Technology Consultant Job at Microsoft Corporation (Singapore)

Job Description

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission. Industry Solutions helps Microsoft customers around the world get the best outcomes from their investments in the latest Microsoft cloud technologies. We focus on empowering customers on their digital journey, from envisioning new possibilities to delivering solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and a great customer experience. Do you have a passion for creating large scale cloud solutions? Are you interested in helping Microsoft customers create & deploy cutting-edge solutions in Microsoft Azure? As a Senior Consultant you will be responsible for delivering high quality solutions and business outcomes based on Microsoft Azure. You will have the opportunity to help us create & deliver the next generation of Azure-based Solutions for our most strategic customers. Our Consulting team offers a collaborative culture where you can contribute your knowledge & experience while learning together as we create cutting-edge cloud solutions for our customers.

Job Responsibility

Works as an Individual contributor or leads the engineering team and provides accurate time estimates, sets work priorities, and makes project changes and trade-offs necessary for a successful release
Applies technical experience and industry-specific knowledge to develop solutions, based on an analysis of how the proposed approach affects the business objectives of customers and partners
Works to accelerate the value proposition of customer or partner engagements by helping to design, develop, and deploy solutions, based on Microsoft technologies and methodologies
Applies information-compliance and assurance policies to ensure stakeholder confidence
Responsible for the overall efficacy and quality of a project team's technical delivery within his or her engagements
Defines dependencies and risks that go beyond the immediate scope and timeframe for a complex project
Develops contingency plans, risk-mitigation implementation criteria, and alternative strategies to manage short- and long-term risks and manages technical escalations
Identifies the best practice approach for a project, across a wide scope of technical issues, and develops or reuses intellectual capital with customers, world-wide, and for programs and initiatives across Microsoft
Drives opportunities to expand or accelerate the adoption and consumption of cloud and Microsoft technologies
Collaborates, as appropriate, with peers and other teams (e.g., Sales, account-aligned team) to scale the business with existing high-stake or strategic customers, by articulating/developing value propositions of strategic Microsoft products and services
Drives innovation and digital transformation
Ensures the use of the existing intellectual property (IP) and improves predictability
Defines the technology strategy for large and complex engagements, so that customers or partners realize the full value of investment
Responsible for implementing the technology strategy
Drives new ways of thinking, across the division and subsidiary, to improve quality, engineering productivity, and responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities

Requirements

At least 8+ years of experience in Customer facing Project delivery leadership experience - involving solution design, project envisioning, planning, development and deployment of complex solutions with minimum of 5 plus years
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent work experience
Technical certifications are a plus (MCSD/MCAD/MCSE/AZ-204/AI-102)
.NET Tools and Technologies
Expertise in leading and delivering digital transformation projects
Exceptional coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns for large, high-scale applications on cloud platforms with focus on performance and resiliency
Extensive experience in implementing, operating, customizing, tuning and troubleshooting large-scale Cloud solutions
Full-stack developer with experience at many layers of the tech stack (native, web, service, UX, model, data) and good proficiency in one or more of C#, JavaScript, Typescript, AngularJS/ReactJS, HTML5, CSS/SCSS
Proven experience in creating reusable framework for application development addressing cross-cutting concerns
Excellence in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures, algorithms with strong testing, debugging and analytical skills
Hands-on experience with multi-threaded/parallel programming, Application design patterns, and anti-patterns, such as MVC, CQRS and/or SAGA
Hands on experience with Application monitoring and end to end telemetry in the cloud
Proficient with one or more Cloud Databases such as Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB
Hands-on experience in implementing micro-services architecture using technologies such as Kubernetes, Service Fabric, Cloud Foundry, Azure Functions
Defining CI/CD pipelines to automate test and release across different application environments using concepts such as Blue/Green and Canary deployments and related technologies
Expertise in security controls such as encryption, AuthN/AuthZ
Expertise in Zero-Trust framework, Secure by Default design, Identity and Access Management (IAM), cloud security architecture, compliance standards, threat modeling, DevSecOps, continuous security improvement
Knowledge of the least privilege access, assume breach, micro-segmentation, continuous monitoring and validation, strong authentication, endpoint security, automated security testing (SAST and DAST), secure CI/CD practices
Expertise with Tools such as Azure Sentinel, Splunk, Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool, Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Experience in Open-source technologies and frameworks are an added plus
Prior experience in Cloud migration, Java, AWS or Google cloud is a definite plus
Knowledge of Azure AI Solutions, Azure AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, GitHub Copilot, and LangChain will be considered a strong differentiator
Industry knowledge in one or more of the following industries: automotive, energy, travel and transportation, financial services, government, health, manufacturing, media & communications, or retail/supply chain

Nice to have

Technical certifications are a plus (MCSD/MCAD/MCSE/AZ-204/AI-102)
Experience in Open-source technologies and frameworks are an added plus
Prior experience in Cloud migration, Java, AWS or Google cloud is a definite plus
Knowledge of Azure AI Solutions, Azure AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, GitHub Copilot, and LangChain will be considered a strong differentiator
Industry knowledge in one or more of the following industries: automotive, energy, travel and transportation, financial services, government, health, manufacturing, media & communications, or retail/supply chain

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