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Responsibilities

As a Technical Architect in the Microsoft Technology Center, you will be working at the forefront of Microsoft innovation, helping customers create and implement a vision and strategy for their digital transformation. You will be an integral part of their transformation journey, challenging their

ways of thinking and helping them realize and adopt the benefits of our Cloud. Part of a world-wide community of exceptional peers, you’ll have access to the latest software and hardware, and you’ll be given the time and budget to develop as a globally influential technical leader.

Our network of global Microsoft Technology Centers (MTC) are premium customer-facing and remote-delivery facilities built to help enterprise and strategic customers solve their business challenges through innovative cross-workload solutions. We accelerate our customers’ digital transformation by capitalizing on the changing needs of our customers and the new business opportunities of tomorrow.

Primary accountabilities for this role include:

• Based at your facility location (or at home, according to COVID site status / government guidance), you will prepare and deliver technical engagements to enterprise customers. These include strategy briefings, architecture design sessions, building of rapid prototypes, workshops, and hackathons.

• Using your technical knowledge, architectural approach, consultancy skills and our methodology to win a customer’s technical decision to buy and use Microsoft solutions and cloud services.

• The nature of complex customer opportunities which come to the MTC necessitates taking a cross-solution view to leverage capabilities across the entire Microsoft cloud platform; and are rarely limited to a single technology solution.

• You will work collaboratively with account teams to determine the best engagements for a given opportunity to maximize customer benefit and accelerate deals success.

• You will use your technical knowledge to show customers an inspiring digital vision, across all Microsoft workloads, as well as deeper engagement in your core technology specialism.

• You will make this digital vision real using the architecture skills of you and your peers to provide a complete solution.

• You will map the agreed customer vision into a strategy for implementation, resolving concerns, removing technical blockers, and validating a strong business case for investment.

• You will work with the customer, wider account team resources and our partners to orchestrate a roadmap for implementation.

You will help customers make technical decisions to build tomorrow’s business and IT solutions based on Microsoft technology.

• Guide business and technical decision makers on creating business value on top of the Azure and GitHub developer platform through Architect Design Sessions, Ideation, Workshops, and Rapid Prototyping. Synthesize business and technical architecture requirements.

• Serve as the as the go-to technical expert in the Azure application development space with a specific focus on App Migration and Modernization, Microservice and Serverless Architecture, Container Architecture, Edge Computing and IoT, and DevOps for the regional sales teams.

• Design and develop industry and platform experiences and demonstrations that leverage both hardware and software to educate, illuminate and inspire customers

• Show the value of the Azure developer platform and GitHub for planning, building, deploying, and managing applications using the Microsoft development stack and a range of open source technologies.

• The opportunity to deliver speaking engagements evangelizing Azure and GitHub in business conferences.

You will stay sharp, share your knowledge, and learn practices from others.

• We encourage all our employees to continuously maintain and enhance their technical, sales, professional skills, and competitive readiness.

• Your knowledge will be enhanced and shared by participating in internal Microsoft technical communities and in the broader industry through events, blogs, whitepapers, training, and articles for your domain.

You will use your knowledge from working with multiple customers to influence product and community.

• You will enable your peer community to extend their impact through researching, creating and extending complex technical demonstrations in our global demo tenant.

• You will shape product direction through building relationships with global engineering teams to propagate customer feedback and scenarios, and ensure gaps and whitespace is understood.

You will be recognized for sharing, learning, and driving individual work that all result in business impact for customers, partners and within Microsoft. Microsoft encourages thought leadership and leadership from every employee.

Qualifications

Experiences Required: Education, Key Experiences, Skills and Knowledge:

Technical Solution Leader

• Structured facilitator. Validated customer experience in requirements capture; prioritization; capturing evidence and impact to quantify business value; issue, risk and constraint identification preferred

• Technical breadth. Intermediate level experience across the full range of Microsoft cloud solutions – Azure infrastructure, Azure Developer, Azure data, artificial intelligence, business applications, modern workplace and productivity, security, business applications. Demonstrated experience of solution architectures which span multiple workloads preferred

• Collaborative. Able to work cohesively with customers, members of the Microsoft sales, services, and marketing organizations and Microsoft partners required.

• Excellent Communicator. Communication and collaboration, organizational, presentation, deep technical product demo, writing, and verbal communication skills required.

• Executive Presence. Validated experience engaging with senior level executives preferred.

• Consultative Technical Selling and Challenger mindset. Validated experience in consultative technical selling approach, including bringing innovative ideas to customers problems and being customer focused preferred.

• Growth Mindset. Experience and passion for learning (technical and professional skills); implementing practices from others; trying, failing and learning from the experience; sharing practices and knowledge for others’ benefit required

Azure Developer

• Technical depth. Domain expertise in modern application architectures that leverage IaaS and PaaS services, patterns and practices for implementing and operating SaaS solutions and modern application development tools and services such as container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes); continuous integration technologies (e.g. Jenkins, Azure for DevOps); web application server technologies; one or more of the following programming languages: C++, C#, Java, Node.js, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, Pig/Hive preferred

• Platform skills. Experience in helping customers design software architecture and practices (design/development/deployment, Agile, SCRUM, ALM) preferred

Consummate Professional

• Experience. 10+ years of related experience in technical pre-sales and/or technical consulting roles preferred.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field preferred.

• Certification in the following technologies preferred: Azure DevOps

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.