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Microsoft · 1 day ago

Principal Cloud Solution Architect, Dev Squad

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$131K/yr - $252K/yr

7+ years exp

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. The Principal Cloud Solution Architect is part of the Dev Squad organization working with software engineers to develop strategic projects with customers in Latin America, aiming to contribute to their digital transformation.

Application Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentData ManagementDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Responsibilities

Engages with and reaches out to customers proactively and independently

Uses knowledge of customer context, solution or portfolio expertise, and technical and industry knowledge to build credibility with customers

Actively code in C#, Java, Golang or any other language stack that might be necessary in the project

Leads and ensures technical wins for core and adjacent technologies by leading technical discussions with customers and establishing rules of engagement (e.g., role boundaries, handoff strategies) for extended teams, leveraging knowledge of processes (e.g., Managed Service Provider [MSP], Managed Certified Professional [MCP]), tools, and programs (e.g., Cloud Accelerate Factory, End Customer Investment Funds [ECIFs]). Searches for customer references to use in engagements

Leverages foundational knowledge of resources (e.g., roles, Microsoft Technology Center [MTC], demo sites, virtual sites, Value Based Delivery [VBD], Customer Success Unit [CSU]) and proactively engages product teams (e.g., engineering) to remediate blockers by conveying impact

Participate on a team of software engineers as an architect and active developer working with customers and partners to create solutions to solve critical customers needs

Work under Agile/SCRUM and Dev Ops best practices as part of a development team

Actively up-skill during the project time-frame and between projects in specific moments for study and training

Tech Lead projects as a SCRUM lead and main architect, working with your peers in a development team

Captures core competitive knowledge and delivers back to product and engineering teams to enhance team capabilities and develop compete strategies for assigned customers

Provides strategic, technical, and partner input based on Microsoft capability at the account level to contribute to strategy development, leveraging partner, competitor, or open-source knowledge

Demonstrates and oversees demonstrations (e.g., architectural design sessions, and proof of concept [POC] sessions) of products, services, and integration through initial engagements. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove capabilities and integration into customer environment

Work with customers and other team members in co-designing and delivering MVP projects that will eventually land in production environments

Presents and applies architecture patterns to partners or customers and drives cross-workload support for Microsoft Solutions and industry leading services, frameworks and open-source projects as required

Qualification

Cloud Solution ArchitectureTechnical ConsultingSoftware DevelopmentArchitecture DesignC#JavaGolangCloud TechnologiesAgile/SCRUMTechnical Pre-salesCustomer EngagementTeam CollaborationProblem SolvingCommunication SkillsAdaptability

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 7+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship

Preferred

6+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, technology delivery, or related experience

Or Engineering experience designing, coding, shipping technology solutions build at cloud providers, or development or Frameworks, programming languages or enterprise software

4+ years' experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management

6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external)

4+ years of experience working as a hands-on developer, coding with enterprise customers in recent years

Or Engineering experience designing solutions at a global cloud hyperscaler that provide those technical capabilities

Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Azure Foundry, Information Security, Architecture)