Cloud Solution Architect – Data Platform in London, United Kingdom

With over 17,000 staff worldwide, the mission of the Buyer Expertise & Success (CE&S) group is to empower prospects to speed up enterprise worth by differentiated buyer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s merchandise, providers, and partnerships. Come be part of CE&S and assist us construct a future the place prospects obtain their enterprise outcomes sooner with know-how that does extra.

As a part of the UK Buyer Success Unit you should have the chance to empower the most important Enterprise prospects within the UK to benefit from the Azure platform.

Azure is probably the most complete, progressive and versatile cloud platform at present and Microsoft is hiring professionals that can drive buyer cloud adoption inside an important firms available in the market. We’re at all times studying. Insatiably curious. We lean into uncertainty, take dangers, and study shortly from our errors. We construct on one another’s concepts as a result of we’re higher collectively. We stand in awe of what people dare to realize and are motivated day-after-day to empower others to do extra and obtain extra by our know-how and innovation. Collectively we make a distinction.

This can be a buyer dealing with position, delivering to prospects throughout Industries to allow Buyer Success, by migration and adoption of the Azure Platform and applied sciences and leveraging WW Greatest Practices. We’re on the lookout for an amazing drawback solver who is extremely proactive, plans for pitfalls, prioritises ruthlessly for impression and who loves working with know-how and prospects. If you’re seeking to develop your Azure abilities, we’d love to show you, so that you will be profitable on this position.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower each individual and each group on the planet to realize extra. As staff we come along with a development mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to appreciate our shared objectives. Every day we construct on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a tradition of inclusion the place everybody can thrive at work and past.

This position is versatile in which you can work as much as 50% from residence.

Tasks

Buyer Centricity​

• Buyer Satisfaction – Drive optimistic Buyer Satisfaction & develop into a trusted advisor.​

• Buyer/Accomplice Insights – Present suggestions & insights from prospects/companions.​​

Enterprise Influence​

• Consumption (Cloud & Assist) development – Develop alternatives to drive Buyer Success enterprise outcomes & assist Clients get worth from their Microsoft investments.​

• Decision of Buyer Blockers – Determine resolutions to Buyer blockers by leveraging SA subject material experience. Ship in accordance with MS greatest practices & utilizing repeatable IP. ​

​Technical Management ​

• Trusted Advisor – information buyer journeys to our Cloud & prepared them to innovate with AI, offering thought management by constructively difficult buyer pondering, making use of information of their state of affairs, Azure Infra subject material experience, IP & trade/market insights and thru supply of WW Microsoft greatest practices, similar to Effectively Architected Framework Worth Based mostly Deliveries.

• Speed up buyer outcomes – Share experience, contribute to IP creation & re-use to speed up buyer outcomes. ​

Profitable Cloud Answer Architects obtain outcomes by:​​

1. Buyer Obsession, matching buyer wants with acceptable Microsoft sources and repeatable IP, e.g., by giving the client confidence that we can assist them obtain their desired enterprise outcomes, together with readying them for AI, utilizing Worth Based mostly Supply.​

2. ​Understanding the vital levers that impression achievement of targets/ enterprise aims and planning/ forecasting forward to beat any related constraints or dangers ie. lead occasions for buyer sources.​

3. ​Repeatedly constructing their capabilities to fulfill MS/Buyer priorities and private profession growth wants, e.g., by proactively leveraging profession stage steering and taking possession for planning technical skilling & private growth and actions.​

4. Actively contribute to the success of others by participating together with your native & international communities, teaching and mentoring others and contributing to group success by IP sharing.

{Qualifications}

Required/Minimal {Qualifications} (RQs/MQs)

• Bachelor’s Diploma in Pc Science, Data Expertise, Engineering, Enterprise,

• AND/OR associated discipline expertise in information platform supply (eg cloud-scale analytics, databases or information warehousing), info know-how (IT) consulting/help, programs administration, community operations, software program growth/help, know-how options, observe growth, structure, and/or consulting or associated discipline

Skilled Expertise – Confirmed success in know-how sector with both technical gross sales, initiatives, structure, design, implementation, and/or supply help.

 

Relationship Constructing –  Confirmed monitor document of constructing deep technical relationships with folks, expertise in managing varied stakeholder relationships to get consensus on answer/initiatives.

 

Downside Fixing . Ardour and skill to unravel technical issues.

 

Collaboration and Communication Acknowledged for driving selections collaboratively, resolving conflicts and making certain observe by with distinctive verbal and written communication abilities. Skill to orchestrate, lead, and affect digital groups, making certain profitable implementation of buyer initiatives. Presentation abilities with a excessive diploma of consolation with each giant and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT Administration, Information Analysts, Engineers).

Technical

 

• Deep area experience in enterprise-scale technical deployments in a number of of the Information-specific areas, similar to Azure SQL Information (IaaS/PaaS), deployments and migrations to the cloud, Open-source database deployments and migrations, Cloud Scale Analytics, Information Governance, Lakehouse structure, information warehousing. Databricks and/ or Snowflake expertise can be invaluable.

• Expertise creating Information & Analytics Minimal Viable Merchandise (MVPs) for purchasers that result in manufacturing deployments. Expertise in conducting structure critiques, troubleshooting optimising and scaling manufacturing environments.

• Familiarity with the Agile methodology, DevOps and CI/CD device chains (i.e., Azure Developer Companies, GitHub) and container orchestration programs (i.e., Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Azure Kubernetes Service, GitHub).

• The technical aptitude and expertise to study new applied sciences and perceive market and related cloud developments. Thought Chief in the important thing Information & Analytics eventualities which might be driving digital transformation in key industries similar to Retail, Monetary Companies, Healthcare and so on.

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