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Microsoft Solution Architect - Digital Native Asia Growth Markets 
Singapore 
462731970

09.07.2024

Ideally you will come from a software engineering or similar technical background and have pre sales experience across Azure, Open Source and other cloud technologies. A good understanding of the Digital Native and AI landscape is critical to the success of this role.

Professional:

  • Minimum of 5 years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications.
  • Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives in large or highly strategic accounts.
  • Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies.
  • Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects.

Technical:

  • Extensive technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, aplication development, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management.
  • Experience in optimizing cloud resources for cost, performance, and scalability, especially for compute-intensive AI workloads.
  • Expertise in building and deploying scalable, high-availability serverless applications in Azure or other cloud providers.
  • Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments (including migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud).
  • Extensive technical experience with cloud-native app hosting through software design, development, deployment, and app refactoring/migrations.
  • Familiarity with scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies Azure functions and logic apps, container orchestration Kubernetes.
  • Proficiency with software development practices and DevOps using CI/CD tool chains (i.e., Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub).
  • Knowledge of cloud development platforms preferred.
  • Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs.

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience in a related field.

Certifications are a plus:

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
  • Certifications in Azure Development, Azure AI Engineer Associate, Azure Data Engineer Associate, and/or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.

Experience:

  • Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or services company such as Amazon, VMware, Google, IBM, Oracle Preferred.

Responsibilities
The Digital Native business operates like a startup within an enterprise. The ideal candidate will thrive in an ambiguous environment, network to leverage the team around them and bring a get it done attitude for our customers.

  • Lead technical discussions with customers using consultative sales methodology, demos, and programs to understand needs and showcase Microsoft solutions.
  • Develop technical strategy by mapping customer vision, resolving concerns, and building a strong business case for investment.
  • Drive technical assessments to create migration plans aligned with customer goals.
  • Design solutions using technical knowledge and methodology, ensuring agreement from decision-makers.
  • Identify new opportunities to support customer objectives.
  • Act as a trusted advisor, offering solutions to technical leaders and sharing insights with Engineering.
  • Maintain expertise in Azure, Application Development, and AI technologies.
  • Maintain knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community.
  • Scale through partners, facilitating resources and processes.
  • Develop customer technical skilling plans collaboratively.
  • Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners, and external communities, building and growing developer communities through activities such as workshops.