Senior Solution Architect - Cross-Domain Senior Solution Architecture (CDSA)
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At a time when most customers are looking for ways to innovate and disrupt themselves, Microsoft Enterprise Services Cross Domain Solution Architecture (CDSA) team in Asia is looking for a Senior Solution Architect that can help build magical solutions for our customers to help with their digital disruption and transformations. Asia CDSA team at Microsoft is responsible for architecting most innovative and complex solutions as well as building speculative solutions using emerging technologies with our customers as part of digital disruption and transformation strategy.
As the Senior Architect you will require both broad and deep technology knowledge and the ability to architect solutions by mapping common customer business problems to end-to-end technology solutions. You should be able to demonstrate the ability to engage in senior level technology and business decision makers’ discussions related to agility, business value, and end to end information technology as a requirement. You are a key enabler for other architects, consultants and partners in our business.
You need to be able to demonstrate a passion for the customer through professionalism and striving for excellence in all aspects of the customer engagement and experience. You need to be able to apply advanced analysis skills and experience in principals of architecture to define appropriate customer solutions. To be credible you should have current and deep experience with implementation of large software systems. Also, you should understand competitive technology and how to properly assess feasibility of migrating customer solutions from, and/or integrating with customer solutions hosted on, non-Microsoft platforms. Advanced domain knowledge in one or more vertical industry is also an asset.
You need to be a leader in demonstrating architecture, planning, deploying solutions including the following:
• Proven experience selling consulting engagements which includes estimating, scoping, and writing effective statements of work that clearly set expectations and limit risk.
• Demonstrated excellence with consulting skills and presenting complex development topics to both business executive and technical personnel
• Consistent record of building deep technical relationships with senior executives and helping to build innovative cloud solutions in large or highly strategic accounts
• Consistent track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with extraordinary verbal and written communication
• Demonstrated excellence when facilitating customer design and awareness sessions that are focused on complex application solution architectures.
• Demonstrated capabilities in developing an understanding of the customer business value associated with the deployment of modern business productivity, system-to-system, and end-user applications.
• An ability to articulate architectural differences between solution methods and the challenges and approaches to integrating solutions built on different platforms including a working knowledge of different architectural frameworks that may be used by our customers.
• Architectural understanding of and implementation experience with the following solution architecture areas: Modern Applications, Business Productivity including but not limited to portal and browser-based workflow solutions, Application Architectures including the use of cloud-based technology capabilities such as Azure and SPO, Application Life Cycle Management and Application Platform processes and technology capabilities, Data and Database Management, SQL/BI, and application middle-ware and messaging architectures.
• Ability to move between high level architectural review/design and the “roll up the sleeves” level of actually doing all phases of an application delivery project.
• Helps customer account teams identify, pursue and close strategic business development opportunities while continually driving add-on business within existing projects. To accomplish this, you need to be effective in fostering executive level relationships. They also play a key role in employing and developing partners as part of the overall Microsoft services delivery model. You will help translate business requirements into technology requirements for inclusion in contracts and/or statements of work (SOW).
• You will be call upon to provide Technical Quality Assurance at various points along a project lifecycle. To be successful you should be able to demonstrate your experience leading projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing multi-phase/multi-dimensional/multi-resource projects to conclusion while maintaining high customer satisfaction.
• The role requires an individual who is resourceful, confident under pressure, and has demonstrated skill in both crisis management and expectation management.
You may come from an enterprise customer, partner and competing organizations and may have played the following types of roles in these organizations; Senior Architect, Chief Architect, Principal Architect or CTO.
We expect you to have a BS/BA degree and/or 10+ years of relevant work experience. MBA or a relevant business degree is an added advantage for combining technical and business skills in this role.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
*Travel is an integral part of this role and may be 50% or more.
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