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Cloud Solution Architect - Data & Analytics

Posted 23 Mar 2024
Work experience
6 to 7 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required languages
English (Fluent)
Dutch (Fluent)

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Azure is the most comprehensive, innovative and flexible cloud platform today and Microsoft is hiring professionals who will drive customer cloud adoption within the most important companies in the market. We are looking for highly motivated and passionate Data Platform & Advanced Analytics Architects to drive high priority customer initiatives on the Microsoft Azure Platform in collaboration with customers and the Microsoft field. Specifically, we aim for someone with experience in public sector and/or healthcare.

This is a customer facing role owning overall technical relationships between customers and Microsoft Data & Advanced Analytics solutions. You will own the Data Platform & Advanced Analytics technical customer engagements including architectural design sessions, specific implementation projects and/or MVPs.

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.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home (higher percentage negotiable).

Responsibilities

Understanding Customer Technical Environment

  • Gathers customer insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and maps architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer business outcomes. Adapts business models, plans, and solutions to insights.
  • Acts as the voice of the customer (VOC) by driving new feedback, gaps, blockers, insights, resources, etc. across communities to track, add, and prioritize, using established channels (e.g., UAT/TFT).

Technical Expertise & Architecture Design and Deployment

As a Data & Analytics Architect, you support customer projects as a subject matter expert in one of the data-specific areas:

  • SQL Server.
  • Deployments and migrations to the cloud.
  • Open-source database deployments and migrations.
  • Cloud Scale Analytics.
  • Data Governance.
  • "Hands on" Experience creating Proof of Concepts, Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) for customers ​that lead to production deployments. Demonstrates complex concepts and proves the capability of those solutions through design collaboration sessions with the customer.
  • Applies technical knowledge of enterprise-scale architecture solutions to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified technical constraints. shaping and enhancing customers' requirements.
  • Provides thought leadership for technical architecture design, development, and deployment and supports/drives the customer throughout pre-sales and/or implementation. Identifies technical blockers (e.g., changing configurations, sample coding) for selected products to accelerate architecture implementations and routes non-technical issues for removal by the appropriate party.
  • Applies methodology and governance, as directed, to minimize business and technical risks and adhere to quality assurance while contributing to design and/or delivery of solutions (e.g. Well-Architected Framework, Enterprise Scale Landing Zone, Cloud Adoption Framework). Demonstrates an understanding of customer conditions of success.

Practice Development

  • Supports research projects and contributes to scoping surveys for customers to assess potential intellectual property (IP) needs or process changes. Learns to identify opportunities for IP re-use and consumption.

Trusted Advisor

  • Identifies and begins developing impactful relationships with internal teams and customer and partner/IDS technical specialists during initial preparation and ramp-up stages.
  • Respectfully challenges customers when going in the wrong direction and escalates appropriately.
  • Understands the competitor's architecture solutions and identifies Microsoft's strengths over competitive solutions to demonstrate Microsoft's value to customers.

Thought Leadership

  • Shares ideas, insight, and technical input with virtual team members (e.g., account team, enterprise channel managers, partner development manager [PDMs]) using a working knowledge of specific Microsoft architectures and other relevant products. Actively looks for relevant communities to learn from and contribute to.
  • Participates in external architect community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and shares learnings with the internal team.

Customer Usage

  • Participates in discussions around architecture design, resiliency reviews, and technical optimization that result in production deployment application and increase customer business value. Ensures that the customer's environment and applications are well-architected.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of professional experience in consulting, technical presales, product engineering, or enterprise data platform implementation.
  • 3+ years of working experience with public sector customers preffered
  • Ability to work creatively and analytically in a customer-facing environment.
  • Ability to use technologies to achieve business objectives and solve business problems.
  • Ability to build deep working relationships with business and IT stakeholders.
  • Ability to drive collaboration, resolve conflicts and drive alignments.
  • Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensure successful implementation of customer projects.
  • Expert knowledge and experience in the architecture of enterprise data platform architecture and data lake.
  • Expert knowledge and experience in at least two of the following:
  • NoSQL platforms (MongoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, etc.) and NoSQL data modeling.
  • RDBMS (Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Oracle DB) and RDBMS data modeling.
  • Data analytics platform and data warehouse (Azure Synapse, Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.) and analytical data modeling.
  • Spark/Databricks, Hadoop, massively parallel processing
  • Data science platform (Azure Machine Learning, Databricks, TensorFlow, SAS, etc.)
  • Knowledge in programming languages (Python, SQL, Java, etc.) is preferred.
  • Knowledge in software engineering methodologies. Certified Scrum Master is a plus.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small technical audiences.
  • Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management.
  • Experience in technical team leading.

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,…


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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