Job description
Our network of global Microsoft Technology Centers (MTC) are premium customer-facing facilities built to help enterprise customers solve their business challenges through innovative cross-workload solutions. We accelerate our customers’ digital transformation by capitalizing on the changing needs of our customers and the new business opportunities of tomorrow.
As a Technical Architect in the London Microsoft Technology Center, you will be working at the forefront of Microsoft innovation, helping customers create and implement a vision and strategy for their digital transformation. You will be an integral part of their transformation journey, challenging their ways of thinking and helping them realize and adopt the benefits of our Cloud. Part of a world-wide community of exceptional peers, you’ll have access to the latest software and hardware, and you’ll be given the time and budget to develop as a globally influential technical leader. Our engagements are delivered in our facility at 2 Kingdom Street, Paddington.
Responsibilities
- Deliver customer engagements: Based at our London MTC facility in Paddington, you will prepare and deliver technical engagements to enterprise customers. These include strategy sessions, envisioning workshops, architecture design sessions, building of rapid prototypes, and hackathons. The nature of complex customer opportunities which come to the MTC necessitates taking a cross-solution view to leverage capabilities across the entire Microsoft cloud platform; and are rarely limited to a single technology solution. You will work collaboratively with account teams to determine the best engagements for a given opportunity to maximize customer benefit and accelerate deals success.
- Solution design: Using your technical knowledge, architectural approach, consultancy skills and our methodology to win a customer’s technical decision to buy and use Microsoft solutions and cloud services.
- Set vision: You will use your technical knowledge to show customers an inspiring digital vision, across all Microsoft workloads, as well as deeper engagement in your core technology specialism. You will make this digital vision real using the architecture skills of you and your peers to provide a complete solution.
- Build strategy: You will map the agreed customer vision into a strategy for implementation, resolving concerns, removing technical blockers, and validating a strong business case for investment. You will work with the customer, wider account team resources and our partners to orchestrate a roadmap for implementation.
- An expert in Microsoft business applications: Guide business and technical decision makers on creating business value on top of our Business Applications platform. Synthesize business and technical architecture requirements. Serve as the as the go-to technical expert in the business applications space for the regional sales team. Deliver speaking engagements evangelizing our Business Applications platform in business and industry conferences
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- Technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Structured facilitator. Validated customer experience in requirements capture; prioritization; capturing evidence and impact to quantify business value; issue, risk and constraint identification
- Technical Intermediate level experience across the full range of Microsoft cloud solutions – Azure infrastructure, Azure Developer, Azure data, artificial intelligence, business applications, modern workplace and productivity, security, business applications. Demonstrated experience of solution architectures which span multiple workloads
- Design Thinking. Proven experience of delivering design thinking; ‘ideation’; or similar context analysis / problem framing.
- Technical depth. Technical competency in customer engagement, operations, field service, and sales automation solutions such as: Salesforce, Workday, Oracle + Siebel/NetSuite, SAP CRM, etc. Mastery of CRM and Power Platform business process workflows and corresponding governance, regulatory, and security models. Architect enterprise business applications with the full capabilities of the Microsoft Cloud – Dynamics 365, Azure and Microsoft 365. Demonstrated ability to build business applications on top of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform using C#, HTML5, SQL, JavaScript, etc.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Microsoft
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/
Redmond, United States
Satya Nadella
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Computer Hardware Development
1975