Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect - Infrastructure 

Germany 

881593098

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degreein Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field
• Multiple years ofexperience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting

Additional qualifications:

• The ability to convey the business needs and value of proposed solutions, plans, and risks to stakeholders and decision makers. This includes the ability to persuade and inform based on facts and alignment with goals and strategy.
• Trusted Advisership: The ability to build trusted advisor status and deep relationships across stakeholders (e.g., technical decision makers, business decision makers) through an understanding of customer needs and technologies.
• Situational fluency:Using self-awareness as a mechanism to interpret verbal and non-verbal cues to increase your ability to "read the room."
• Insightful listening:asking insightful questions to understand the customer needs, issues, business environment and drivers, and going beyond what is said
• Technical experience and knowledgein Well Architected Framework/Cloud Adoption Framework (WAF/CAF), Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management
• Chemicals, Energy or Financial industry experience will be beneficial

You will be responsible for:

• • Customer Satisfaction -Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates. Be the Voice of the Customer; Share insights and best practices and connect with Engineering teams to remove blockers.
  • Customer/Partner Insights: Provide feedback & insights from customers/partners back to the relevant MS teamsincluding Product Groups, to enable continuous improvement.
• Business Impact
  • Delivery Excellence- Own committed pipeline and ensure delivery in alignment with customer expectations.
  • Consumption (Cloud & Support) growth: Develop opportunities to drive Customer Success business results byworking with technical decision makers to ensure they understand Microsoft's Azure Infrastructure value proposition and get value from their investment in the Microsoft technology.
  • Architecture Design and Deployment - Run Architectural Design Sessions to build plan for implementing solution –governing design in line with customer business goals and their technical environment. Use CAF Landing Zones to rapidly enable migrations and help build customer resiliency.
  • Resolution of Customer Blockers:Identify resolutions to issues blocking go-live of customer success projects by leveraging Azure Infrastructure technical subject matter expertise

• Technical Leadership
  • Learn It All: Demonstrate Self Learner mindset through continuous alignment of individual skilling to team/area demands and Customer Success goals​
  • Accelerate customer outcomes: Engage in relevant communities to share expertise, contribute to IP creation, prioritize IP re-sure and learn from others to help accelerate your customers transformation journey