OVERVIEW

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centred on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.
Industry Solutions helps Microsoft customers around the world get the best outcomes from their investments in the latest Microsoft cloud technologies. We focus on empowering customers on their digital journey, from envisioning new possibilities to delivering solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and a great customer experience.
Do you have a passion for creating large scale cloud solutions? Are you interested in helping Microsoft customers create & deploy cutting-edge solutions in Microsoft Azure?
As a Cloud Solution Architect you will be responsible for delivering high quality solutions and business outcomes based on Microsoft Azure. You will have the opportunity to help us create & deliver the next generation of Azure-based Solutions for our most strategic customers. Our Consulting team offers a collaborative culture where you can contribute your knowledge & experience while learning together as we create cutting-edge cloud solutions for our customers.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Need to have a deep technical background with 5+ years of technology-related experience, along with 3+ years of Microsoft Azure (Experience on AWS or GCP will be an added advantage). Require in depth expertise in at least one of the following functional areas:

• Proven experience in cloud infrastructure, including migration of workloads such as Windows, SQL, Linux, and PostgreSQL.
• Strong understanding of Azure services, including security, compliance, and hybrid cloud scenarios.
• Designing and implementing Azure Landing Zones.
• Knowledge of one or more of the following: Azure PowerShell, CLI, Visual Studio, ARM, Bicep or Terraform.
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps and Infra-as-Code (IaC).

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• 5+ years of working in a customer-facing role.
• Experience in working as part of a delivery team.
• Ability to communicate with a variety of different audiences and strong presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to match technical solutions with customer business requirements.
• Ability to effectively recognize and adapt to change.
• Ability to quickly build relationships and credibility with customers.
• A passion for learning about and experimenting with new technologies.
• Ability to build trust to drive change with customers.
• Work with customers to identify business requirements.
• Architect and implement innovative solutions using the most recent technologies.
• Continually learn and grow professionally.
• Take a leadership role on projects.
• Mentor other Consultants to share your knowledge and experience.
  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

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Demonstrate the ability to articulate value propositions for the most strategic Microsoft products and services and uses business, technology and industry strategies to define customer/partner requirements and constraints
• Demonstrate expertise in a specific solution, or several products, feature functions, or services and drive opportunities to accelerate the adoption of the Microsoft Cloud
• Drive and support innovation focusing on industry solutions and customer business outcomes on the Microsoft platform
• Ensure solutions align with the intent of the architecture allowing for clear build test specifications and development of operations guides for the customer
• Identify business and technical risks in programs, assesses their impact and proposes mitigations and contingencies
• Provide stakeholder assistance throughout deployment to avoid/resolve technical issues
• Balance Configure-Before-Customize principles with the goals of maximum customer/partner value and with the use of Microsoft core/baseline assets, people, products and tools and develop project plans that use the full project life cycle accounting for current & future business value of each solution while defining all technical dependencies for project