Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect - Digital App Innovation 

Norway, Oslo 

330899007

As a Cloud Solution Architect you will work with some of the largest Azure projects in the Norwegian market, advising customer and partners to successfully use of the Microsoft Azure services. You will become a Subject Matter Expert in the field of developer related Azure services. Most days will be spent together with customers, delivering a mix of advisory and pre-defined workshops based on Microsoft best practises.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND several 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.

• Several years of experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).

• Technical experience and knowledge in Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management. Proficient in .Net, Java, JavaScript/Node.js or Python development languages and related frameworks.

• Full proficiency in Norwegian and English is crucial.

Preferred Qualifications

• Several years of experience working on technical projects.
  Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).

• Customer Centricity
  • Understand customers’ overall Business and IT priorities and success measures for platform engineering, building cloud applications, AI adoption and Low code opportunities.
  • Acts as the voice of the customer by driving new feedback into engineering, insights on usage and application patterns.
  • Help accelerate solution delivery through Architectural Reviews, Proof of Concepts/MVP applications and environment setup.
  • Support customer skilling by making skilling recommendations or delivering technical discussions, workshops and other cloud readiness activities.
  • Ensure that solution exhibits performance, security, scalability, maintainability and reliability upon deployment.
• Business Impact
  • Consumption (Cloud & Support) growth - Develop opportunities to drive Customer Success business results & help Customers get value from their Microsoft investments.
  • Resolution of Customer Blockers - Identify resolutions to Customer blockers by leveraging subject matter expertise and use internal Microsoft processes for escalations to support and engineering.
  • Drives customer/partner relationships to anticipate, identify, escalate, and work to resolve technical blockers to accelerate consumption and solution implementations.
  • Proactively uses knowledge of the products, services, and value propositions of Microsoft and its competitors in customer/partner conversations to identify growth opportunities based on knowledge of customer/partner needs.
• Technical Leadership
  • Learns new technologies or services that are aligned to customer needs and common patterns seen in Cloud application development. Stay current with the latest Azure, AI and GitHub capabilities, cloud application patterns and be a practitioner of one or more enterprise languages .Net, Python, Java, JavaScript/Node.js, etc. and related frameworks.
  • Shares ideas, insights, and strategic technical input with technical teams and internal communities. Participates in external technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons).
  • Generates new ideas for changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and processes for designated customers/partners. Drives opportunities for IP reuse, best practice sharing, and consumption acceleration.