Microsoft 365 continues to experience incredible growth as the company focuses on its productivity cloud strategy and enabling secure remote work for its customers. As part of Microsoft Engineering, The Growth and Experiences (G&E) Engineering team has a primary role driving this strategy and is looking for individuals that share in the passion to drive business value and customer success through the use of Microsoft 365 and related technologies.

Role:
The Microsoft G&E team is looking for a Modern Work Architect (MWA) that specializes in helping enterprise customers deploy the Microsoft 365 suite aligned by three Modern Work solution areas: (1) Secure Remote Work to improve productivity (2) Security and Compliance and (3) Modern Management. In partnership with the Microsoft field sales and services teams (Sales Technical Unit, Account Team Unit, Customer Success Organization, Services), this role helps customers transform their business and IT environments through adoption and usage of Microsoft 365.

The MWA team is extremely collaborate and supportive and we strive for everyone to have a great work/life balance. The team is constantly challenged to learn new technologies and share customer experiences that help each other grow. We embrace our differences and diversity and actively seek to be inclusive of race, ethnicity, gender, age, and career experiences.

The role is primarily remote and not location specific, a local Microsoft location can be used if preferred. US Central Time zone is preferred to align with customers and teammates. Travel would be mainly in the US Midwest, and post pandemic is expected to be up to 25%.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will engage and develop deep, long-term relationships with select Microsoft enterprise customers to ensure they get the full value of their Microsoft 365 investment. As a trusted technical advisor, the MWA will provide technical deployment guidance and best practices, design their migration and upgrade plans, overcome hesitancy and delay, and gain commitment from the customer to move forward with those plans. The MWA will then ensure that the best resources are engaged and executing on the Deployment Plan, resources may include FastTrack, Partners, Microsoft Unified/Premier Support, and Microsoft Industry Solutions.

The MWA serves as trusted advisor to customer leadership, and chief deployment coordinator, demonstrating both technical and project governance capabilities. The MWA identifies customer deployment, revenue, and transformation opportunities through consistently evaluating the customer environment, engaging with customer business and technical leaders, coordinating with the customer account teams, and delivering briefings on relevant technical solutions and strategies. Leads solution architecture efforts to complex technical needs, managing dependencies to enable cohesive and connected customer scenarios. Lastly, translates Modern Work technical vision, roadmap, key solutions, and technical architectures into growth drivers.

Qualifications

This role requires proven capability to define strategies for customer acquisition, adoption & renewal.  Direct interface with engineers, partners, and customers to map product truth to differentiated customer value. Expertise on Microsoft competitive technologies as well as Microsoft 365 deployment and products is preferred.  Successful candidates will define the value proposition, positioning, messaging, investments and sales and partner enablement to support revenue and share growth and ability to influence cross-group collaboration within and outside Microsoft.  This role also requires experience in dealing with CIO and CISO level officers as well as senior technical and business leaders.

Required:

• Demonstrate an L200 working knowledge of the Microsoft 365 including collaboration tools, cloud managed endpoints, and Zero Trust solutions
• Experience working with customer insights to assist with driving product improvements through collaboration with product engineering teams
• Experience with leading peer teams and driving best practice sharing
• Demonstrate experience driving delivery excellence and ensuring a high standard of Data Quality

• Proven ability influencing customer decision making through delivery knowledge/value discussions
• Ability to act as a technical lead for peer architects in their area of expertise providing guidance on customer deliverables and architecture
• Demonstrate experience leading effective collaboration with sales and product teams to drive customer account growth
• Demonstrate experience leading Microsoft 365 Deployment efforts with Enterprise level

Preferred:

• Enterprise-scale experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management
• Knowledge of how to work with Microsoft Field teams and Partners in landing the Microsoft 365 platform with customers
• Depth knowledge of one or more cloud platforms and products including AWS, Okta, Google Workspace, CrowdStrike, Carbon Black, ProofPoint, Workspace ONE, netskope, Zscaler, WebEx
• 5+ years of professional experience as a senior technical resource with regular customer interactions
• Bachelor or advanced degree in engineering or computer science or equivalent work experience

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