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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.
**Responsibilities**
**People Management**
+ Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
+ Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
+ Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
+ Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual's capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
**Account Delivery Management**
+ Supports strategic relationships with key stakeholders in the customer portfolio, often as part of a steering committee, to ensure service delivery is on track and major issues are being anticipated, identified, and managed. Supports new customer opportunities in partnership with Sales with highly significant or global impacts for Microsoft. Communicates current view of delivery to customer executives on regular cadence, as appropriate.
**Intellectual Property (IP)**
+ Ensures the use, reuse, and creation of intellectual property (IP) in delivery, as applicable.
**Relationship Development**
+ Manages stakeholder relationships both internally (e.g., with Customer Success, Engineering product teams, Operations, Finance, local Consulting management) and externally (e.g., with partners and partner leads). Synthesizes and combines broad insights from personal or teams' experience regarding former delivery experiences with Customers. Closely collaborates with Global Pursuit Organization (e.g., on domain approvals, lead to order, sales handover). Proactively leverages relationships to resolve complex staffing issues and to create clarity. Partners with Software Quality Assurance and Delivery Excellence to monitor delivery portfolio health. Engages in regular cadence with Global Capacity Management Resource Managers to assist in staff matching for Project Managers on new engagements.
+ Resolves issues identified and escalated by Consulting Project Managers from internal and external teams and customers (e.g., across Microsoft organization and with partners) regarding internal or critical customer issues (e.g., personnel change requests, threat of customer dissatisfaction, inability to deliver customer's outcome, delivery quality issues and dispute management), and manages internal executive engagement for escalations, as needed. Establishes escalation standards and process improvements for practice and implements escalation management governance processes.
+ Understands customer and subcontractor obligations, and engages in obligation management. Drives Consulting Project Mangers to maintain the right contacts in service systems and target surveys. Champions the creation of feedback plans based on survey and constructive feedback. May serve on customer executive steering committees to an engagement.
+ Oversees through Project Health Reviews that internal and external compliance requirements have been met. Acts as an escalation point where a compliance or security breach has been identified and to understand impact and ensure notification through correct channels.
**Contracting**
+ Reviews and approves original contract and subsequent change requests. Acts as an escalation point should the contract not be of the required quality, or has created ambiguity in the delivery of professional services to the customer. Reviews and approves subcontractor onboarding (e.g., purchase orders, invoice approvals).
**Presales**
+ Adds input into deal construct and deliverability early in the pre-sales cycle. May work within the pre-sales team for exceptionally large consulting deals.
**Planning**
+ Sets expectations through the Solution Review Meeting conditions of approval and throughout the engagement to tactically direct the Project Manager.
**Monitoring and Controlling**
+ Steps in to take remedial actions with Consulting Project Managers on specific engagements if key performance indicators (KPIs) or certain metrics are not at the quality levels required, to understand and remediate any issues.
+ Reviews risks and issues directly with Consulting Project Managers in Project Health Reviews. Acts as the primary escalation point back to establish consensus and a unified message to the customer
+ Acts as primary escalation point for any technical issues. Overall, is accountable for the quality of the technical delivery of the engagement.
+ Reviews and approves customer change control processes.
+ Ensures Consulting Project Managers' adherence to internal financial rhythms of business (ROBs). Acts as primary escalation point for budgetary issues. Serves as the primary approver for the release of any Risk Reserve required on engagements
+ May be positioned as an Executive Steerco Member on customer engagements. Facilitates across organizational boundaries to gain consensus and direction on the delivery. Ensures that customer opportunities, questions, and/or issues are brought to the appropriate internal teams (e.g., Sales, Architects). Models and encourages others to develop and/or expand awareness of internal mechanisms in order to best address customer needs. Establishes accountabilities, when appropriate, to drive customer outcomes and ensure internal stakeholders are in place.
**Closure**
+ Validates the customer sign off on Proof of Delivery/Delivery Acceptance Form.
+ Seeks themes in lessons learned and delivery constraints/issues, and documents and socializes with relevant internal Microsoft teams to improve intellectual property (IP) and feed into continuous improvement.
**Portfolio Management**
+ Acts as centralized management for one or more project portfolio(s) to achieve strategic objectives. Oversees a broad portfolio of deliveries managed and supported by Consulting Project Managers. Impacts global community to drive change and initiate additional customer outreach. Oversees a broad portfolio of complex accounts, when appropriate. Supports management and assurance of the all-up delivery of consulting engagements.
+ Proactively reviews portfolio health. Ensures challenged engagements receive support and are monitored to execute against Go-to-Green Plans. Establishes operational processes and standards to mitigate delivery issues for the organization to adopt. Ensures methodology, processes, and quality standards are consistently implemented and tools are leveraged appropriately. Monitors and manages metrics, intervenes to course correct, and uses tools/dashboards to identify issues and inform solutions. Understands business implications, recommends insights for the business, and briefs senior-level leaders on proactive solutions.
**Business Growth**
+ Owns the financial health of the portfolio (e.g., revenue attainment, accurate forecasting and portfolio planning, cost management, and utilization, skills, and capacity planning). Identifies opportunities to accelerate and drive consumption and delivery. Owns and drives backlog risk management. Drives incremental business on top of existing portfolio through next step proposals, conducts customer discussions related to NSP and other opportunities. Engages in the pursuit cycle to ensure deals are structured appropriately. Supports and contributes to rhythm of business (ROB) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) forecasting.
+ Recognizes opportunities, creates a shared vision and direction, and moves people and processes in a new direction for a sector(s) or geoarea(s). Innovates and implements long-term, strategic plans, in partnership with Consulting personnel or the broader organization, if required, to shape new opportunities and sustainable growth for customer accounts for large or strategic opportunities. When appropriate, innovates and implements long-term, strategic plans, in partnership with Sales to create new opportunities and sustainable growth for customer accounts across the account portfolio. As needed, negotiates, collaborates on, reviews, and contributes to deal approval processes, sometimes challenging deal construct to ensure Microsoft initiatives are incorporated appropriately. Ensures delivery team alignment and holds delivery team accountable for delivering on sales strategy.
+ Looks for or creates opportunities to maximize timely cloud consumption through current deliveries. Coaches team and Consulting Project Managers (CPMs) to identify new opportunities with customers and to accelerate delivery or prevent delivery delays. Proactively reshapes portfolio to maximize consumption and drive transformation deliveries.
+ Reviews new deals to quantify the expected outcomes are deliverable, risk process is managed, and that costs/resources and number of hours are correctly identified. Ensures the use, reuse, and creation of intellectual property (IP) in delivery, as applicable.
**Delivery Management**
+ Ensures the right mix of internal/external resources are assigned in engagements to drive Microsoft's strategic use of onshore, offshore, nearshore, and partner delivery resource pools. Optimizes use of resources according to deal shaping and financial efficiency to maximize customer value.
+ Drives delivery excellence, maturity, and quality, leveraging Quality Assurance partners and organizations and ensuring appropriate use of Microsoft and industry methodologies. Oversees the successful delivery of projects, ensuring proper project initiation is followed and documented both internally and externally using Service Delivery Methodology (SDM). Oversees the delivery team (Consulting Project Managers (CPMs)) as a primary escalation point for any delivery issues. Monitors the health and risk profile of individual projects through Project Health Reviews. Ensures that customers are surveyed for delivery satisfaction. Proactively anticipates when projects may go poorly and steps in to pivot priorities for mitigation. Influences others to secure resources for deliveries, and holds teams accountable for maintaining obligations to customer contracts and ensuring delivery services across the services lifecycle. Attends steering committee meetings, as needed, with strategic customers to remove blockers and ensure delivery success.
**Other**
+ Embody our culture and values
**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 15+ years experience in consulting/professional services delivery, project management, or practice management, or leading portfolio management, complex programs, or revenue-driven (e.g., $10 million +) programs
OR equivalent experience
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification desirable
- 6+ years consulting, professional services, or related financial management experience (e.g., cost management, revenue forecasting)
- Agile certification, Scrum Master, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or Professional Scrum Master One (PSM1) certification
- Certification in relevant industry.
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We have flexibility across location Flex and we look with 2-3 years of relevant exp .

Must to Have OR Primary skillsets

• Proficiency in Solution Architecture, Costing and Pricing, Staffing sizing estimations, Infrastructure Managed Services (IMS) solutioning, Cloud Solutioning, Good grip on Excels
• Solution Manager, Solution Architect, PreSales Architect, Presales Solution, Sales Solution Architect, Solution Manager

Also have experience in

Pre-solutioning is Sales stages, Presales area, Drafting Solution Plan, Proposal Response, Deal stakeholder mgmt., Reviews and approvals from Deal Team

Good to have

Cloud, Paas, Data AI, GenAI, Automation

Skills Required
Solution Architecture, Solutioning

Overview

At Microsoft, our core mission is empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Industry Solutions (IS) is a global organization of over 16,000 strategic sellers, industry experts, elite engineers, architects and consultants, who along with delivery experts are working together to bring Microsoft's mission of empowerment – and cutting-edge technology - to life for the world's most influential customers. We are on the front lines of innovation, working side-by-side with customers to drive value across the entirety of their digital transformation journey. Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree OR Master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years' experience in developing technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and consulting.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications 

• Technical or Professional Certifications
• Inclusive and collaborative – driving teamwork and cross-team alignment. 
• Strong partner relationship management and solution development skills. 
• Conversant knowledge of competing platforms and solutions. 
• Strong executive presence including communication and presentation skills with high comfort to large and small technical audiences. 
• Problem solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, conflict resolution, and follow through with partners. 
• Orchestration of application development lifecycle. 
• Demonstrable architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of complex application architectures 
• Candidates must also demonstrate the ability to adapt to new technologies, learn quickly, and understand relevant cloud trends is required. 

Other

• The job may require travel.
• Fluent English verbal and written communications skills are a must. 

Responsibilities

Architecture and Design

• Leverages a structured approach to architecture projects using existing methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Agile, Iterative) that make use of existing reference architecture and established architectural styles and design patterns.
• Defines and documents the Architecture through an architecture description document, an architecture decisions log, and a requirements/constraints traceability matrix to communicate the value proposition of the business solution
• Leads cost-based and technology-based discussions to explain the architecture in terms of its build, deployment, and ongoing operational use to determine customer appetite for the business solution. Demonstrate ROI that the business solution realizes. 
• Collaborates with the Project Manager to jointly drive project/technical governance of the design, build, and deployment into use of proof of concepts (POCs) and pilots.
• Collaborates with business sponsor and customer/partner stakeholders (e.g., Business users, Enterprise Architects, Security Team, Operations Team) to gather and ratify requirements and constraints. Manages and resolves ambiguity in the requirements and documents assumptions and implications where it cannot be resolved.
• Drives development and execution of Test Plans to prove that each requirement/constraint has been implemented as expected by the customer.
• Collaborates with Project Manager and Account Team to identify, categorize, and communicate business and technical risks.
• Generates new and/or improvements to existing intellectual property. Drives the re-use of intellectual property and recommends practices in both pre-sales and delivery.
• Participates and contributes to internal/external communities. 

Trusted Advisor 

• Develops a network of internal/external relationships to build influence in addressing problems/ blockers and facilitating additional views on the matter of interest. Stays up to date on Microsoft's technologies, products.
• Uses evidence-based arguments that articulate complex concepts in a simple manner to respectfully challenge Microsoft and customers / partners when a decision or course of action will not produce optimal results.
• Serves as the 'technical conscience' to challenge the status quo and unrealistic expectations.
• Proactively resolves conflicts and seeks resolution to balance the overall outcome.

Thought Leadership 

• Shares ideas, insight, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using a thorough knowledge of specific Microsoft products and their context in the competitive landscape.  
• Participates in external architect community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and shares learnings with internal team. Acts a mentor to junior colleagues to educate them on technical and non-technical concepts.

Technology Areas  

• Designing scalable solutions on Azure cloud platforms with focus on performance and resiliency, utilizing microservices architecture, data structures, modern application design patterns, and anti-patterns, such as MVC, CQRS and/or SAGA 
• Engineering distributed applications within architectural scenarios such as Web and IoT 
• Extensive experience in application development including implementing, customizing, operating, and troubleshooting Azure Cloud solutions. 
• Comprehensive expertise in microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes. Containers for packaging application deployment units and interacting with container-orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, Service Fabric, Cloud Foundry 
• Defining CI/CD pipelines to automate test and release across different application environments using concepts such as Blue/Green and Canary deployments and related technologies (e.g., Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure for DevOps, Chef, Puppet) 
• Strong working knowledge of security controls such as encryption, AuthN/AuthZ, application monitoring and end-to end Telemetry. 
• Proficient with one or more Cloud Databases such as Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Azure Cosmos DB, database scalability and availability 
• Source code management including branching, merging, and rebasing etc. using Git or other source control technologies such as TFS 
• Open-source technologies and frameworks 
• Exposure to Azure Infrastructure & Security including load balancing, geo-redundancy, CDN and VPN technologies. 

Skills Required
Solution Architect

Overview

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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 15+ years experience in consulting/professional services delivery, project management, or practice management, or leading portfolio management, complex programs, or revenue-driven (e.g., $10 million +) programs
OR equivalent experience
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification desirable
• 6+ years consulting, professional services, or related financial management experience (e.g., cost management, revenue forecasting)
• Agile certification, Scrum Master, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or Professional Scrum Master One (PSM1) certification
• Certification in relevant industry.

Responsibilities

People Management 

Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. 

Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles. 

Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn. 

Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others. 

Account Delivery Management 

Supports strategic relationships with key stakeholders in the customer portfolio, often as part of a steering committee, to ensure service delivery is on track and major issues are being anticipated, identified, and managed. Supports new customer opportunities in partnership with Sales with highly significant or global impacts for Microsoft. Communicates current view of delivery to customer executives on regular cadence, as appropriate. 

Intellectual Property (IP) 

Ensures the use, reuse, and creation of intellectual property (IP) in delivery, as applicable. 

Relationship Development 

Manages stakeholder relationships both internally (e.g., with Customer Success, Engineering product teams, Operations, Finance, local Consulting management) and externally (e.g., with partners and partner leads). Synthesizes and combines broad insights from personal or teams' experience regarding former delivery experiences with Customers. Closely collaborates with Global Pursuit Organization (e.g., on domain approvals, lead to order, sales handover). Proactively leverages relationships to resolve complex staffing issues and to create clarity. Partners with Software Quality Assurance and Delivery Excellence to monitor delivery portfolio health. Engages in regular cadence with Global Capacity Management Resource Managers to assist in staff matching for Project Managers on new engagements.

Resolves issues identified and escalated by Consulting Project Managers from internal and external teams and customers (e.g., across Microsoft organization and with partners) regarding internal or critical customer issues (e.g., personnel change requests, threat of customer dissatisfaction, inability to deliver customer's outcome, delivery quality issues and dispute management), and manages internal executive engagement for escalations, as needed. Establishes escalation standards and process improvements for practice and implements escalation management governance processes.

Understands customer and subcontractor obligations, and engages in obligation management. Drives Consulting Project Mangers to maintain the right contacts in service systems and target surveys. Champions the creation of feedback plans based on survey and constructive feedback. May serve on customer executive steering committees to an engagement. 

Oversees through Project Health Reviews that internal and external compliance requirements have been met. Acts as an escalation point where a compliance or security breach has been identified and to understand impact and ensure notification through correct channels. 

Contracting  

Reviews and approves original contract and subsequent change requests. Acts as an escalation point should the contract not be of the required quality, or has created ambiguity in the delivery of professional services to the customer. Reviews and approves subcontractor onboarding (e.g., purchase orders, invoice approvals). 

Presales  

Adds input into deal construct and deliverability early in the pre-sales cycle. May work within the pre-sales team for exceptionally large consulting deals. 

Planning  

Sets expectations through the Solution Review Meeting conditions of approval and throughout the engagement to tactically direct the Project Manager. 

Monitoring and Controlling 

Steps in to take remedial actions with Consulting Project Managers on specific engagements if key performance indicators (KPIs) or certain metrics are not at the quality levels required, to understand and remediate any issues.

Reviews risks and issues directly with Consulting Project Managers in Project Health Reviews. Acts as the primary escalation point back to establish consensus and a unified message to the customer 

Acts as primary escalation point for any technical issues. Overall, is accountable for the quality of the technical delivery of the engagement. 

Reviews and approves customer change control processes. 

Ensures Consulting Project Managers' adherence to internal financial rhythms of business (ROBs). Acts as primary escalation point for budgetary issues. Serves as the primary approver for the release of any Risk Reserve required on engagements 

May be positioned as an Executive Steerco Member on customer engagements. Facilitates across organizational boundaries to gain consensus and direction on the delivery. Ensures that customer opportunities, questions, and/or issues are brought to the appropriate internal teams (e.g., Sales, Architects). Models and encourages others to develop and/or expand awareness of internal mechanisms in order to best address customer needs. Establishes accountabilities, when appropriate, to drive customer outcomes and ensure internal stakeholders are in place. 

Closure  

Validates the customer sign off on Proof of Delivery/Delivery Acceptance Form. 

Seeks themes in lessons learned and delivery constraints/issues, and documents and socializes with relevant internal Microsoft teams to improve intellectual property (IP) and feed into continuous improvement. 

Portfolio Management 

Acts as centralized management for one or more project portfolio(s) to achieve strategic objectives. Oversees a broad portfolio of deliveries managed and supported by Consulting Project Managers. Impacts global community to drive change and initiate additional customer outreach. Oversees a broad portfolio of complex accounts, when appropriate. Supports management and assurance of the all-up delivery of consulting engagements. 

Proactively reviews portfolio health. Ensures challenged engagements receive support and are monitored to execute against Go-to-Green Plans. Establishes operational processes and standards to mitigate delivery issues for the organization to adopt. Ensures methodology, processes, and quality standards are consistently implemented and tools are leveraged appropriately. Monitors and manages metrics, intervenes to course correct, and uses tools/dashboards to identify issues and inform solutions. Understands business implications, recommends insights for the business, and briefs senior-level leaders on proactive solutions.

Business Growth 

Owns the financial health of the portfolio (e.g., revenue attainment, accurate forecasting and portfolio planning, cost management, and utilization, skills, and capacity planning). Identifies opportunities to accelerate and drive consumption and delivery. Owns and drives backlog risk management. Drives incremental business on top of existing portfolio through next step proposals, conducts customer discussions related to NSP and other opportunities. Engages in the pursuit cycle to ensure deals are structured appropriately. Supports and contributes to rhythm of business (ROB) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) forecasting. 

Recognizes opportunities, creates a shared vision and direction, and moves people and processes in a new direction for a sector(s) or geoarea(s). Innovates and implements long-term, strategic plans, in partnership with Consulting personnel or the broader organization, if required, to shape new opportunities and sustainable growth for customer accounts for large or strategic opportunities. When appropriate, innovates and implements long-term, strategic plans, in partnership with Sales to create new opportunities and sustainable growth for customer accounts across the account portfolio. As needed, negotiates, collaborates on, reviews, and contributes to deal approval processes, sometimes challenging deal construct to ensure Microsoft initiatives are incorporated appropriately. Ensures delivery team alignment and holds delivery team accountable for delivering on sales strategy. 

Looks for or creates opportunities to maximize timely cloud consumption through current deliveries. Coaches team and Consulting Project Managers (CPMs) to identify new opportunities with customers and to accelerate delivery or prevent delivery delays. Proactively reshapes portfolio to maximize consumption and drive transformation deliveries. 

Reviews new deals to quantify the expected outcomes are deliverable, risk process is managed, and that costs/resources and number of hours are correctly identified. Ensures the use, reuse, and creation of intellectual property (IP) in delivery, as applicable. 

Delivery Management 

Ensures the right mix of internal/external resources are assigned in engagements to drive Microsoft's strategic use of onshore, offshore, nearshore, and partner delivery resource pools. Optimizes use of resources according to deal shaping and financial efficiency to maximize customer value. 

Drives delivery excellence, maturity, and quality, leveraging Quality Assurance partners and organizations and ensuring appropriate use of Microsoft and industry methodologies. Oversees the successful delivery of projects, ensuring proper project initiation is followed and documented both internally and externally using Service Delivery Methodology (SDM). Oversees the delivery team (Consulting Project Managers (CPMs)) as a primary escalation point for any delivery issues. Monitors the health and risk profile of individual projects through Project Health Reviews. Ensures that customers are surveyed for delivery satisfaction. Proactively anticipates when projects may go poorly and steps in to pivot priorities for mitigation. Influences others to secure resources for deliveries, and holds teams accountable for maintaining obligations to customer contracts and ensuring delivery services across the services lifecycle. Attends steering committee meetings, as needed, with strategic customers to remove blockers and ensure delivery success. 

Other  

Embody our and

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect

At Microsoft, our core mission is empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Industry Solutions (IS) is a global organization of over 16,000 strategic sellers, industry experts, elite engineers, architects and consultants, who along with delivery experts are working together to bring Microsoft’s mission of empowerment - and cutting-edge technology - to life for the world’s most influential customers. We are on the front lines of innovation, working side-by-side with customers to drive value across the entirety of their digital transformation journey. Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves.

**Responsibilities**:
**Architecture and Design**
- Leverages a structured approach to architecture projects using existing methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Agile, Iterative) that make use of existing reference architecture and established architectural styles and design patterns.
- Defines and documents the Architecture through an architecture description document, an architecture decisions log, and a requirements/constraints traceability matrix to communicate the value proposition of the business solution
- Leads cost-based and technology-based discussions to explain the architecture in terms of its build, deployment, and ongoing operational use to determine customer appetite for the business solution. Demonstrate ROI that the business solution realizes.
- Collaborates with the Project Manager to jointly drive project/technical governance of the design, build, and deployment into use of proof of concepts (POCs) and pilots.
- Collaborates with business sponsor and customer/partner stakeholders (e.g., Business users, Enterprise Architects, Security Team, Operations Team) to gather and ratify requirements and constraints. Manages and resolves ambiguity in the requirements and documents assumptions and implications where it cannot be resolved.
- Drives development and execution of Test Plans to prove that each requirement/constraint has been implemented as expected by the customer.
- Collaborates with Project Manager and Account Team to identify, categorize, and communicate business and technical risks.
- Generates new and/or improvements to existing intellectual property. Drives the re-use of intellectual property and recommends practices in both pre-sales and delivery.
- Participates and contributes to internal/external communities.

**Trusted Advisor**
- Develops a network of internal/external relationships to build influence in addressing problems/ blockers and facilitating additional views on the matter of interest. Stays up to date on Microsoft’s technologies, products.
- Uses evidence-based arguments that articulate complex concepts in a simple manner to respectfully challenge Microsoft and customers / partners when a decision or course of action will not produce optimal results.
- Serves as the "technical conscience" to challenge the status quo and unrealistic expectations.
- Proactively resolves conflicts and seeks resolution to balance the overall outcome.

**Thought Leadership**
- Shares ideas, insight, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using a thorough knowledge of specific Microsoft products and their context in the competitive landscape.
- Participates in external architect community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and shares learnings with internal team. Acts a mentor to junior colleagues to educate them on technical and non-technical concepts.

**Qualifications**:
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree OR Master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years’ experience in developing technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and consulting.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Technical or Professional Certifications
- Inclusive and collaborative - driving teamwork and cross-team alignment.
- Strong partner relationship management and solution development skills.
- Conversant knowledge of competing platforms and solutions.
- Strong executive presence including communication and presentation skills with high comfort to large and small technical audiences.
- Problem solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, conflict resolution, and follow through with partners.

Other
- The job may require travel.
- Fluent English verbal and written communications skills are a must.

What You'll Do:

• Managing, developing and supporting data lakes, lake houses, warehouse on premise and on cloud, ETL solutions and other analytics solutions.
• You will work on various types of database technologies.
• You will work Cloud data platform.
• On cloud security models, encryption strategy, network layers for on-prem + cloud hybrid model and other related concepts.
• On cloud data migration for large sized enterprise data warehouse environments.
• Establishing new engineering team and working towards taking the team to steady state.
• On native cloud services (Azure and/or AWS) and Python, Scala, SQL

Expertise You'll Bring:

• 15+ years of hands-on experience with Cloud data platform - most and recent experience in Azure Databricks (AWS will also be acceptable)
• Hands on experience in Databricks and deep understanding of its architecture, capabilities, features, possibilities
• Hands on experience with various types of database technologies
• Experience managing, developing and supporting data lakes, lake houses, warehouse on premise and on cloud, ETL solutions and other analytics solutions.
• Experience with various file formats that support big data
• Experience working with development/engineering teams in a global environment
• In depth practical hands-on experience on native cloud services (Azure and/or AWS) and Python, Scala, SQL
• Strong understanding of cloud DevOps practices and implementation.
• Experience in cloud data migration for large sized enterprise data warehouse environments.
• Understanding of cloud data governance include compute optimization, cost control, user profile management etc.
• In depth understanding of cloud operations strategy and user management across various cloud providers and cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding and hands-on on cloud security models, encryption strategy, network layers for on-prem + cloud hybrid model and other related concepts.
• Experience in establishing new engineering team and working towards taking the team to steady state
• Understanding of SDLC and experience in establishing processes, standards and governance to bring efficiency within development team

Skills Required
Azure Databricks, Etl

•Must have bachelor's degree in computer science engineering or related discipline

•A Minimum of 8+ years of experience.

•Over 5+ years of experience in data hosting for both on-premises and azure environments.

•At least 5 years of expertise in data engineering and management across on-premises and azure environments.

•Microsoft AZ900 Certification & AZ104 Certification

•Proficient in utilizing Azure data services, including Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Azure Data Factory.

•In-depth understanding of cloud infrastructure, encompassing virtual networks, storage solutions, and compute resources within Azure.

•Extensive hands-on experience with Azure services such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake, and Azure Synapse Analytics.

•Well-versed in on-premises storage systems from vendors like NetApp, Dell, and others.

•Skilled proficiency in scripting languages like Ansible, PowerShell, Python, and Azure CLI for automation and management tasks.

•Comprehensive knowledge of Azure security best practices, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance standards. 

Skills Required
Azure Data Factory

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of Microsoft’s end-to-end customer experience. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers come to us not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, but also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience.

We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Infrastructure Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) focusing on Azure Infrastructure Innovation to join the Customer Success Team within the Azure Core Subsidiary. As part of this role, you will be responsible for technical customer engagements, working with the most challenging and exciting projects within Microsoft Azure Core customer base. This customer-facing position is a hands-on technical role spanning across design, build, and operations with a focus on issue resolution to remove customer technical obstacles and adoption challenges. You will work with select customers to lead deep technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, IT Management and Developers. You will collaborate with a variety of internal and external teams to develop pilots and oversee implementation projects, ensuring technical blockers are removed on adoption. You will drive technical intensity and create communities within customers. And you will collaborate with Product engineering to share feedback into the development of Microsoft products and help develop Azure platforms.

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**:
Understand customers' overall cloud portfolio, IT and business priorities, and success measures to design implementation architectures and scalable cloud solutions leveraging expertise in cloud infrastructure solutions (Windows and Linux IaaS, SAP, VMware, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, HPC, containers and Infra as a code technologies).
- Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects and MS stakeholders in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform. Ensure all solutions leverage the design and operations guidance according to the Well-Architected framework across all pillars, including performance efficiency, security, operational excellence, reliability, and cost optimization
- Run Architectural Design Sessions to build plan for implementing solution -governing design in line with customer business goals and their technical environment. Outcome is consensus on solution design and next steps toward production. Use CAF Landing Zones to rapidly prototype and deliver proof-of-concepts that accelerate production deployment
- Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates. Be the Voice of the Customer; Share insights and best practices, and connect with Engineering teams to remove blockers

**Qualifications**:
**Bachelor's Degree** in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field
**AND 4+ years** experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting

**OR**

**Equivalent experience**

**Technical**
- Well Architected Framework/Cloud Adoption Framework (WAF/CAF) foundations
- Architecture design
- Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management
- Experience with management of cloud infrastructure solutions one or more (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS, VMware, Virtual Desktop, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, containers, HPC, automation, monitoring and Infra as a code technologies)
- Cloud Native Architectures

**Additional or Preferred Qualifications**:

- Certification in one of the following technologies preferred: Cloud Infrastructure, Data Analytics, Networking, Security, 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)
- Certification in one or more of the following programming languages preferred: C++, C#, Java, Node.js, Python
- Prior work experience in other cloud companies such as Amazon, VMware, Google, IBM, Oracle desired

Benefits/perks listed below ma

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.

The Global Customer Success (GCS) organization, an organization within CE&S, is leading the effort to enable customer success on the Microsoft Cloud by harnessing leading, AI-powered capabilities and human expertise to deliver innovation solutions that accelerate business value, drive operational excellence and nurture long term loyalty.

We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) focusing on Azure Infrastructure Innovation to join the Customer Success Team. As part of this role. you will be responsible

for technical Customer engagements, working with the most challenging and exciting projects within

Microsoft Azure customer base. This customer-facing position is a hands-on technical role spanning

across design, build, and operations with a focus on issue. The role requires coaching team members to focus on customer experience through efficient delivery, driving adherence to Microsoft standards and recommended practices, and providing a holistic perspective of customer challenges and competitor architectures. The role is within the CSA Global Delivery team. It is a centralized group consisting of both full-time employees (FTEs) and Vendor CSAs dedicated to enhancing the customer's experience with Microsoft as they transition to hybrid/public cloud solutions.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

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**:
Customer Centricity
- Gathers customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and maps architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer/partner business outcomes. Acts as the voice of the customer (VOC)/partner by driving new feedback, insights, and resources across internal teams to add and prioritize. Represents the customer/partner to internal teams (e.g., Engineering) to shape products and services by providing insights across the territory. Advocates for the customer/partner at all opportunities and shares customer success stories with the wider internal team.
- Guides other team members to focus on customer/partner experience through efficient delivery and ensuring a seamless and connected customer experience. Supports definition of customer/partner conditions of success. Anticipates customer/partner dissatisfaction and unmet needs and executes strategies to improve experience, value realization, and acceleration of customer transformation.
- Actively listens and respectfully challenges customers/partners when going in the wrong direction, presents insights and alternatives, and takes action appropriately.

Business Impact
- Understands industry trends and the competitor''s architecture solutions and identifies Microsoft''s strengths over competitive solutions to drive conversations with customers/partners and convince them of solution.

Technical Leadership
- Demonstrate the capability to act as CSA Pod Lead with ability to drive planning and delivery of Pod team by engaging CSAM and ATU, manage customer relationship by conducting monthly engagement reviews and assuring quality and be accountable for capacity planning, hiring, skilling and utilization of Pod members.
- Proactively develops technical and professional learning and development plan in alignment with and support from their manager. Role models effective technical readiness. Acts as a mentor and role model to less experienced colleagues to educate them on technical and non-technical concepts. Participates in development opportunities (e.g., Ready, Build, Ignite).
- Shares ideas, insights, and strategic technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using a thorough knowledge of specific Microsoft products and their context in the competitive landscape. Participates in external technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and shares learnings with the internal team.

Important key criteria:

- Should have potential to scale as CSA Pod Lead with ability to lead planning and delivery of vendor Pod team by engaging account team
- Manage customer relation