Job Description
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To further build up this team Microsoft Services is looking for Senior Architects to help drive the strategic topics like smart connected things, new mobile experiences or artificial intelligence leveraging the capabilities of the cloud.
The ideal candidates should bring a mix of advanced technology and strategic business acumen. This role requires both broad and deep technology knowledge across Microsoft and non-Microsoft products, technologies, and the ability to provide strategic technical direction and technical leadership to customers and colleagues. It is involved in business and technical risk management as well as the entire IT services lifecycle, with a broad focus on technical talent, consistent delivery, innovation and technology alignment.
Are you ready to become part of this team and take over a big challenge?
Key Responsibilities
Business Alignment and Strategy Activities
• Defines an end-to-end approach across the different organization within Microsoft Services from strategy consulting to support services.
• Influences business and technical strategy in collaboration with appropriate parties to advance Enterprise Services Germany as a growth business and industry thought leader
• Drives landing of new technologies in cooperation with the Microsoft engineering teams
Customer Facing and Quality Activities
• Supports strategic opportunities in the areas of key industry trends like cloud, new mobile experiences or artificial intelligence during deal pursuit and delivery to maximize and win-rate and minimize implementation risk
• Ensures alignment of presales and delivery activities with the Microsoft technology strategy as defined above
• Provides oversight and assistance to critical engagements and helps ensure that required technical and business criteria are met on critical projects.
• Oversees and supports execution of quality measures for large/complex opportunities and engagements
IP Reuse and People Development Activities
• Recommends and sponsors Intellectual Property reuse and generation activities
• Provides leadership for technical communities
• Mentors other technical roles and grows technical talent
Qualifications
• Must have a degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Multi-Year work experience should involve a significant subset of pre-sales support, technical consulting, solution design, project envisioning, planning, deployment, operations/support and management.
• Proven track record of “business value of technology” conversations with business decision makers
• Work experience should include demonstrated technical depth in one or more of the key technology trends: cloud, data science/artificial intelligence, internet of things, new mobile experiences and a good proficiency in the other areas.
• Deep familiarity with the technical characteristics and business benefits of cloud computing
• Deep familiarity with Microsoft technology portfolio.
• Familiarity in competing technologies such as Amazon, Google, IBM etc..
• Candidates should have a good understanding of the business fundamentals of the IT services business (consulting, support, operations).
• Candidates must have industry leading breadth knowledge of subject area, and have demonstrated analysis and communication skills connecting technology and business problems.
• Willing to work in a high performance team in a constantly evolving technology and business environment.