Cloud Solution Architect

3 weeks ago

Auckland City, New Zealand Microsoft Full time

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 (CSA) reporting to the Cloud Solution Architect Manager you will enable SMC (Small, Medium, and Corporate) customers to achieve their outcomes, based on their investments in Microsoft technology. Leveraging your leading technical team’s expertise, you will drive the team to ensure customers get value from their Microsoft investments.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

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.

**Responsibilities**:
We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Cloud Solution Architect (CSA - Modern Work) to drive customer transformation in our Solutions. You will own the customer engagements, including architecture, implementation, and production.

Key responsibilities include:

- Understanding Customer/Partner Technical Environment (Insights about Customer/Partner and Industry): Gather customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and map architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer/partner business outcomes. Adapt business models, plans, and solutions to insights.
- Understanding Customer/Partner Technical Environment (Internal Advocacy): Act as the voice of the customer (VOC)/partner by driving new feedback, gaps, blockers, insights, resources, etc. across communities to track, add, and prioritize, using established channels (e.g., UAT/TFT).
- Architecture Design and Deployment (Structured Approach): Leverage and champion an existing architecture approach to achieve Microsoft's agreed commitments to the customer/partner. Identify growth opportunities based on knowledge of customer/partner needs.
- Architecture Design and Deployment (Architecture Proposals): Receive and synthesize data about customer/partner business and technical requirements, address them with technical architecture(s), demonstrate and prove those solutions capability and business value through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner.
- Architecture Design and Deployment (Pre-Sales and/or Implementation Leadership): Lead customer/partner projects that implement technical architecture(s). Provide thought leadership for technical architecture design, development, and deployment and supports/drives the customer/partner throughout pre-sales and/or implementation.
- Architecture Design and Deployment (Resolving Blockers): Identify, escalate, and work to resolve technical blockers (e.g., changing configurations, sample coding) to accelerate architecture implementations and routes non-technical issues for removal by the appropriate party.
- Practice Development: Generate new ideas for changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and processes for designated customers/partners. Drive opportunities for IP re-use, best practice sharing, and consumption.
- Trusted Advisor (Relationship Building): Develop and expand existing impactful relationships with customer and partner/MCS architects and technical specialists, technical decision makers and business stakeholders.
- Trusted Advisor (Challenger Mindset): Respectfully challenge customers/partners when going in the wrong direction and escalate appropriately.
- Trusted Advisor (Competitor Insights/ Differentiated Value Proposition): Understand the competitor's architecture solutions and identify Microsoft's strengths over competitive solutions to drive conversations with customers/partners and convince them of solution.
- Thought Leadership (Internal Education): Share ideas, insight, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using a thorough knowledge of specific Microsoft products and their context in the competitive landscape.
- Thought Leadership (External Presence): Participate in external architect community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and share learnings with the internal team. Act a mentor to junior colleagues to educate them on technical and non-technical co

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