Come explore your passions and do amazing work helping Microsoft Partners to capitalize on the Digital Transformation market and to develop Cloud Solutions. Working in our team means you are shaping the world’s largest eco-system of technology companies.

You, as a Cloud Solution Architect, play a critical role in sharing with our partners your expertise and experience in Azure services for Application development. You will help them build their solutions and during the first mile customer engagements by delivering Proof of Concepts, Architectural Design Sessions, Hackathons and Workshops.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.

Responsibilities

Understand the Partner Technical Environment : identify and evaluate industry trends, gather partner insights, and map architecture and digital transformation solutions to partner business outcomes.

Provide Technical Enablement : jointly develop technical enablement plan for partners. Lead and or contribute to the delivery of Training, Workshops and Bootcamps necessary to build the technical skills and expertise of our partners.

Design Architecture : leverage and champion an existing architecture approach to achieve Microsoft's agreed commitments to the partner. Propose and develop new solutions to scale across multiple customers while demonstrating the business case and presenting alternative scenarios. Understand complex technical requirements and address them with win-win technical architecture. Provide thought leadership for technical architecture design, development, and deployment and drives the partner throughout pre-sales and/or implementation. Anticipate, identify, and remove technical blockers. Apply methodologies, best practices, and governance to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks.

Be a Trusted Advisor : develop and expand existing impactful relationships with partners, C-level technical decision makers, and business stakeholders, providing direction to them. Influence partners in technical and architectural areas.

Collaborate with others : lead virtual teams around technologies and partner challenges by sharing ideas and insight with technical teams and internal communities. Act as a mentor to multiple peers and lead initiatives to improve processes and drive efficiency. Participate in external events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs) and share learnings with internal teams.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure Technologies.

• 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 cloud/infrastructure technologies.

• Strong expertise on app development technologies and practices: languages (.Net, Java), DevOps, DevSecOps, Containers, Developer Velocity, also Observability and Load Testing.

• Strong presentation skills to communicate and to provide training for diverse groups, with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences.

• Travel required: 25%-30%

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years technical sales experience.

• 3+ years applying Agile practices.

• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure).

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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .