Cloud Solution Architect Manager at Microsoft

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

17 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

19 Nov, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Cloud Technologies, People Management, Coaching, Technical Strategy, Governance, Collaboration, Innovation, Mentorship, Learning Culture, Business Value, Trusted Advisorship, Situational Fluency, Insightful Listening, Technical Readiness, Architecture, Problem Solving

Industry

Software Development

Description

People Management Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles. Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn. Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual's capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others. Ensure that solution exhibits high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, repeatability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment. Ensures governance of technical work, including robust architectures that are validated and delivered in line with best practices. Ensures that teams leverage standard tools to maintain accurate opportunity and milestone execution and pipeline hygiene. Fosters a continuous technical self-learning culture and community sharing of stories by encouraging and empowering the team to share learnings, and by establishing a cadence (e.g., internal technical brainstorming calls, presenting latest challenges in staff meetings) to calibrate on challenges and trends that impact the team and other peer teams. Leverages market insights to assist leadership in defining area vision by identifying relevant areas in which to drive up-skilling. Contributes to technical strategy for the business. Role models effective technical readiness and influences team to drive their own technical readiness. Drives and engages others to adapt to changes aligned with solution areas/services priorities, and encourages team to build skills relevant to their market. Acts as a mentor to colleagues by educating them on technical and non-technical concepts and sharing best practices. In partnership with the learning lead, removes blockers to support learning across teams. Models how to engage constructively and transparently with the technical and/or business community locally and globally. Participates in management communities (e.g., manager excellence community) to evolve adaptive engines of change and foster a culture of fast and effective learning at all levels. Fosters collaboration across teams (e.g., account teams, product teams) and solution area communities. Accelerates innovation by coaching teams on building and/or modifying intellectual properties (IPs) rooted in domain expertise and/or industry acumen. Coaches the team to connect gaps and patterns across business and technology areas, and drives changes and improvements to existing IP, technologies, and/or processes that enable solutions to scale across customers/partners, and drives opportunities for IP reuse and best practice sharing. 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 Business Applications consulting OR equivalent experience. English: Daily conversational level Japanese: Business level Business Value: The ability to convey the business needs and value of proposed solutions, plans, and risks to stakeholders and decision makers. This includes the ability to persuade and inform based on facts and alignment with goals and strategy. Trusted Advisership: The ability to build trusted advisor status and deep relationships across stakeholders (e.g., technical decision makers, business decision makers) through an understanding of customer needs and technologies. Situational fluency: Using self-awareness as a mechanism to interpret verbal and non-verbal cues to increase your ability to "read the room." Insightful listening: asking insightful questions to understand the customer needs, issues, business environment and drivers, and going beyond what customer said. 6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external). 3+ years people management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, and/or technical architect managers.

Responsibilities

The Cloud Solution Architect Manager is responsible for delivering success through empowerment and accountability, ensuring high levels of performance and governance in technical work. They foster a continuous learning culture, drive innovation, and mentor team members while collaborating across various teams.