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The Cloud Solution Architecture role involves gathering customer insights, mapping architecture, and proposing digital transformation solutions based on Microsoft technologies. 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. We achieve this by offering our customers value through adaptable and efficient delivery methods, all underpinned by standardized processes.
Job Responsibility:
Gathers customer/partner insights, 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
Represents the customer/partner to internal teams to shape products and services
Advocates for the customer/partner and shares customer success stories
Guides other team members to focus on customer/partner experience through efficient delivery
Supports definition of customer/partner conditions of success
Anticipates customer/partner dissatisfaction and unmet needs and executes strategies to improve experience
Actively listens and respectfully challenges customers/partners when going in the wrong direction
Drives customer/partner relationships to anticipate, identify, escalate, and work to resolve technical blockers
Applies broad business and technical knowledge across various architecture or other Microsoft solutions to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements
Proactively uses knowledge of the products, services, and value propositions of Microsoft and its competitors to identify growth opportunities
Contributes to increase in consumption and aligns with Customer Success Account Management on customer/partner priorities
Drives architecture design, resiliency reviews, and technical optimization
Consults and provides thought leadership for technical solution design, development, and deployment
Understands industry trends and the competitor's architecture solutions
Demonstrate the capability to act as CSA Pod Lead with ability to drive planning and delivery of Pod team
Proactively develops technical and professional learning and development plan
Acts as a mentor and role model to less experienced colleagues
Shares ideas, insights, and strategic technical input with technical teams
Participates in external technical community events
Generates new ideas for changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and processes
Should have potential to scale as CSA Pod Lead with ability to lead planning and delivery of vendor Pod team
Manage customer relationship by conducting monthly engagement reviews and assuring quality and be accountable for capacity planning, hiring, skilling and utilization of Pod members
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, 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, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
Technical Certification on CRM and ERP (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365)
Prior experience on Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement and Power Platform
Nice to have:
Experience on additional modules such as Dynamics 365 Sales, Service, and Marketing is a big plus