Cloud Solution Architect (Global Independent Software Vendors - GISVs)

Company: Microsoft Corporation
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: April 5, 2021

Job Description:

Through our partners, Microsoft brings digital ambitions to life by helping companies empower their employees, engage their customers, optimize their operations, and transform their products. We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate individual to join the Microsoft Partner Success Team (PST) team as a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) for Azure App Dev. Joining the PST team as a CSA means you will be playing a critical role helping Microsoft Partners to capitalize on the $2.2 trillion-dollar Digital Transformation market opportunity. Working in PST means you are shaping the worlds largest eco-system of technology companies working to digitally transform the worlds most innovative companies, large and small. Azure CSAs play a critical role in working with partners to provide deep Azure technical support through solution build and first mile customer engagements including Proof of Concepts, Architectural Design Sessions (ADS), and Hackathons. The CSAs build relationships with partner technical and development resources, designing and architecting new solutions based on Microsofts Azure cloud platform and technologies. They deliver value via a portfolio of service delivery engagements optimized to accelerate partner solution builds and first mile customer wins and stand out as a Technology expert due to deep solutions knowledge. They can go toe-to-toe with Microsoft engineering teams and blackbelts often surfacing product issues, providing feedback and insights that accelerate fixes and updates. Microsoft welcomes and embraces your individuality! The ideal candidate for the CSA role can come in many forms. This individual is passionate about technology and one who possesses a strong subset or combination of the requirements listed below. We also embrace flexible working as a core principle of reinventing productivity, and you will have flexibility to work from different locations, such as your home office, Microsoft offices around the country, or customer sites. Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission. To learn more about Microsofts mission, please visit: https://careers.microsoft.com/mission-culture Responsibilities Partner Enablement and Execution --- Technical Enablement. Jointly develop technical enablement plan with partner(s)--- Enablement Execution. Lead and/or contribute to the delivery of workshops, bootcamps, and trainings necessary to build the technical skills and expertise of partners.--- Technical Engagement. Lead the execution of deep technical engagements, including: Technical Briefings, Proof of Concepts, Architectural Design Sessions, and Hackathons with the goal of defining and brining new solutions to market.--- Skilling and Best Practice Sharing. Network and collaborate with Microsofts Engineering, OCP and CSE teams on specific skill requirements for partners and the sharing of best practices.--- Practice & Solution Development. Improve partners success in implementing solutions and/or practice development by increasing the number of FastTrack endorsed architects in the partners organization.--- Evangelism. Evangelize partners practices and solutions in customers implementations via Technical briefings and Architecture Review Sessions--- Pre-Sales. Enable partners on technical pre-sales skills while supporting initial partners wins. Technical Upskilling and Networking --- Technical and Market Trend Acumen. Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends, opportunities, and competitive insights by staying abreast of various in-person and virtual events delivered by Industry thought leaders such as Gartner, Forrester, IDC, ISG/Saugatuck--- Technical Networking. Invest in own LinkedIn Profile to promote expertise and experiences. Build an expansive Network of partner technical contacts, as well as internal Microsoft contacts including Engineering, CSE, OCP, Global Black belts, M&O and peer Architects.--- Technical Events & Community Contribution. Attend Digital Transformation/Technology conferences such as Build. Participate in technical panels and user groups, provide insights, and contribute work that is shared across communities such as MSDN and Channel9. Qualifications Key Experiences, Skills, and Education Professional Relationship Building and Problem Solving --- Proven track record of building deep sales relationships with CXOs and practice building executives in highly strategic Global ISV (Independent Software Vendor) required--- Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects. required--- Ability to solve Partner problems through cloud technologies, leveraging internal and/or external resources. required Collaboration and Communication --- Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. required--- Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams. Strong presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences at different levels of organizations. required Technical --- Deep understanding of digital transformation business drivers, cloud platforms, emerging computing trends and their impact on partner practice building opportunities. required--- Years of success in consultative/complex technical sales, technology solutions/practice development, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications required--- Experience in the following technologies:--- One or more of the following programming languages: C++, C#, Java, Node.js, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails.--- Experience using integrated development environments (e.g., Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, XCode) targeting Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, public clouds (i.e., Azure, AWS, GCP).--- Experience with scalable distributed architectures using Azure App Service, API management, Serverless Technologies, Container Platforms (e.g. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, ARO etc.), Microservice Frameworks, Spring Cloud etc.--- Continuous integration technologies (e.g., GitHub, Azure DevOps, Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Spinnaker).--- Cloud application design, software architecture and practices; (design/development/deployment, Agile, SCRUM, ALM).--- Infrastructure Technologies (e.g., Compute, Storage, Networking, etc.), Migration Techniques, and Resiliency--- Additionally , good experience in Application Security, Databases (SQL DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra) Education --- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineer, or related field preferred--- Certification in one of the following technologies preferred: Cloud, mobile, web application development, cloud-native application architecture (i.e., containers, microservices, API management), modern software development techniques like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure developer services, GitHub) and container orchestration systems (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Azure Kubernetes Service, GitHub). preferred Other Experiences --- Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a Software and/or Services company such as Amazon Web Services, Google, IBM, Oracle, Global System Integrators, ISVs preferred

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