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Microsoft aspires to help our customers achieve their own digital transformation, leveraging the power of Microsoft Cloud solutions and services. To this end, Microsoft is investing in a dedicated Customer Success team member that will help the largest and most important companies in the world across all industries successfully adopt Microsoft Cloud solution and services.
We are looking for a talented individual to lead a team of deeply technical Apps & Infra Cloud Solution Architects (CSA) to drive growth of Azure Services for a set of Enterprise accounts across different industries.
Responsibilities
• Hire, on-board, develop, coach, mentor and evaluate CSA. Set a clear bar for excellence. Build a high performing team that will be diverse and inclusive
• Must possess exceptional cross-team collaboration and communication. Partner with all required Microsoft stakeholders in the subsidiary to drive CSA role clarity, account coverage, project assignment and effective cross-team collaboration
• Coach and enable your team to accelerate Azure projects to production, including guidance on architectural design, technical recommendations, blocker escalations and technical resource orchestration
• Ensure your team delivers high quality production deployments that are resilient and successful
• Drive operational excellence, including timely consumption opportunity management and high-quality reporting and insights
Qualifications
Professional
- Experience. 10+ years of experience in technical delivery, engineering or consultative services required
- Management. 7+ years of experience in people management and/or leadership required
- Change. 7+ years of experience driving change management or technical adoption required
- Culture. A growth mindset that embraces change and creates a positive and inclusive work environment is required
- Collaboration. Ability to generate trust, build alliances, and orchestrate interdisciplinary teams to the benefit of customers required
- Communication. Thought leader with executive presence, including the ability to hold CxO and BDM level discussions, exceptional interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills required
Technical
- Proven ability to map the customer’s needs to technical solutions required
- Strong technical understanding of Applications & Infrastructure Enterprise cloud workloads required
- Ability to stay up to date on new/improved Azure scenarios and workloads required
- Empathy, curiosity, and desire to constantly improve, acquire new skills and drive for results required
- Demonstrated Technical leadership through prior technical coaching/leadership roles required
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field preferred
- Certification in the following technologies preferred: Cloud, mobile, web application development, cloud-native application architecture (i.e. containers, microservices, API management), modern software development techniques like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure developer services, GitHub) and container orchestration systems (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Azure Kubernetes Service, GitHub).
Experience
- Prior work experience in other software and/or services companies such as Amazon, VMware, Google, IBM, Oracle desired
- US government (Public Sector) industry experience of 5+ years required with an emphasis in Federal Civilian government preferred
- US Citizenship required
- Active security clearance preferred
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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