Microsoft Cloud Solution Architecture - Application Innovation 

Turkey, Istanbul 

413713453

equired/ Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 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.

• This role requires proficiency in written, reading, and conversational English as all business operations as well as customer communications are conducted in English.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Breadth of technical experience and knowledge, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise in two or more of the following Digital and Application Innovation Cloud solutions is required:
  • Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments (including migration of on-premises workloads to the cloud).
  • Extensive technical experience with cloud-native application hosting through software design, development, deployment, and application refactoring/migrations.
  • Familiarity with scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies, Azure functions and logic apps, container orchestration and Kubernetes.
  • Proficiency with software development practices and DevOps using CI/CD tool chains (i.e., Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub).
  • Knowledge of cloud development platforms

• Technical aptitude and experience to learn new technologies and understand relevant cloud trends is required.
• Competitive Landscape: Knowledge of cloud development platforms is preferred.
• Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs is preferred

Customer Centricity

• Understand customers’ overall Business and IT priorities and success measures for platform engineering, building cloud applications, AI adoption and Low code opportunities.
• Act as the voice of the customer by driving new feedback into engineering, insights on usage and application patterns and 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 and 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 and identify resolutions to Customer blockers by leveraging subject matter expertise and use internal Microsoft processes for escalations to support and engineering.
• Drive customer/partner relationships to anticipate, identify, escalate, and work to resolve technical blockers to accelerate consumption and solution implementation and 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

• Learn new technologies or services that are aligned to customer needs and common patterns seen in Cloud application development and 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.
• Share ideas, insights, and strategic technical input with technical teams and internal communities as well as participate in external technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and generate new ideas for changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and processes for designated customers/partners so as to drive opportunities for IP reuse, best practice sharing and consumption acceleration.