Principal Cloud Solution Architect - CTJ - TS/SCI
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Nov 23, 2024 | |
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OverviewWe are looking to hire a Principal Cloud Solution Architect to join Microsoft Federal. Microsoft Federal delivers a single unified organization centered around our customers.Thisorganization is a first-of-its-kind for Microsoft,bringing together expertise, knowledge, and insights across our teams. All critical customer functions are brought under the same organizational umbrella, bringingthe breadth and depth of our expertise into razor-sharp focus on serving the U.S. Federal Government. We are committed toempowering our teams, building upon our strategic investments, and delivering the technology to achieve federal missions.Asour customers pursue their work, from defending the nation, to serving its people in challenging times, they look to Microsoft to help them innovate, and they expect end-to-end engagement tailored to their needs. We aspire to... Deliver the best technologyto enable mission-critical work Support fast-paced innovationwith the U.S. Federal Government Drive focused, thoughtful, end-to-end deliverytailored to unique customer needs Continuously advance security processeswithin our long-standing engagement approach 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. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.
ResponsibilitiesKey responsibilities include: Understand customers' overall data estate, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions Apply technical knowledge to architect solutions that meet business and IT needs, create roadmaps, and ensure long term technical viability of new deployments, infusing key technologies where appropriate Ensure that solution exhibits high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers and relevant business decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates Be a Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Product/Engineering teams to remove key blockers Assess the Customers' knowledge of cloud platforms and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners. Collaborate with peers and MS stakeholders in developing complex end-to-end enterprise solutions Maintain technical skills and knowledge, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community while educating customers on Microsoft products and services Recognize, analyze, and take action on go to market approaches, joint value propositions, and business cases around strategic partnerships Mentor, coach, and provide consistent feedback to a diverse team of engineers, train team members on design, best practices, and standardized operations procedures. Be an evangelist with customers, partners and external communities. Professional Experience Good business acumen to quickly understand the customer's industry and business to have relevant discussions with business decision makers. Ability to understand customer business and provide thought leadership to the customer on how technology can aid the business processes Ability to develop a joint "Business + Technology"architecture strategy based on situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations within federal government. Understanding of one or more domain areas of federal government (e.g. Healthcare, Financial etc.) Problem Solving. Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies Required Collaboration and Communication. Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects. Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management, Database administrators and Data Scientist) Required Leadership experience on major transformation projects and successful transitions to implementation support teams Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication Technical Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, database migrations, and technology management. required The technical aptitude and experience to learn new technologies and understand relevant cloud trend Competitive Landscape: Knowledge of cloud development platforms Partners: Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs preferred Technical - Cloud Solution Experience Breadth of technical experience and knowledge, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise in two or more of the following cloud solutions required Cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS, SAP, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, containers and Infra as a code technologies) Cloud application development solutions (e.g. PaaS, Serverless, API Management) Container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry) Big Data including SQL DW, Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift Advanced Analytics including Azure Data Bricks, visualization tools as PowerBI, Tableau Machine Learning including Azure ML, ML Server Artificial Intelligence including BOT framework, Cognitive Services, Cognitive Search Experience using integrated development environments (e.g. Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, XCode, WebSphere) targeting Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, public clouds (i.e. Azure, AWS) Experience with scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry etc.), API management, microservice frameworks etc. | |