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Cloud Solution Architect - Business Applications

Posted 23 Mar 2024
Work experience
2 to 4 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required languages
English (Fluent)
Dutch (Fluent)

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Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders 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.

The Global Partner Solutions (GPS) team mission is to: build and sell intelligent cloud and intelligent edge solutions with partners, empowering people and organizations to achieve more. GPS is a sales organization accountable for the commercial partner business at Microsoft.

Partner Cloud Solution Architects (CSAs) play a critical role in working with partners to provide deep technical support through solution build and first mile customer engagements such as Proof of Concepts, Architectural Design Sessions (ADS), and Hackathons. The CSAs build relationships with partner technical and development resources, designing and architecting new solutions based on Microsoft’s cloud platform and technologies.

CSAs deliver value via a portfolio of service delivery engagements optimized to accelerate partner solution builds and first mile customer wins and stand out as a Technology expert due to deep solutions knowledge. They can go toe-to-toe with Microsoft engineering teams and blackbelts often surfacing product issues, providing feedback and insights that accelerate fixes and updates.

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture design, resiliency reviews, and technical optimization that result in production deployment application and increase customer business value.
  • Drive efforts to ensure that the customer's environment and applications are well-architected.
  • Acts as the voice of the partner/customer by driving new feedback, gaps, blockers, insights, resources, etc. across communities to track, add, and prioritize.
  • Leverage and champion an existing architecture approach to achieve Microsoft's agreed commitments to the partner/customer. Identifies growth opportunities based on knowledge of partner/customer
  • Lead partner/customer projects that implement technical architecture(s). Provide thought leadership for technical architecture design, development, and deployment and supports/drives the partner/customerthroughout pre-sales and/or implementation.
  • Identify, escalate, and work to resolve technical blockers (e.g., changing configurations, sample coding) to accelerate architecture implementations and routes non-technical issues for removal by the appropriate party.
  • Generate new ideas for changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), services, technologies, and processes for designated partners/customers.
  • Develop and expand existing impactful relationships with partner and customer architects and technical specialists, technical decision makers and business stakeholders.
  • Share ideas, insights and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using a thorough knowledge of specific Microsoft products and their context in the competitive landscape.
  • Participate in external architect community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and share learnings with the internal team.
  • Understand the competitor's architecture solutions and identify Microsoft's strengths over competitive solutions to drive conversations with partners/customers.

Qualifications

  • Demonstrable experience in either technology solutions, consulting, or cloud architecture focused on ERP or CRM solutions.
  • Experience working with finance based customers or finance based projects.
  • Strong understanding of ERP or CRM solution market trends and value proposition.
  • Technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management.
  • Candidates should be experienced in implementing, customizing, operating, maintaining and/or troubleshooting Cloud Based ERP or CRM environments, ideally across multiple industries.
  • Fluent in English. Dutch is nice-to-have, but not mandatory.
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or IT

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.

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Onze belofte?
'At Microsoft we help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.’

We werken met meer dan 100.000 Microsoft collega’s in ruim 60 landen aan het inlossen van deze belofte. In Nederland verzorgen wij samen met onze partners de verkoop en marketing van Microsoft technologie met ruim 900 medewerkers. Daarnaast houden IT professionals, binnen MicrosoftNL Services, zich bezig met strategie, consultancy en support bij de grootste organisaties van Nederland. Zij dragen end-to-end verantwoordelijkheid voor de business impact van Microsoft technologieën bij klanten. Klanten variërend van multinationals tot hulporganisaties.

Microsoft Nederland biedt een levendige werkplek met inspirerende collega’s. Ons kantoor, genaamd The Outlook, is niet alleen een kantoor, maar ook een ontmoetingsplek voor collega’s, partners en klanten. Onze technologie verbindt ons met elkaar en de wereld en stelt je in staat om te werken waar en wanneer je wilt. Wij zijn niet alleen het grootste softwarebedrijf ter wereld dat zich richt op de consumenten én de zakelijke markt, we zijn ook uitgeroepen tot een Great Place to Work. Bij Microsoft kijken we niet naar aanwezigheid, maar naar resultaten. Je krijgt de ruimte om zelf te bepalen hoe, waar en wanneer je werkt. En om te groeien, zowel professioneel als persoonlijk. Want als jij groeit, groeien wij als organisatie ook.

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