lead roles
• Ability to lead, manage, build, and deliver customer business results through an engineering or professional services team. Including leading of large geo distributed orgs that includes managers
• Excellent customer service skills, good oral and written communication skills, proven ability to handle difficult and sensitive situations involving the most critical and politically charged customer situations; to lead projects and teams to motivate others.
• Technical proficiency in Azure required in the Data, Analytics & AI domain – across scenarios like Data Migration, Data Modernization, Modern Data Warehouse, Analytics, Azure ML, etc.

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.