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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 Mission Critical (SfMC) is a team delivering dedicated support to Microsoft’s top tier customers using Microsoft technology to build true Mission Critical applications to run their business. These Mission Critical customers are technically savvy and have good expertise in Microsoft technologies they use. The kinds of customers we deal with are companies building the banking backbones, stock exchanges and large government entities. Within the SfMC team, we support multiple technologies and multiple products being used by our customers via a single team. We are building a dedicated team with diversified skill set so we can deliver an excelled support experience to our customers, all under one roof. CSA’s on our team usually come with a depth of experience in one or two technologies. Within SMC, you will have that opportunity to expand your skill set, learn new technologies and grow your leadership in the technology you excel at, all without being isolated into a particular feature of a particular product. You will deal with high profile customers directly under the radar of executive management and may occasionally get an email or two from them directly! 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.
Job Responsibility:
Provide architectural reviews and technical guidance to Support for Mission Critical (SfMC) customers, focusing on the reliability, security, and performance
Take end-to-end ownership and accountability of technical deliverables, ensuring alignment with customer business outcomes and Microsoft’s best practices
Identify architectural risks, design gaps, and operational inefficiencies across services
Engage with SfMC stakeholders to drive architectural validation, incident prevention, and workload health improvements through proactive engagements and deep technical assessments
Collaborate closely with Microsoft engineering and support teams to address escalations, share feedback, and align solutions with platform evolution
Drive creation and reusability of IP including scripts, tools, and technical documentation to support scalable SfMC engagements
Act as a trusted advisor to customer architects and engineers, influencing long-term technical strategy for stability, resilience, and innovation
Identifies and anticipates issues and advises customers/partners to operate and optimize performance in accordance with Microsoft best practices
Drives customer/partner relationships to anticipate, identify, escalate, and work to resolve technical blockers to accelerate consumption and solution implementations
Proactively uses knowledge of the products, services, and value propositions of Microsoft and its competitors in customer/partner conversations to identify growth opportunities
Understands industry trends and the competitor's architecture solutions and identifies Microsoft's strengths over competitive solutions to drive conversations with customers/partners
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
6+ years of Teams/Skype for Business related experience with more than one of the following technologies
6+ years of Teams/Skype related experience with at least 2 of the following: Cloud Products
Experience with Microsoft Server products, and cloud products like Microsoft Teams
Experience with Voice over IP (VoIP) Services
Networking and connectivity to O365 and/or Azure clouds
Experience with supporting, planning and implementation of Office 365 products including Enterprise Voice, Conferencing, client connectivity, UM, and other Teams features
Experience with Messaging and Active Directory Federation Services technologies
Experience with Hybrid Directory Services technologies including ADFS and Azure AD
Knowledge of Office 365 product capabilities, troubleshooting, and monitoring tools
Experience with troubleshooting, configuring, and supporting Hybrid environments
Certification in Microsoft and other Cloud Technologies
Proven troubleshooting skills and experience with Teams and Skype
Ability to develop strategic ongoing customer relationships to gain the trust and respect of customers
Design and review solutions across: SharePoint Online and One Drive for business administration