Microsoft envisions a world where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envisioning what can be and taking their careers places they simply couldn't anywhere else. This is a world of more possibility, more innovation, more openness, and sky's-the-limit thinking – a cloud-enabled world. 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 and employees care deeply about. We have unique capability in harmonizing the needs of both individuals and organizations. We deeply care about taking our ideals and vision global and making a difference in lives and organizations in all corners of the planet. We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Solution Architect to join our Microsoft US CTO organization to drive high priority initiatives in collaboration with internal customers across our MSUS business.
The role will support the strategies of the Office of the US CTO which include defining and driving Digital Transformation strategies and solutions, growing the business by delivering digital transformation and technical presales services, ensuring high customer satisfaction by driving architecture governance and quality assurance for all phases of the solution lifecycle, and fostering the architect and technical communities to provide support and growth for our people. The ideal candidate will have: • Experience in customer facing roles and success leading technical architecture discussions with
• 5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects (where necessary, managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects) • Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solution to the cloud • Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives and growing data platform share in large or highly strategic accounts • Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly • Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with