Cloud Solution Architect Manager

at  Microsoft Canada

Overview
With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.
The Cloud Solution Architecture Global Delivery team is part of the Global Customer Success (GCS) organization, an organization within CE&S, leading the effort to enable customer success on the Microsoft Cloud by harnessing leading, AI-powered capabilities and human expertise to deliver innovation solutions that accelerate business value, drive operational excellence and nurture long term loyalty.
As a Cloud Solution Architect Manager in CSA Global Delivery, you will lead a team of skilled architects to design and implement innovative cloud solutions for our global clients. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive strategic initiatives and ensure the successful delivery of complex projects. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, and hone your leadership skills. We offer flexible work arrangements, allowing you to work from home partially or fully.
This role is flexible in that you can work up to 100% from home.
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.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, 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 consulting
OR equivalent experience.
3+ years people management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, and/or technical architect managers.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 12+ 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 consulting
OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
OR equivalent experience.
6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
6+ years experience leading technical projects, teams, or functions.
Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).
5+ years people management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, and/or technical architect managers.
Cloud Solution Architecture M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $121,800 - CAD $219,100 per year.
Find additional pay information here: Canada pay information | Microsoft Careers
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 18, 2024.
Responsibilities
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.
Customer Centricity
Provides support and guidance for the team in identifying and evaluating trends and gathering customer/partner insights to map architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer/partner business outcomes.
Represents the voice of the customer (VOC)/partner through escalation across broader teams and with customers, with emphasis on feedback/insights and removing blockers to accelerate value.
Coaches team to represent the customer/partner to internal teams (e.g., Engineering) to shape products and services, and supports the team in providing insights across the territory.
Drives the team to leverage feedback to develop strategic and actionable insights and influence product roadmaps by presenting business cases to program managers.
Shares customer/partner and team member success stories and learnings with the wider internal team.
Supports and guides team in developing and expanding existing impactful relationships with customer and partner architects, C-level technical decision makers (TDMs), and business stakeholders.
Provides coaching on how to build the bridge between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs). Provides coaching to help employees facilitate effective customer conversations and prove the capability and value of solutions through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner. Provides real-time coaching in live customer scenarios to improve team performance and gather insights across customer interactions.
Understands how the team’s work aligns with customer success plans and enables the team to deliver customer outcomes by driving partnerships with the appropriate internal teams/resources.
Builds a strong relationship with peers locally and across the Area by actively participating in account planning, consumption and support planning, and resource planning. Ensures employees are equipped with the capabilities and means to, and oversees others to support customer/partner skilling and identified capability gaps (e.g., skills, capacities) and identify solution/product gaps and provide thought leadership in discussions on technical delivery with internal and external stakeholders to influence customer/partner readiness and adoption and maintenance of technical best practices
Business Impact
Drives adherence to Microsoft standards and recommended practices by setting expectations for the team around methodology and governance to ensure that the team identifies, communicates, and minimizes business and technical risks. 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.
Drives the team to apply business and technical capabilities in complex customer/partner relationships to anticipate, identify, propose resolution, and lead removal of technical blockers through regular technical reviews and check-ins to accelerate consumption and solution implementations and customer outcomes. Identifies patterns in blockers across business areas or a territory. Coaches team on best practices for handling escalations.
Manages the business (e.g., scorecards, forecasting) by delivering against team targets, achieving business metrics, and ensuring the team delivers on Microsoft’s Customer Promise. Holds teams accountable for proactively using deep knowledge of the products, services, and value propositions of Microsoft and its competitors in customer/partner conversations and for developing new solutions to scale across multiple customers/partners while demonstrating the business case and presenting alternative scenarios.
Technical Leadership
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.
Accelerates innovation by coaching teams on building and/or modifying intellectual properties (IPs) rooted in domain expertise and/or industry acumen.
Other
Embody our culture and value

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