Digital Cloud Solution Architect

We are looking to hire a Digital Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) in S mall, Medium & C orporate (SMC) and Digital Sales. SMC is the common global scale engine across Microsoft Customer and Partner solutions group, helping customers digitally transform their business to drive superior outcomes leveraging our partner ecosystem. You will collaborate with your colleagues in region and digitally to achieve our objectives while embracing our culture of diversity, wellbeing, sustainability, and learning. If you love customers and digital solutions, join us and see the value we create for customers, partners, and each other

Do you love working with customers to achieve their business outcomes? Would you love to build expertise around the leading, next generation cloud services? As a Digital Cloud Solution Architect, you will become part of the next generation of sales leaders at Microsoft. With the aid of best-in-class sales processes, techniques and technologies, you will be empowered to shape customer relationships for a strategic set of Microsoft's customers. These customers are adopting industry-leading products and services for their businesses, education systems or governments. You will serve as the central point of contact for the customer across engagements helping to drive Microsoft's existing cloud & enterprise consumption through developing and managing customer relationships .

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities:

• You will l ead, drive and manage engagements for repeatable achievement of revenue and consumption targets .

• You will l everage best practices to guide customer strategy and future growth for Microsoft by cultivating customer affinity with Microsoft programs/solutions that drive impact for the customer and establishing Microsoft as a leader. Provide feedback to Microsoft on customer development needs, customer blockers, or mitigation strategies .

• You will c onduct analyses into what customers are using versus needs. Drives greater consumption (cloud and support) with customers based on analysis of both usage and needs. Leverages insights to provide guidance and recommendations to customers; drives, retains , and optimizes customer consumption

• You will a pply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap. Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies

• You will r un Architectural Design Session(s) to build plans for implementing solutions which align to customer business goals and technical environments .

• You will c ollaborate and orchestrate with other Digital Cloud Solution Architects and Microsoft stakeholders, including FastTrack, Solution Assessments , etc . , in developing clou d solutions on Azure .

Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales
  • OR Relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms AND 3+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years experience with cloud-based solution designs, migrations and management of technology

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technical architect, consulting, design and implementation, and/or sales
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience with cloud-based solution designs, migrations and management of technology.
• Prefered experiencie to demonstrate and articulate the value proposition of Azure Data and AI services to customers, including but not limited to:
  • Azure SQL
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Azure Databricks
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Azure Cognitive Services
  • Power BI

Digital Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $49.90 - $96.30 per hour. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $64.28 - $105.38 per hour.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 27, 2024.

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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