Overview
Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centred on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and managers 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.
We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Solution Architect with a background in Microsoft Azure data platforms and product development who will be a valuable part of our Industry Solutions Delivery team in the UK. This customer-facing position empowers customers on their digital journey, from envisioning new possibilities to delivering solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and a great customer experience.
You will have responsibility for leading the delivering of high quality architectural solutions and business outcomes based on the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform. Demonstrating deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure services and offerings across the entire life-cycle, together with a critical focus on opportunity management, leadership and technical governance, this is your chance to drive transformational results and enable the realisation of business strategy for both customers and Microsoft Industry Solutions.
Qualifications
With a combination of your architectural experience, technical leadership and your personable and consultative customer engagement style, you will be well positioned to succeed in this role. Other skills and experiences that will be important in allowing you to add value include:
• Experience engaging in large scale consulting engagement (including estimation models, scoping, development of budgetary estimates, writing proposals)
• A background of architecting complex solutions focused on Azure data services at enterprise scale, including:
• Deep understanding of Microsoft Fabric, Purview and Postgres
• Integration of data services
• Utilisation of Kubernetes and microservices for data sharing, storage, reliability and high availability
• Data governance and data tagging strategies
• Secure data management and monitoring
• Data structure definition for complex data solutions
• Analysis of data messaging and data flows
• Regular involvement in presenting complex technical topics to both an executive and a technical audience
• An ability to articulate architectural differences between solution methods and the challenges and approaches to integrating solutions built on different platforms
• Experience in several complex product development or migration projects from on-premise to cloud platforms for enterprise customers
• Ability to lead a multidisciplinary technical team, provide clear direction and take accountability for technical project outcomes
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
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Responsibilities
Your passion for creating solutions that bring value to our customers' businesses and your professional, consultancy style approach will offer you the opportunity to get involved in a number of activities, including:
• Taking a central role in shaping deals and projects
• Working with senior level business stakeholders within our customers to identify requirements and influencing the approach and solutions
• Assuming a lead role in agile engagements, working with the technical teams on design and implementation of innovative solutions and products, providing guidance and decision making
• Collaborating with local area teams on demand generation and presales activities
• Mentoring colleagues to share your knowledge and experience
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