Microsoft Digital Cloud Solution Architect 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

240803030

• 8+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales

• 5+ years experience with cloud-based solution designs, migrations and
management of technology.

• 3+ years of experience in pre-sales and in a direct quota carrying role.

OR Relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms AND
8+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and
implementation, and/or technical sales in a quota carrying role.

OR equivalent extertise and experience.

• 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
o OR equivalent experience.

• Proactively engages with and reaches out to customer technical decision makers
and influencers proactively and independently. Utilizes information on customer
business, industry, needs, competitive 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.
• Leverages knowledge of resources (e.g., roles, Microsoft Technology Center,
demo sites, virtual sites) with limited managerial support and proactively engages
product and support teams (e.g., engineering) to remediate blockers by
conveying impact.
• Understands team resources and supports efforts to maximize the impact of
customer engagements through capacity planning, prioritization, capabilities
assessment, and utilization of resources. Receives instructions to prioritize
resources and works to maximize selling time to achieve scorecard objectives and
subsidiary strategy as directed.
Scale & Collaboration
• Captures core competitive 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• Monitors and analyzes action plans to promote customer usage of key/prioritized
Microsoft solutions/products that support customer’s business outcomes.
Identifies opportunities to promote usage.
• Applies the orchestration model to proactively drive deal closure by identifying
and aligning internal stakeholders and leveraging and expanding relationships
with partners.• 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.
• Identifies, escalates, and works to resolve technical blockers (e.g., changing
configurations, sample coding) to accelerate architecture implementations, and
routes non-technical issues for removal by appropriate party.
• Adapts methodology and applies governance to identify, communicate, and/or
minimize business and/or technical risks, defines customer/partner conditions of
success, adheres to quality assurance, and calculates risks whilst designing and/or
delivering solutions.
• Builds their own readiness plan and proactively identifies learning gaps. Grows
domain knowledge and practices expertise by communicating with customers,
partners, and senior 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 competitive
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.
• Monitors and responds to internal and external tech community posts, attends
community calls, sessions, hackathon, etc., and acts as a mentor for their
technology area. Contributes and participates in Customer Executive Briefing
Center sessions. Shares best practices internally on community calls and drives
recognition of Microsoft Cloud solutions through presentations and
engagements with external audiences.
• Conducts group training or one-to-many events (e.g., workshops, webinars) to
present and educate customers and colleagues on the capabilities and benefits
across Microsoft solutions/products. Ensures customer cloud platform
enablement by gaining buy in at the C-level for cloud platform readiness and
orchestrating various resources within Microsoft, partner, and customer resources
to get them on board with Microsoft's cloud platform environment readiness
initiative.
Other
• Embody our culture and values