Organizations are in a constant state of change due to the emergence of new technologies like AI, Quantum and Cloud. Supporting this innovation requires the highest level of trust in the technology, strategy and secure implementation.
The Microsoft Innovation Hub, located in the heart of Brussels, is a premium customer-facing facility enabling enterprise customers to solve their business challenges towards a secure and trusted innovation journey.
Today, the Innovation Hub in Brussels is looking for an experienced cybersecurity architect who understands cybersecurity maturity models, zero trust architecture implementations, cyber- and/or information security related solutions and how they integrate within an overall enterprise architecture.
The preferred candidate will work with customer’s CISO, DPO as well as security analysts in strategizing and architecting solutions that cover the customer’s questions around security, privacy and compliance.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Significant technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• Structured facilitator. Validated customer experience in requirements capture; prioritization; capturing evidence and impact to quantify business value; issue, risk and constraint identification
• proficiency in Dutch or French will be preferred
• Technical breadth. Intermediate level experience across the full range of Microsoft cloud solutions – Azure infrastructure, Azure Developer, Azure data, artificial intelligence, business applications, modern workplace and productivity, security, business applications. Demonstrated experience of solution architectures which span multiple workloads
• Design Thinking. Proven experience of delivering design thinking; ‘ideation’; or similar context analysis / problem framing.
• Technical depth. Experience as a solutions architect, security researcher, incident responder or equivalent in the area of Microsoft’s security toolset or major competitive security technologies. An understanding of the broader Microsoft Cloud technology stack and how it complements the security components. Design of security architectures that are aligned to regulatory and governance models. Advanced industry security certifications such as CISSO, GSE or similar
  Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations

As a Senior Architect in the Microsoft Innovation Hub, you will be working at the forefront of Microsoft innovation, helping customers create and implement a vision and strategy for their digital transformation. You will be an integral part of their transformation journey, challenging their ways of thinking and helping them realize and adopt the benefits of our Cloud. Part of a world-wide community of exceptional peers, you’ll have access to the latest software and hardware, and you’ll be given the time and budget to develop as a globally influential technical leader. This role is Microsoft onsite only.

• Deliver customer engagements: Based in the Brussels Hub, you will prepare and deliver technical engagements to enterprise customers. These include Business envisioning, Solution envisioning, Architecture design and Rapid prototypes. You take a cross-solution view to leverage capabilities across the entire Microsoft cloud platform. You will work collaboratively with account teams to determine the best engagements for a given opportunity to maximize customer benefit and accelerate deals success.
• Solution design: Using your technical knowledge, architectural approach, consultancy skills and our methodology to win a customer’s technical decision to buy and use Microsoft solutions and cloud services.
• Set vision: You will use your technical knowledge to show customers an inspiring digital vision, across all Microsoft workloads, as well as deeper engagement in your core technology specialism. You will make this digital vision real using the architecture skills of you and your peers to provide a complete solution.
• Build strategy: You will map the agreed customer vision into a strategy for implementation, resolving concerns, removing technical blockers, and validating a strong business case for investment. You will work with the customer, wider account team resources and our partners to orchestrate a roadmap for implementation.
• An expert in security: Guide business and technical decision makers on increasing compliance, reducing risk, and creating business value on top of the Microsoft Security platform. Synthesize business and technical architecture requirements. Serve as the as the go-to technical expert in the security space for the regional sales team. Working with other security organizations in Microsoft to generate and reuse content; accelerate customer adoption and influence prioritization of solution development. The opportunity to deliver speaking engagements evangelizing Microsoft Security in business conferences.