Lead Cloud Solution Architect

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We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate App Innovation Architect focusing on Azure Application Innovation to join the Customer Success Unit within the Middle East Cluster Subsidiary. This customer-facing position is a hands-on technical role spanning across design, build, and production with a focus on issue resolution to remove customer technical obstacles and adoption challenges.

As part of this role, you will be responsible for technical customer engagements, working with the most challenging and exciting projects within Microsoft Qatar customer base. You will work with select customers to lead deep technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, IT Management and Developers. You will collaborate with a variety of internal and external teams to develop pilots and oversee implementation projects, ensuring technical blockers are removed on adoption. You will drive technical intensity of developers and create communities within customers. And you will collaborate with Product engineering to share feedback into the development of Microsoft products and help develop Azure platforms.

Responsibilities Understand customers' overall applications portfolio, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions (Microsoft and 3rd party solutions) using PaaS, DevOps & Advanced Application coding

Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to empower customers to create a modernization journey roadmap. Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies including Kubernetes, Azure PaaS services (e.g. App Service, Java, containers, serverless, cloud native, etc.) and Application Development with low code options and DevOps and GitHub technologies as appropriate

Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects and MS stakeholders in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform.

Ensure all solutions exhibit "Well-Architected" framework, such as high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment

Run Architectural Design Session to build plan for implementing solution -governing design in line with customer business goals and their technical environment. Outcome is consensus on solution design and next steps toward production.

Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates

Be the Voice of the Customer; Share insights and best practices, and connect with Engineering teams to remove blockers

Trouble shoot technical issues to prove value of implementation of Azure technologies

Assess the Customers' knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners · Collaborate with others in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform

Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community · Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners and external communities

Build and grow developer communities by driving activities including OpenHacks, Workshops

Qualifications Professional Experience: 5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications required Relationship Building. Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives in large or highly strategic accounts. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects. Required 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 Good business acumen to quickly understand the customer's industry and business to have relevant discussions with technical and business decision makers. Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or services company such as Amazon, Google, VMware, IBM, Oracle, etc. desired. 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 other cloud and data platforms. Preferred Partners: Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs. Preferred Breadth of technical experience and knowledge, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise in two or more of the following Data Analytics and AI Platform Cloud solutions. Required

SQL including OSS (postgres, MySQL etc), Azure SQL NoSQL Databases including OSS (Maria, Mongo etc), Cosmos DB Big Data including SQL DW, Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift Advanced Analytics including Azure Data Bricks, visualization tools as PowerBI, Tableau Data Governance Data Engineering Data Science Machine Learning including Azure ML, ML Server Artificial Intelligence including BOT framework, Cognitive Services, Cognitive Search Expertise in data estate workloads like HDInsight, Hadoop, Cloudera, Spark, Python Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineer or related field preferred Certification in one or more of the following technologies preferred: Cloud, mobile, Database, Big Data, BI, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence 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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Benefits and Perks

Industry leading healthcare Savings and investments Giving programs Educational resources Maternity and paternity leave Opportunities to network and connect Discounts on products and services Generous time away

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