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Microsoft Architect
India, Karnataka, Bengaluru
36004744

10.09.2024

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

Microsoft Services India Global Delivery delivers end-to-end solutions by enabling accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies. We are looking for exceptional architects who have passion to lead large complex innovative programs for customers.

Architect is a critical role in the solution implementation lifecycle cutting across all phases. Architects are technical leaders with a strong understanding of technology and the ability to apply it to drive business outcomes. Architects lead solution architecture, help with technical design, and provide technical governance throughout the lifecycle of Azure Cloud based solutions. Architects have a passion for the customer which is demonstrated through professionalism and striving for excellence in all aspects of the customer experience.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+years experiencein technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security)

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 6+years experiencein technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security)
OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 20+years experiencein technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+years experiencein technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain
OR equivalent experience.

6+ years technical sales experience.

6+ years project management experience.
Technical or Professional Certification in Domain

Other Qualifications

Inclusive and collaborative – driving teamwork and cross-team alignment.
Strong partner relationship management and solution development skills.

Conversant knowledge of competing platforms and solutions.
Proventrack recordof building deep relationships with CXOs
Strong executive presence including communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort to large and small technical audiences.
Problem solving mentalityleveraginginternal and/or external resources, conflict resolution, and follow through with partners.
Orchestration of application development lifecycle.

Experience in vertical industries, proven by projects/solutions implemented with substantial business processes covering Financial and Insurance, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Healthcare/Life Sciences, Retail, or other business to consumer industry scenarios.
Demonstrable architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of complex application architectures
Candidates must alsodemonstrateabilityto adapt tonew technologies, learn quickly, and understand relevant cloud trends isrequired.

Responsibilities

- Lead client engagements from definition through delivery to ensure technical transformation success for our customers.
- Collaborate with enterprise customers to scope and define requirements,architectand design solutions, develop, and deliver transformational, customized industry solutions and services.
- Ensure all solutionsexhibithigh levelsof performance, security, scalability, maintainability, repeatability,appropriatereusability,and reliability upon deployment
- Develop deep relationships with key customer decision makers (both Business and IT) who drive long-term innovation and transformation to our customers product roadmap.
- Be a Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers and drive product improvements.
- Proactivelyidentifyopportunities for integrating modern architecture patterns and emerging technical solutions into the current design
- Evaluate,identify,mitigateandeliminaterisk,provideguidance, and propose immediate solutions
- Comfortable and effective communicator with all stakeholders, including senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, Developers, Data Scientists, and IT Management
- Lead deep technical architecture discussions and development of POCs
- Work with multiple customers to create Proof of concepts (POCs) /MinimumViable Products (MVPs) etc. and guide customers to production deployment and operationalization.
- Apply technical knowledge andexpertiseto architect and design solutions that meet business and IT needs, create solution roadmaps, drive POCs and MVPs, and ensure long term technical viability of new deployments, infusing key technologies where appropriate
- Collaborate with other Architects and technology stakeholders to develop complex end-to-end Enterprisegradesolutions.
- Create exceptional cross-team collaboration and communication. Partner with all required Microsoft stakeholders and partners to drive role clarity, account coverage, project assignment and effective cross-team collaboration
- Ensure delivery of high-quality production deployments that are resilient and successful
- Coach and enable your team members to accelerateinnovation programsto production, including guidance on architectural design, technical recommendations, blocker escalations, and technical resource orchestration.

Application Development

experiencedin implementing,operating, customizing,tuningand troubleshootingCloudsolutions.
Designing scalable solutions on cloud platforms with focus on performance and resiliency, utilizing microservices architectures
Engineering distributed applications within architectural scenarios such as Web and IoT
Application design patterns, and anti-patterns, such as MVC, CQRS and/or SAGA

Interacting with and querying databases and/or NoSQL datastores
Application monitoring and end to end telemetry
Containers for packaging application deployment units and interacting with container-orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, Service Fabric, Cloud Foundry
Defining CI/CD pipelines to automate test and release across different application environments using concepts such as Blue/Green and Canary deployments and related technologies (e.g.Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure for DevOps, Chef, Puppet)
Source code management using Git or other source control technologies such as TFS

Open sourcetechnologies and frameworks

expertisein microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes
Proficient withKubernetes ecosystem such as DAPR, ISTIO, HELM,Linkerd.
Software architecture, data structures, modern design patterns, and network protocols

Source control experience including branching,mergingand rebasing
Running microservices and container-based workloads in production.

Core Infrastructure& Security

Modelling cloud infrastructure based on application scale andcapacityneeds,providingdata-driven recommendations tooptimizeapplication architecture and performance
Use of architectural patterns and anti-patterns for resiliency and geo-availability

monitoringand operations at-scale, preferably in a cloud environment
Security and governance with a strongproficiencyin defining and modelling security baselines
Infrastructure-as-Code to build, test and deploy infrastructure for application environments
Open sourcetechnologies and frameworks
Strong working knowledge of security controls such as encryption, AuthN/AuthZ

Zero Trust Framework principles
Experience supporting large and complex geographically distributed enterprise environments with 10000+ users
OS Internals concepts, load balancing, geo-redundancy, CDN and VPN technologies.

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