Microsoft Principal Technology Consultant - CTJ Poly 

United States, Maryland 

545622711

The Microsoft Federal organization was established to address the unique mission, legal/regulatory requirements, and procurement rules and processes of the United States Government (USG). Microsoft Federal is committed to ensuring its resources – including appropriately qualified, experienced, and certified personnel (with necessary security clearances or otherwise) are available as needed to meet USG evolving needs.

Minimum/Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or related field AND 6 + years leadership experience in relevant area of business
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification : This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check : This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under U.S. export control regulations, potentially under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations.  As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide proof of citizenship, for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.

Additional/Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years work experience in relevant area of business.
• Technical certifications based on domain (e.g., Azure, SharePoint).
• M365/O365, SharePoint, CoPilot, Teams
• Azure (Networking, Infrastructure, App Dev, Identity, Active Directory, Azure Stack, etc.)
• Business Applications (Dynamics 365, CRM, etc.)
• Data & AI (SQL, Azure SQL, Azure Data Factory, PowerBI, etc.)
• Identity & Networking (Azure, MIM, O365, etc.)
• Infrastructure (Win10, WVD, MECM, SCCM, etc.)
• Intelligent Communications (Teams, Exchange, Skype for Business, etc.)
• Modern Service Management/Adoption Change Management (MSM/ACM)
• PowerApps/Power Platform
• Project (Project Server Customization, Test, and Implementation)
• UX/UI & Accessibility
• Security & Identity (Sentinel, Azure Security Center, Microsoft Defender for Cloud)

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Participates in the pre-sale process as needed. Helps scope the project by sharing customer or technical knowledge in their specialty domain by leveraging their expertise as a subject matter expert.

Technical Delivery
• Follows capacity process outlined by Global Capacity Management team. Maintains tools with up-to-date skills and availability.
• Participates in and/or may lead meetings with customers/partners to understand their business needs and/or scenario they are trying to solve. Uses business, technology, and industry strategies to define customer/partner requirements and constraints. Engages others appropriately to understand and define customer requirements.
• Supports project planning and the development of project documents by defining the risks and dependencies. Communicates the business value of planned solutions to customers/ partners with direction/guidance. Implements mitigations of technical and business risks. Manages their schedule and communicates with project leads. Delivers against Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
• Implements technical solutions by completing assigned project tasks with defined quality standards and following Microsoft Services processes. May oversee aspects of implementation.
• Proactively identifies issues and risks and engages with customers/partners or internal stakeholders (e.g., Project Managers) as appropriate to address and resolve issues.
• Proactively manages relationships with customers/partners/stakeholders to identify and contribute to the drivers of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, determine the root cause, and establish recovery actions to improve experience.

• Acts as an ambassador in consumption of intellectual property (IP) and leverages IP in projects. Proactively helps create intellection property content and seeks areas available for more IP. Communicates areas that need refreshing or gaps in intellectual property. Provides feedback for continuous improvement.

Business Development
• Identifies opportunities to expand or accelerate the adoption and consumption of cloud and Microsoft technologies.

Operational Excellence
• Completes operational tasks and readiness and ensures timeliness and accuracy. Follow Microsoft policies, compliance, and procedures (e.g., Enterprise Services Authorization Policy, Standards of Business Conduct, labor logging, expenses, travel guidelines).