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The Principal Systems Design / Architecture Engineer is a highly skilled subject matter expert, responsible for providing expertise in defining the architecture for large systems.

This role conducts system design activities to ensure that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements.

The Principal Systems Design / Architecture Engineer performs architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seeks to solve complex business and technical problems.

Key responsibilities:

• Provides technical expertise on system design activities and advises on the review of application, software, and system components across a variety of technology stacks.
• Ensures that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements.
• Works cross functionally to review existing system architecture and recommends improvements.
• Leads the investigation and scoping of change requests to determine the scale of work to be done and estimate the timeframe and input required.
• Determines system loads and volumes as input into infrastructure requirements.
• Ensures that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with the company's goals and strategies.
• Enables the design and development of new systems and solutions.
• Ensures that new systems and solutions conform to current system architecture and/or align to strategic system architectural direction.
• Leads architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seek to solve complex business and technical problems.
• Enables and ensures that system architecture is delivered in the form of robust and scalable solutions to business problems and needs.
• Identifies, evaluates, and assesses risks in order to mitigate them and eliminates any factor that may interfere or hinder the delivery of the architectural solution and dependent functional requirements.
• Advises on specifications for solutions functional and technical requirements, and implementation phases required in order to deliver on and solve complex business problems.
• Implements architectural governance, standards, metrics for measuring, monitoring and improving architecture.
• Proactively identifies potential problems that could be remediated by more effective architectural solutions.
• Performs any other related task as required.

Knowledge, and Attributes:

• Excellent business acumen with excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to effectively deal with stakeholders in challenging situations.
• Ability to navigate through complexity and ambiguity.
• Extended knowledge of system architecture, design, and delivery.
• Extended understanding of regulatory requirements and organizational standards.
• Extended knowledge of the system design lifecycle models.
• Extended ability to design systems compatible with cloud computing architectures and selection of components.
• Extended ability to design and select system components.
• Excellent planning and decision-making skills.
• Excellent ability to use a variety of design tools.
• Extended understanding of software development practices, including Agile and CI/CD.
• Extended expertise in containerization technologies, such as Docker/Kubernetes.
• Extended expertise in data security and privacy best practices.
• Extended knowledge of clean code concepts, design patterns, test driven (TDD) and behavioral driven development (BDD).

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field.
• Recommended certifications such as Cloud (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect); TOGAF preferred.

Required experience:

• Extended demonstrated experience in similar IT roles, with a focus on system design / architecture engineering.
• Extended demonstrated working experience in a large-scale organization.
• Extended demonstrated experience, judgment and drive to plan, make decisions and accomplish individual and team goals.
• Extended demonstrated experience with software development lifecycles.
• Extended demonstrated experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Extended demonstrated systems and/or software development experience is essential.
• Extended proficiency in cloud-based architectures, preferably in popular cloud platforms (Azure, AWS).
• Extended proficiency in designing and implementing scalable, distributed, and high-performance systems.
• Extended proficiency in software design and architecture, ideally with experience dealing with large datasets.

Workplace type:

Hybrid Working

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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.

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

• 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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Support for Mission Critical (SfMC) is a specialized Microsoft team that delivers dedicated support to top-tier customers running mission-critical applications. Our customers include enterprises building banking backbones, stock exchanges, and large government systems – organizations that demand the highest levels of reliability, security, and performance. We are looking for a Security Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to join our SfMC team in India. In this role, you will work across multiple Microsoft technologies and products under one roof, providing an excellent support experience to these elite customers. SfMC Cloud Solution Architects typically bring deep expertise in one or two areas, and have the opportunity to broaden their skill set and technical leadership across various technologies (rather than being confined to a single product). You will engage directly with high-profile customers and their senior stakeholders – often under executive visibility – to ensure their critical solutions are secure, resilient, and operating optimally. This is a customer-facing role that requires both broad and deep technical knowledge, exceptional problem-solving abilities, and outstanding communication skills.

• Provide Expert Guidance: Conduct architectural reviews and provide technical guidance to SfMC customers, with a focus on reliability, security, and performance of their mission-critical workloads.
• Own Customer Outcomes: Take end-to-end ownership of technical deliverables for your customers. Ensure solutions align with customer business outcomes and Microsoft's best practices, maintaining a customer-obsessed approach from design through operational health.
• Risk & Design Assessment: Proactively identify architectural risks, design gaps, and operational inefficiencies across customers' services. Recommend and drive improvements to strengthen resiliency and security in their architecture.
• Proactive Engagements: Engage with SfMC stakeholders and customer teams to drive architectural validation, incident prevention, and workload health improvements. Lead deep technical assessments and reviews that anticipate potential issues before they impact the customer.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Microsoft engineering teams and support organizations to resolve escalated issues. Share field insights and customer feedback to influence product improvements, and ensure proposed solutions align with the latest platform capabilities and roadmap.
• IP Creation & Reuse: Develop reusable intellectual property (IP) – such as scripts, tools, automation, and technical documentation – that can be leveraged for scalable engagements across multiple customers. Champion the sharing of best practices and solutions within the team and broader organization.
• Trusted Advisor: Build trusted advisor relationships with customer architects and engineers. Influence their long-term technical strategy by providing thought leadership on stability, resilience, and innovation in their use of Microsoft technologies. Guide customers in adopting a "secure by design" approach and modern best practices for mission-critical systems.

Business Impact:

• Operational Excellence: Identify and anticipate issues in customer environments, advising customers on how to operate and optimize their solutions in line with Microsoft best practices. Apply structured methodologies and governance to communicate and minimize technical and business risks, while adhering to rigorous quality standards in solution design and delivery.
• Accelerating Adoption: Develop strong customer relationships to proactively uncover, escalate, and resolve technical blockers, thereby accelerating cloud consumption and solution implementation. Coordinate with account and support teams to route non-technical issues appropriately. Apply broad architecture knowledge (across Microsoft and third-party solutions) to meet business IT requirements and overcome constraints, often shaping and refining customer requirements in the process.
• Driving Value & Consumption: Leverage deep understanding of Microsoft's product portfolio (and competitor offerings) to identify opportunities for customers to gain additional value. Partner with Customer Success Account Managers and other account team members to drive growth in cloud usage and adoption through cost optimization, performance efficiency, and security enhancements. Lead architecture design sessions, resiliency reviews, and technical optimizations that result in production deployments and increased usage of Microsoft security and cloud solutions. Ensure that customer applications are architected with minimal points of failure. Provide thought leadership during implementation to help customers achieve their business outcomes and to fulfill Microsoft's Customer Promise.
• Industry Leadership: Stay current with industry trends and competitor architectures. Use this knowledge to highlight Microsoft's strengths and unique value propositions in security and reliability. Act as a trusted industry expert, guiding customers in choosing Microsoft solutions over competitors and influencing broader industry direction through your engagements. You will often work under the radar of executive management, so professionalism and strategic insight are key.

• Experience: 9+ years of industry experience architecting, implementing, and/or supporting complex, mission-critical security solutions in Microsoft cloud and hybrid environments. Proven ability to guide customers through secure design, deployment, go-live, and operational support for critical workloads.
• Technical Breadth: Deep expertise in Microsoft security technologies such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft Defender XDR. Familiarity with broader Azure security services (e.g., Azure Policy, Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor) and Microsoft 365 security capabilities is highly desirable.
• Microsoft Stack Knowledge: Strong understanding of core Microsoft platforms and infrastructure, including Azure fundamentals, Windows Server, Active Directory, and PowerShell automation. Ability to integrate and leverage these technologies as part of end-to-end security architectures.
• Strategic Alignment: Familiarity with Microsoft's strategic security initiatives and frameworks, including the Secure Future Initiative (SFI) and the Security Adoption Framework (SAF). Demonstrated commitment to applying secure-by-design and secure-by-default principles, and aligning customer solutions with Microsoft's Zero Trust model and overall security best practices.
• Security Architecture & Supportability: Proven experience reviewing and optimizing security architectures for reliability, performance, and compliance. Ability to assess and mitigate vulnerabilities, implement threat protection strategies, and improve the monitoring and supportability of enterprise environments.
• Problem Solving & Leadership: Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills with a track record of resolving complex technical issues under pressure. Strong technical leadership in driving security initiatives or critical incident response, with the ability to influence, mentor, and guide teams in best practices.
• Architecture Fundamentals: Solid grasp of cloud and hybrid security architecture principles (e.g., defense-in-depth, least privilege, network segmentation). Strong understanding of networking, identity management, and data protection fundamentals, with the ability to design systems for high availability, resilience, and robust threat defense.
• Team Collaboration: Proven ability to work effectively in a global, cross-functional team environment. Comfortable collaborating across time zones and cultures, and working closely with internal engineering, support, and program management teams to deliver unified solutions for customers.
• Adaptability: Highly adaptable and eager to learn new technologies, emerging threats, and industry trends. Willingness to continuously expand technical expertise across different security domains (and to incorporate Microsoft security frameworks like SAF) in response to evolving customer and business needs.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. Able to clearly articulate complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, and confidently lead discussions and presentations with enterprise customers, Microsoft senior leadership, and partners.
• Initiative & Drive: Self-motivated, customer-centric professional with a strong drive to improve services and processes. Demonstrated ability to excel in fast-paced environments, balance multiple priorities, and take ownership of delivering results that align with Microsoft's security vision and the goals of the Secure Future Initiative.
• Certifications: (Mandatory) Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) or Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC Preferred) Additional certifications such as Microsoft SC-900, SC-200, and industry certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CEH, CCSP, GSEC).
• Resource Inventory & Analysis: Skilled in leveraging Azure Resource Graph to query, inventory, and analyse metadata across large-scale cloud environments, supporting governance, compliance, and operational insights.
• Integration & APIs: Hands-on experience automating reporting and integrating telemetry using Microsoft Graph APIs and other programmatic interfaces to streamline security operations and enhance data-driven decision-making.
• Telemetry & Monitoring: Practical experience configuring and managing telemetry pipelines using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics Workspaces, and Diagnostic Settings to enable deep visibility into cloud workloads and infrastructure health

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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.

We are looking to hire a hands-on Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to join our diverse, talented, high performance, and innovative team, focused on driving Infrastructure and Application Migrations via the Cloud Acceleration Factory. The Cloud Acceleration Factory is best suited for individuals that are highly technical, solution focused and have a passion for Project Management. The Cloud Acceleration Factory provides opportunity to drive feedback into Microsoft's core product teams to help improve our platform.

CSAs are senior individual contributors who operate globally and engage directly with customers. It is a hands-on technical and governance role spanning across design, build, and production. Candidates are expected to comfortably switch from a whiteboard to the keyboard. This is a truly exciting role that will feature unique and challenging technical problems to solve and to help our customers succeed.

A Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) within the Cloud & AI Platforms Global Customer Success team focused on Securing the Modernization and Migration of customer workloads on Azure

Customer-Centric Approach:

• Deliver Customer success on the Microsoft Cloud & AI Platforms with a special focus on helping customer migrate and modernize their workloads on Azure.
• Accountable for delivering innovative solutions to meet customer outcomes aligned to their TCO and ROI.
• Provide guidance and recommendations to customer to build resilient and secure solution architecture for their workloads on Azure.

Business Impact:

• End-to-end ownership of Cloud Accelerate Factory (aka Factory) engagements to help customers jumpstart their Azure projects with no-cost deployment assistance.
• Provide Factory delivery oversight which includes being hands-on with delivery based on business requirements.
• Orchestrate effective execution of Partner + Factory delivery to scale reach and impact across all customer segments.
• Provide proactive management of Factory delivery risks through early identification of issues and mitigation.
• Unblock and Accelerate Factory delivery in the assigned territory of coverage.

Technical Leadership:

• Maintain deep technical hands-on delivery skills for the assigned technical workloads, i.e., SQL Iaas, Azure SQL Paas (SQL DB and MI), Azure PostgreSQL, Azure MySQL and CosmosDB. And tools like Azure Migrate and DMS.
• Demonstrate technical depth in delivery by employing best practices and repeated IP to accelerate Factory delivery execution.
• Extract learning, actionable insights from Factory delivery execution by closing the loop with Technical Pillars colleagues to improve IP, offerings and process flows.

Required Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Technology Management.
• 5+ 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 Business Applications consulting OR equivalent experience.
• Passion for technology and customer obsession.
• Displays strong stakeholder and relationship management across senior leaders, partners, and customers.
• Enthusiasm towards leading technologies and motivation to learn and grow.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills in Japanese as well as English.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Multiple Locations, India

Date posted

Sep 24, 2025

Job number

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

0-25%

Role type

Individual Contributor

Profession

Consulting Services

Discipline

Solution Architecture

Employment type

Full-Time

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.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security)
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security)
• OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain
• OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years technical sales experience.
• 6+ years project management experience.
• Technical or Professional Certification in Domain

Pre-Sales Support

• Collaborates in the pre-sale process with internal stakeholders (e.g., Solution Architect, Pursuit Lead, Consulting Account Executive) by providing technical guidance, translating business requirements, or identifying possible existing or new solution offerings to help shape the deal and influence budgetary estimates. Contributes to Solution Review Meeting (SRM). Develops proposals or statement of work (SOW). Directly engages customers and internal teams to influence closing the deal. Actively involves themselves in Technical Quality Assurance (TQA) process.
• Provides input on staffing and skill requirements for delivery to Resource Deployment, Technical Delivery Managers (TDMs), and/or Project Managers.

Technical Delivery

• Follows the capacity process outlined by Resource, Insights, Capacity, and Capability (RICC) team. Maintains tools with up-to-date skills and availability.
• Leads meetings with customers/partners to identify business needs and create a vision. Uses business, industry, and technology strategies to map customer/partner requirements to the adoption and optimization of Microsoft technology solutions. Engages others appropriately to understand and define customer requirements.
• Participates in project planning in projects by collaborating with other subject matter experts in identifying the current and future business value of planned solutions. Assesses technical and business risks in programs and develops mitigations. Manages their schedule and communicates with project leads. Generates and delivers Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
• Provides oversight and leadership on work streams or a partner team to implement solutions. Follows Industry Solutions processes in the implementation process and aligns solutions with the intent of the architecture and meeting customer/partner business goals.
• Manages complex escalations, analyzes situations, and coordinates appropriate resources to resolve issues by following delivery practices, considering cost implications, and engaging in conversations with internal and external stakeholders (e.g., Customer Service and Support, Project Manager, Solution Architect, Product Group) as needed.
• Proactively manages executive-level customer/partner/stakeholder relationships to identify and contribute to the drivers of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, determine the root cause, and establish recovery actions to improve the experience. Works with account team to ensure One Microsoft approach. Shares lessons learned with workgroup and consultant community.

Intellectual Property Management

• Acts as an ambassador in the consumption of intellectual property (IP) by identifying new intellectual property that needs to be developed or refreshed. Updates new versions of the content, reviews IP to be considered for harvest and curation and ensures it is logged for consumption. Contributes to driving a consistent approach of using and managing resources. Improves Industry Solutions offerings quality and collaborates with portfolio and solution teams by providing feedback.

Business Development

• Drives opportunities to expand or accelerate the adoption and consumption of cloud and Microsoft technologies. Collaborates, as appropriate, with peers and other teams (e.g., Sales, account-aligned team) to scale the business with existing high-stake or strategic customers, by articulating/developing value propositions of strategic Microsoft products and services. Drives innovation and digital transformation. Ensures the use of the existing intellectual property (IP).

Readiness

• Learns new technologies or services based on business demands and industry trends. Obtains relevant accreditations and certification(s) as advised by domain leadership team. Identifies certifications and readiness plans in partnership with Worldwide Learning. Leads or participates in relevant technical communities and conducts training sessions to evangelize technology and/or offerings based on availability. Mentors team members and acts as a technical advisor for stakeholders by providing thought leadership, articulation of solutions value, and outcomes of business strategies.

Operational Excellence

• Completes operational tasks and readiness and ensures timeliness and accuracy. Follows Microsoft policies, compliance, and procedures (e.g., Enterprise Services Authorization Policy, Standards of Business Conduct, labor logging, expenses, travel guidelines). Leads by example and guides team members on operational tasks, readiness, and compliance.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• • Architecture Design
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Business Analysis
• Business Knowledge
• Challenger Mindset
• Cloud Platform
• Cloud Security
• Commercial Technology Acumen
• Competitive Analysis
• Consultative Selling
• Creativity
• Data Analysis
• Data Architecture
• Databases
• Decision Making
• DevOps
• Driving Insight-Led Conversations

• Engineering Awareness

• English Language Proficiency

• Enterprise Security
• Executive Presence
• Formal Presentations
• Governance Methodology and Practices
• Innovation & Capability Growth
• Interpersonal Flexibility
• Machine Learning
• Microsoft Products
• Migration Planning
• Network Architecture
• Networking
• Open Source Platforms
• Operational Excellence
• Oral Communication
• Problem Solving

• Project Management

• Relationship Management

• Software Architecture
• Software Engineering Practices
• Stakeholder Management
• Storytelling
• Strategic Technical Planning
• Team Orchestration
• Technical Architecture
• Technical Communication
• Technical Solutions
• Technology Industry Knowledge
• Trusted Technical Advisor
• Written Communications

Technology Areas

• Strong understanding of complex business problems to ensure projects are leveraging the appropriate technology and the technical design.
• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, database migrations, and technology management.
• Experience in moving data from on-premises data platforms to cloud and designing cloud native data warehouse platform.
• Experience working with transactional, temporal, time series, and structured and unstructured data.
• Big Data and Data Warehouses including Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly Azure SQL DW), Snowflake, GCP's Big Query, AWS Redshift, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Explorer
• Advanced Analytics including Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Bricks, data visualization tools (i.e. PowerBI, Tableau)
• Data Science and Machine Learning (i.e. Azure ML, ML Server, TensorFlow, or other similar frameworks)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, storage optimization and query optimizations.
• Experience in delivering/managing lifecycle of software/services using DevOps/MLOps.

Other

• Embody our culture and values

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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Industry leading healthcare

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Educational resources

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Discounts on products and services

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Savings and investments

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Maternity and paternity leave

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Generous time away

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Giving programs

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Opportunities to network and connect

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