Microsoft Partner Solution Architect 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

480598719

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
• 4+ years experience working on technical projects for partners or customers.
• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).

Education and Thought Leadership

• Uses existing and new readiness resources and demonstrates expertise in creating enablement plans for partners with complex solutions, and all-up Microsoft business.
• Drives innovations to help partners meet capacity and capability goals, maximize reach and impact, and drive long-term engagement and thought leadership on the Microsoft platform, and influences large partners to see and adopt the strategic value.
• Provides expertise and is sought out by the Microsoft community because of broad expertise across technologies or solution areas.
• Leads the direction that virtual team members (e.g., Account Team) take with Partners and their customers by providing them with strategic input using thorough knowledge of Microsoft technologies, partner accounts, and digital transformations and their context in the competitive landscape.
• Coaches the partner on building resilience to technical issues and dealing with competition.

Ensuring Success

• Helps assigned partners engage in technical pre-sales, deployment, and consumption for the practices or solutions they have built.
• Orchestrates a wide, complex range of activities in accordance with partner technical development plan, to develop solution offerings and value realization across a variety of solution areas.
• Sets timelines and milestones, and tracks progress toward objectives. Leverages industry expertise and establishes technical credibility with partners to drive Microsoft Technology adoption.
• Demonstrates partner and customer obsession in driving digital transformation and Microsoft technology adoption by helping them realize the value, meet their business objectives, achieve their consumption and business targets, and accelerate growth.
• Leverages rich expertise and relationships with others to guide the development of partner technology roadmaps that enable them to expand into new markets and provide them with a competitive edge.

Partner and Industry Insights

• Synthesizes and combines various business insights from their team, global best practices, proof points from experience with several countries and regions.
• Leads the orchestration of complex teams across the organization to gather information, collaborate on performance markers, and identify potential risks in partner accounts.
• Brings in business and industry insights to address the broader business challenges for the partner. Executes work against the overall business and technical strategy.

Solution Development

• Helps partners build practices or solutions and shares their experience and influence with partners through solution-sales guidance.
• Influences partner to enable the broader technical team to ensure that technical pre-sales, deployment, and consumption (with a focus on key strategic workloads and solutions) are part of solution development efforts.
• Coaches the partner on building resilience to technical issues and dealing with competition.
• Proactively influences the development of groundbreaking and highly impactful solutions using Microsoft technologies, and builds solutions into the partner ecosystem to enable partners to sell to end-customers.
• Help partners build industry solution based on Microsoft Technology and publish the solutions in Microsoft Marketplace, build strong Microsoft solution eco-system.

Strategy Formulation

• Provides analysis of overall partner needs for some of the largest and most complex accounts, and advises on gaps that would benefit from Microsoft solutions, using an understanding of the business strategies and outcomes that technology can support.
• Leads the adoption of technologies, long-term vision of the customer's/partner's business strategy and driving action to bring to fruition.
• Creates mid-term and long-term technical development plans (TDP) for highly prominent, challenging, and/or strategic accounts based on a deep understanding of business and technology priorities and industry landscape in alignment with the Partner Business Plans (PBPs) and in collaboration with the Partner Development Manager (PDM).
• Drives envisioning and technical and program changes in the roadmaps around new and groundbreaking technologies.
• Ensures execution of technology strategy and digital transformation by anticipating and/or leading the resolution of technical blockers that arise during strategy planning and implementation, and driving technology adoption. Ensures that the execution of work supports the transformation of the partners and their customer's technology capacity, capability, and co-selling across the engagement, and uses expertise and influence to accelerate strategy execution.