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Microsoft Industry Solutions Delivery is a global organization hosting over 6,000 strategic sellers, industry and security experts, elite engineers, world-class data scientists and architects, consultants, and delivery specialists. Together with our partners, we help Microsoft’s most strategic customers worldwide to address their specific challenges and provide comprehensive and industry-specific solutions that meet their unique needs. Our organization is at the forefront of innovation, driving value across the entirety of the customers’ digital and AI transformation journey through repeatable and customized cutting-edge solutions powered by Microsoft Cloud and AI.
Job Responsibility:
Translate the client’s business requirements into specific systems, applications, or process designs for very large complex technology solutions and architectures
Act as an advocate for the client as the ultimate authority on the architecture designed to address client business problems
Provide direction for design activities, often project-based, sometimes working at customer sites
Gather customer/partner insights from a broad range of stakeholders to shape and form both the definition and ongoing execution of projects
Define and document the architecture to communicate the value proposition of the business solution along with the project approach
Collaborate with the Project Manager to jointly drive project/technical governance of the design, build, and deployment into use
Work with the business sponsor and customer/partner stakeholders to gather and ratify requirements and constraints
Collaborate with the Account Team and/or Bid Team to understand the business solution/problem
Hold teams accountable for mapping architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer/partner business goals
Support teams in working with customer/partner stakeholders (e.g., Enterprise Architects, Security Team, Development Team, Operations Team) and business sponsor to socialize both the business solution and the project approach
Drive internal advocacy by facilitating insight sharing with Product Engineering teams, and providing guidance through escalation, acceleration, and prioritization
Guide the team in cost-based and technology-based discussions to explain the architecture in terms of its build, deployment, and ongoing operational use to determine customer appetite for the business solution and promote a business-value approach that values return on investment (ROI) and customer costs-savings over technical ease of execution
Ensure the team builds and documents a realistically costed, advanced/complex solution approach and that issues and blockers are addressed by the appropriate groups
Connect gaps and patterns across business and technology areas to drive changes and/or the re-use of intellectual property and recommends practices in both pre-sales and deliver
Act as an advisor to external stakeholders and provide direction to facilitate relationships between others and coach your team to use evidence-based arguments that articulate complex concepts in a simple manner to respectfully challenge Microsoft and customers/partners when a decision or course of action will not produce optimal results
Foster community sharing of stories and leveraging of pre-existing resources by encouraging and empowering team to share learnings and by establishing a cadence to calibrate on challenges and trends that impact the team across the subsidiary level as well as participate in external architect community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and share learnings with internal team
Requirements:
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
6+ years technical sales experience
6+ years project management experience
2+ years managing multiple projects or portfolios
1+ year(s) experience leading blended, multidisciplinary teams