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With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers’ expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft’s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world. Support for Mission Critical is a team within Microsoft that provides solution-specific expertise designed to drive peak health and optimum performance of a customer’s most important solutions. As a key technical resource for the customer, Cloud Solution Architect - Data Analytics will be primarily focused on delivering proactive services such as education workshops, delivering assessments, and providing tailored guidance. Troubleshooting skills are essential as this role will include working with Microsoft Support to expedite incident resolution.
Job Responsibility:
Plan and deliver proactive and reactive support including onsite presence as needed (post Covid restrictions).
Work within a larger virtual account team to strengthen customer relationships and work on mobile-first, cloud-first strategies for immediate and long-term service delivery plans.
Identify and manage goals and opportunities across Big Data platform to improve the health, performance, and availability.
Drive and participate in proactive delivery management, spot performance issues, analyze problems, and provide solutions to meet customer needs.
Work with support teams, account teams, product engineering teams and other stakeholders to ensure a streamlined customer experience.
Apply lessons learned for continuous process and delivery improvement for the customer.
Engage in meetings with customers and account teams to articulate service offerings.
Share and gain knowledge through communities.
Contribute to on-call rotations to ensure a high quality of service for critical incidents created by Support for Mission Critical customers.
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, 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.
4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
4+ years experience working on technical projects.
Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).
Technical depth in one of the following Data Analytics and AI Platform Cloud solutions: NoSQL Databases including OSS (Maria, Mongo etc), CosmosDB
Big Data including Azure Synapse, Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift
Machine Learning including Azure ML, ML Server
Artificial Intelligence including BOT framework, Cognitive Services, Cognitive Search
Expertise in data estate workloads like HDInsight, Hadoop, Cloudera, Spark, Python
Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort presenting to a variety of audiences.
Experience in systems deployment, network operations, or IT consulting.
Working experience with Microsoft Cloud based solutions in large enterprise environments.
Ability to handle customer critical issues and work in difficult situations.
Demonstrate a strong ability to develop strategic ongoing customer relationships to gain the trust and respect of customers.
Excellent customer service skills, good oral and written communication skills, proven ability to handle difficult and sensitive situations involving the most critical and politically charged customer situations, lead projects and motivate others.
Certification in Microsoft and other Cloud Technologies.
Nice to have:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting