Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect - Developer Advocate 

Germany 

874825776

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND a few years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies and software development/support/consulting
  • OR equivalent experience.

Additional Qualifications:

• Numerous experience working in a customer-facing role (internal and/or external).
• Numerous experience working on software projects (internal and/or external).
• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).
• Microsoft or competitor equivalent (e.g., AWS) certification in relevant developer technologies.
• Proficient in at least one language, e.g. .NET, Java, Golang, Rust, JavaScript or Python with associated frameworks.
• Experience with developer tooling such as Visual Studio, VSCode, Azure DevOps and GitHub and/or competitive tools.

Responsibilities

Customer Centricity

• Define and own the developer-focused technology adoption and its enablement at our customers through customer success plans. That is, understand the customers’ overall business and IT objectives and define how Microsoft’s cloud native, DevOps, AI and low code capabilities support positive customer outcomes.
• Act as the voice of the customer by driving new feedback into engineering and generating new insights on usage and application patterns.
• Coordinate other Microsoft cloud solution architects to ensure that customers can leverage deep subject matter expertise across all technological areas.
• Ensure that customer solutions exhibit in performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and reliability upon deployment.

Business Impact

• Contribute to revenue goals. Land customer-committed workloads in production and support solution deployments through customer-invested enablement packages. While ensuring that customers get the targeted value from their Microsoft investments.
• Drive customer/partner relationships to anticipate, identify, escalate, and work to resolve technical blockers to accelerate consumption and solution implementations.

Technical Leadership

• Learn new technologies or services that are aligned to customer needs and common patterns seen in cloud native application development.
• Share ideas, insights, and strategic technical input with technical teams and internal communities. Participate in external technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons).
• Generate new ideas for changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and processes for designated customers/partners. Drive opportunities for IP reuse, best practice sharing, and consumption acceleration.
• Lead architecture and design discussions with key technical stakeholders at our customers.