Overview
Our network of global Microsoft Innovation Hubs (formerly MTC - Microsoft Technology Centers) are premium customer-facing facilities built to help enterprise customers solve their business challenges through innovative cross-workload solutions. We accelerate our customers’ digital transformation by capitalizing on the changing needs of our customers and the new business opportunities of tomorrow.
As a Technical Architect in the Innovation Hub, you will be working at the forefront of Microsoft innovation, helping customers create and implement a vision and strategy for their digital transformation. You will be an integral part of their transformation journey, a technical leader who is challenging their ways of thinking and helping them realize and adopt the benefits of our Cloud. Part of a world-wide community of exceptional peers, you’ll have access to the latest software and hardware, and you’ll be given the time and budget to develop as a globally influential technical leader.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
An expert in Data & AI, including Generative AI: Solve customer problems and help them see the future as they transform to meet the future of AI and data. Articulate the transformative potential of Microsoft Azure, including generative AI related services such as Azure OpenAI. Highlight the comprehensive suite of data services, including databases, analytics, machine learning, AI, and business intelligence. Accelerate the customer’s digital transformation journey by leveraging Microsoft’s Big Data, Advanced Analytics, Cognitive Services, and ML/AI platform. Create modern data architectures that provide increased agility to meet the evolving demands of the customer’s business. Emphasise the possibilities of the Microsoft Azure Cloud, particularly focusing on data and AI services, including Databases, Data Lakes, and cutting-edge generative AI capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Deliver exceptional customer engagements: Based at your facility location, you will prepare and deliver engagements to enterprise customers that are both technically deep and inspirational. These include strategic alignment and envisioning sessions, architecture design sessions, and building of rapid prototypes, and hackathons. You take a holistic view to leverage capabilities across the entire Microsoft cloud platform. You will work with account teams and other technical folks across Microsoft to maximize customer benefit and accelerate deals success.
- Solution design: Using your technical knowledge, architectural approach, consultancy skills and our methodology to win a customer’s technical decision to buy and use Microsoft solutions and cloud services.
- Set vision: You will use your passion for customer experience and technical depth to craft for customers an inspiring digital vision, across all Microsoft workloads, as well as deeper engagement in your core technology specialism. You will make this digital vision real using the architecture skills of you and your peers to provide a complete solution.
- Build strategy: You will map the agreed customer vision into a strategy for implementation, resolving concerns, removing technical blockers, and validating a strong business case for investment. You will work with the customer, wider account team resources and our partners to orchestrate a roadmap for implementation.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
- Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).
- 6+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
- 8+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
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