OverviewJoin a team at the intersection of technology, strategy, and customer success.At CASA (Cloud & AI Solutions Advisors), we help customers realize the full value of Microsoft's Cloud and AI solutions. As a
Digital Cloud Solution Architecture Leader, you will lead a team of technical professionals who engage customer decision makers, drive solution adoption, and accelerate business outcomes.
You will coach and develop high-performing talent, orchestrate resources across Microsoft and our partner ecosystem, and guide your team through technical engagements, demonstrations, pilots, and complex customer scenarios. Leveraging customer and industry insights, you will help remove blockers, influence technical strategy, and ensure successful adoption of Microsoft technologies.
This role combines
people leadership, customer engagement, and technical strategy, with responsibility for employee growth, performance management, capacity planning, and fostering a culture of learning, innovation, and customer impact.
ResponsibilitiesArchitecture Design and Deployment- Applies broad technical, industry, and enterprise knowledge to architecture projects to meet business and Information Technology requirements and resolve identified constraints. Helps to shape and enhance customers' requirements. Coaches team on right use of Pilots and Proof of Concepts.
- Adapts methodology and applies governance to identify, communicate, and/or minimize business and/or technical risks, defines customer/partner conditions of success, adheres to quality assurance, and calculates risks whilst designing and/or delivering solutions.
Driving Customer Success- Builds and leads strategic conversation between Microsoft cloud solutions, partner, customer business, and Information Technology objectives. Participates in Microsoft centric operations and cadences to align with customers as needed. Acts as a go-to resource for customer success.
- Supports the Voice of the Customer through escalation, acceleration, and additional emphasis of feedback, blockers, insights, resources, etc. (e.g., OneList) items as needed. Drives behavior of team in support of the customer.
- Coaches team to build customer timelines and utilizes them to build industry/team plan. Aligns multiple engagement plans and leverages corporate resources dedicated to awareness improvement of high potentials (e.g., Skills Learning platform).
- Contributes to and holds team accountable to rhythm of business. Represents high potential and sub-area initiatives (e.g. acceleration plans, scorecard).Drives One Microsoft mindset. Aligns technical resources to customer and customer cases based on account planning and priorities, with the flexibility to realign to minimize orchestration and enable proactive engagements as needed.
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.
Scale Customer Engagements- Ensures consistency and quality through adherence of standards and best practices (e.g., Managed Service Provider, Managed Certified Professional) in customer engagements by holding team accountable.
- Leads and ensures complex technical wins (e.g., cross-workload, cross-team, cross-geography, subsidiary-level impact) by establishing rules of engagement (e.g., role boundaries, handoff strategies), coaching others (e.g., technical sellers, account teams), leveraging knowledge of processes (e.g., Managed Service Provider, co-sell partners), tools, and programs (e.g., FastTrack, End Customer Investment Funds. Ensures and drives alignment of Microsoft technologies with future sector standards and requirements by working with industry boards and driving customer case studies and references.
- Identifies and engages with customer technical decision makers and influencers proactively while engaging sales team and delivering/driving sales strategy.
- Orchestrates team resources and coaches team to maximize impact of customer engagements through capacity planning, prioritization, capabilities assessment, and utilization of resources. Prioritizes resources and holds team accountable for maximizing selling time to achieve scorecard objectives and subsidiary strategy.
- Leverages knowledge of resources (e.g., roles, Microsoft Technology Center, demo sites, virtual sites) and proactively engages product and support teams (e.g., engineering) to remediate escalated technical blockers by conveying impact and anticipating and addressing future potential blockers based on needs. Ensures that non-technical issues are routed and removed by appropriate party.
- Uses knowledge of customer context, cross-solution or portfolio expertise, and deep technical and market/industry knowledge to build credibility with customers individually or at scale.
Scale Through Partners- Coaches team in working with account teams to shape strategic win plan and tailor Microsoft messaging to audience using knowledge of customer feedback, specific Microsoft solutions, and their context in a competitive landscape. Ensures team is equipped to execute compete strategy, collaborating with cross-functional groups as needed.
- Coaches team and oversees demonstrations (e.g., Architectural Design Sessions, Proof of Concept sessions) of solutions and position solutions against competitors through initial engagements. Ensures demonstrations enable customers to identify and resolve technical issues with clear criteria and next steps that guarantee deployment of Microsoft technology. Guides team on Microsoft standards on demonstrations to provide feedback to partners.
- Monitors, analyzes, and provides input on proactive action plans to promote customer usage of key/prioritized Microsoft solutions/products that support customer's business outcomes. Identifies opportunities to promote usage.
- Scales wins through partner in a sell-with environment by promoting the partner within the Microsoft ecosystem (e.g., account teams) and drives the orchestration model for partner engagement at scale.
Technical Leadership- Monitors, responds to, and acts as a thought leader on internal and external tech community posts, establishes and leads vibrant tech communities including community calls, sessions, hackathon, etc. and acts as a mentor to the community.
- Ensures customer cloud platform enablement by ensuring coverage of entire customer portfolio, ensuring customer proficiency, and orchestrating across multiple function to ensure basic operational foundations in place. Ensures customers have training plans developed by Cloud Solutions Architects. Reviews training plans and provides feedback to Cloud Solutions Architects as necessary
- Fosters community sharing of stories and leveraging of pre-existing resources by encouraging and empowering team to share learnings and by establishing a cadence (e.g., internal technical brainstorming calls, presenting latest challenges in staff meetings) to calibrate on challenges and trends that impact the team.
- Builds readiness plans for peers and proactively identifies gaps and new opportunities for learning. Identifies connections across platforms/workloads to promote collaborative learning.
QualificationsRequired/minimum qualifications- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales OR Relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms AND 3+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales OR 5+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technical architect, consulting, design and implementation, and/or sales OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ year(s) people management experience.
Digital Cloud Solution Architecture M4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
