Cloud Solution Architecture Manager - App Innovation

Om jobbet

Are you insatiably curious? Do you embrace uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from your mistakes? Do you collaborate well with others, knowing that better solutions come from working together? Do you stand in awe of what humans dare to achieve, and are you motivated every day to empower others to achieve more through technology and innovation? Are you ready to join a team that is at the leading edge of innovation at Microsoft?We'll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help your team and customers reach theirs.

We are looking for a highly motivated and passionateCloud Solution Architecture Managerfocusing on AzureApplication Innovationto join the Customer Success Unit in Sweden. This customer-facing position is a deeply technical role spanning design, build, and ongoing production. As CSA Manager, you will ensure customers have a streamlined time-to-value for committed workloads and extracting ongoing value from existing workloads. As part of this role, you will be responsible for technical customer engagements, working with the most challenging and exciting projects. You will work with select customers to lead deep technical architecture discussions with developers, executives, and enterprise architects. You will collaborate with a variety of internal and external teams to develop pilots and oversee projects, ensuring technical blockers are removed on adoption.

This opportunity would suit a strategic thinker, proactive problem solver, technical roadblock resolver, with deep functional and technical knowledge, passionate about our products and customers, and comfortable communicating with a diverse audience.
Responsibilities:

People Management

Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.

• Model - Live our culture, embody our values, practice our leadership principles
• Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes, enable success across boundaries, help the team adapt and learn
• Care - Attract and retain great people, know each individual's capabilities and aspirations, invest in the growth of others

Understanding Customer/Partner Technical Environment

• Provides support for the team in gathering, evaluating, and leveraging industry trends and customer/partner technical insights
• Supports the voice of the customer/partner through escalation, acceleration, and an additional emphasis

Architecture Design and Deployment

• Holds teams accountable for leveraging existing architecture approaches to achieve agreed commitments and develops novel solutions to scale across multiple customers/partners
• Ensures architects are equipped with the capabilities and means to deliver architectural demonstrations while considering complex technical requirements and issues and various technical strategies being proposed. Provides coaching to allow architects to scale solutions
• Applies technical, industry, and enterprise knowledge across multiple, large projects to meet requirements and resolve identified constraints. Guides team to shape and enhance customers' requirements
• Leads customer/partner projects that implement technical architecture(s) to enable highly advanced and complex solutions
• Anticipates and removes blockers related to the customer/partner business
• Sets expectations for the team around methodology and governance and ensures that team minimizes risks

Practice Development

• Connects gaps and patterns across business and technology areas and drives changes and improvements

Trusted Advisor

• Coaches the team to create and sustains constructive tension and trust respectfully challenging customer/partner decisions and/or areas where they might do more
• Provides their team with a holistic perspective of industry trends
• Develops and expands existing impactful relationships. with customer and partner/MCS architects, C-level technical decision makers (TDMs), and business stakeholders. Provides direction to TDMs and builds the bridge between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs)

Thought Leadership

• Participates in external architect community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and shares learnings with internal team.
• Acts a mentor to junior colleagues by educating them on technical and non-technical concepts and sharing best practices.
• Demonstrates deep industry knowledge and drives recognition for Microsoft solutions through presentations and engagements with external audiences.

Customer Usage

• Manages and coaches Cloud Solution Architects (CSAs) to lead architecture design, resiliency reviews, and technical optimization across multiple applications, resulting in production deployment application and increased customer business value.
• Leads initiatives to ensure that the customer's environment and applications are well-architected. Acts as an industry expert to serve as a player/coach for CSAs

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
• Experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure technologies
• People management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, and/or technical architect managers.
• Embody our culture and values
• Challenger and growth mindset
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Professional fluency in Swedish desirable

Microsoft envisions a cloud-empowered world. A world of more possibility, more innovation, more openness, and more sky's-the-limit thinking. A world where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envisioning what can be and taking their careers to places they simply couldn't anywhere else. Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. This mission is ambitious and at the core of what our customers deeply care about. At Microsoft we know this mission would be impossible without incredible, passionate, and talented people. We want every employee to contribute their unique skills, discover their passions, and chart a course that makes a difference. We are always learning. Insatiably curious. We lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from our mistakes. We build on each other's ideas because we are better together. We take pride and live the Microsoft Values every day.

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