Cloud Solution Architect - SAP

at  Microsoft

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of Microsoft’s end-to-end customer experience. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers come to us not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, but also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience.
In the Customer Success team, we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Cloud Solution Architect, you will drive the deployment of SAP Landscapes onto the Azure platform to a successful customer outcome. Act as a Subject matter expert for running SAP workloads on Azure, and support customer/partner deployments with SAP deployment guidance, supporting development of the customers’ SAP on cloud adoption model. Develop and review technical architecture and solution design for partner-led solution development. Ensure that solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment. Provide thought leadership regarding application design, architecture, and integration. Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects in developing complex end to solution for Enterprise scale solutions on Microsoft Azure platform, leveraging other skills like Analytics. Maintain (and advance) deep technical skills and knowledge, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights and share within the technical community. Be a Voice of Customers to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers. Assess the Customers’ knowledge of SAP on Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners. Create ROM and help Specialists in creating Proposal and responding customer RFPs.
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QUALIFICATIONS

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 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.

ADDITIONAL OR PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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.
• Experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
• Experience leading technical projects.
• Technical Certification in Cloud (Azure) and:-
• Experienced in either a direct customer or customer facing SAP Infrastructure Architecture roles.
• Experience of SAP transformation projects and successful transitions to implementation support teams
• Deep technical expertise in SAP Infrastructure design, preferably with a level of hands-on deployment / PoC delivery.
• Demonstrable SAP architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications (i.e. having an architectural sense for ensuring availability, reliability, etc.).
• Experience in migrating on premise workloads to the cloud would be advantageous.
• Proven track record of building technical relationships with senior executives and working with large or highly strategic customers
• Ability to drive decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication.
• Demonstrable success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects (where necessary, managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects).
• Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a hardware, software and/or services company and/or experience from delivery as and end customer.
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