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Overview
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.
Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.
The Global Partner Solutions (GPS) team is a sales organization accountable for the commercial partner business at Microsoft, and the mission is to build and sell Microsoft Cloud applications, services and devices with partners, empowering people, and organizations to achieve more.
In this Cloud Solution Architect role you’ll be working with our exciting ISV partners. You'll be guiding ISVs through the discovery and envisioning process, helping them rapidly prototype solutions as well as planning technical implementations. You'll have a strong understanding of the AI landscape including experience with current tools and technologies. A hands on background in software development will be important. This opportunity will allow you to work with the latest Microsoft AI technologies with partners who are creating industry leading solutions.
Through our partners, Microsoft creates solutions which help companies empower their employees, engage their customers, optimize their operations, and transform their products. This opportunity will allow you to focus on Microsoft’s technology priorities and drive penetration of Cloud Solution Area workloads with our most significant partners. You will provide deep technical coaching aiding partners to develop impactful solutions and services for our customers. Leveraging your experience you will validate partners’ technology architecture, assist them to overcome technical blockers, and aid them to win early customers, and realize consumption and usage results from their solutions and services.
Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 4+ 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.
6-10+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales, technology solutions/practice development, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications required Proven track record of building deep technical sales relationships with CXOs and practice building executives in ISV, MSP, CD and Sis.
Ability to solve Partner problems and unblock technical issues, leveraging internal and/or external resources.
Deep understanding of Microsoft Cloud Solution Area products and services, and knowledge of market business environment
Responsibilities
Partner Enablement and Execution
Enablement Execution: Lead and/or contribute to the delivery of workshops, bootcamps, and trainings necessary to build partners’ technical skills
Technical Engagement: Lead deep technical engagements, including; Briefings, Proof of Concepts, Architectural Design Sessions, and Hackathons
Best Practice Sharing: Collaborate with Microsoft’s Engineering teams to generate technical insight and enable best practices sharing
Solution Development: Aid partners to develop and implement high quality solutions and/or services leveraging Microsoft’s latest technologies
Evangelism: Evangelize partners’ practices and solutions in customers’ implementations via Technical briefings and Architecture Review Sessions
Tech Sales: Enable partners on technical pre-sales skills while supporting initial partners’ wins and work to unblock technical issues.
VIC Microsoft IT Jobs 28/03/2024 14/04/2024
