Microsoft Digital Cloud Solutions Architect 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

609778073

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales OR Relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitor platforms AND 3+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales OR 5+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience working directly with Azure or an equivalent cloud platform.
• 3+ years experience in a pre-solutions sales, sales engineer, or combination of technical & sales role with a quota-carrying component.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technical architect, consulting, design and implementation, and/or sales
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience with cloud-based solution designs, migrations and management of technology.

Digital Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $51.15 - $97.88 per hour. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $66.15 - $107.02 per hour.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Proactively engages with and reaches out to customer technical decision makers
and influencers proactively and independently. Utilizes information on customer
business, industry, needs, competitor landscape and key priorities to support
customer's digital transformation, challenge them when necessary, and position
the customer to deliver architectures. Keeps up to date with customer
information, industry and market trends, and compliance regulations.
• Uses knowledge of customer context, cross-solution or portfolio expertise, and
deep technical and market/industry knowledge to build credibility with customers
individually or at scale.
• Leads and ensures technical wins for core and adjacent technologies by leading
technical discussions with customers and establishing rules of engagement (e.g.,
role boundaries, handoff strategies) for extended teams, leveraging knowledge of
processes (e.g., Managed Service Provider, co-sell Partners), tools, and programs
(e.g., FastTrack, End Customer Investment Funds).Searches for customer
references to use in engagements.

• Captures core competitior knowledge across solution areas and delivers back to
product and engineering teams to enhance team capabilities and develop
compete strategies.
• Applies and customizes existing demonstration assets. Demonstrates and
oversees demonstrations (e.g., Architectural Design Sessions, Proof of Concept
sessions) of solutions based on multiple Microsoft products through initial
engagements.

Architecture Design and Deployment

• Receives and synthesizes data about customer/partner business and technical
requirements, addresses them with technical architecture(s), and demonstrates
and proves the capability and value of those solutions through design
collaboration sessions with the customer/partner.
• Drives pilots, proof of concept (POC), and value (e.g., optimizing solutions and
costs) for multiple technical solutions across technology areas to prove the
proposed architecture design. Moves the customer forward from pilots to
productive deployments by rooting pilots in business impact. Appropriately
leverages growth levers (e.g., Azure Credit Offer [ACO]) to ensure successful
adoption of POCs.
• Leads customer/partner projects that implement technical architecture(s).
Provides thought leadership for technical architecture design, development, and
deployment and supports the customer/partner throughout pre-sales and/or
implementation.

• Builds customer timelines to identify and gain buy in on metrics in conjunction
with partners to align with customer's digital transformation initiative and expand
customer success coverage as a discipline. Establishes cadence for checking in
and reporting on people, process and technology progress.
• Acts as the Voice of the Customer by driving new feedback, blockers, insights,
resource (e.g., OneList, End Customer Investment Funds) items across territories
so they can be added and prioritized. Represents the customer to product teams
to shape products and services by providing insights across the territory.

Technical Leadership

• Builds their own readiness plan and proactively identifies learning gaps. Grows
domain knowledge and practices expertise by communicating with customers,
partners, and colleagues to expand knowledge of architecture.
• Shares ideas, insight, and strategic, technical input with team members using
knowledge of Microsoft cloud solutions and their context in the competitor
landscape. Provides thought leadership by acting as role model for the architect
community and consistently sharing knowledge to increase the functional or
technical skills and expertise of peers in ways that impact career goals and
business outcomes.

• Embody our and