As part of this role, you will be responsible for technical customer engagements, working with the most challenging and exciting projects within Microsoft Austria customer base. You will work with select customers to lead deep technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, IT Management and Developers. You will collaborate with a variety of internal and external teams to develop pilots and oversee implementation projects, ensuring technical blockers are removed on adoption. You will drive technical intensity of developers and create communities within customers. And you will collaborate with Product engineering to share feedback into the development of Microsoft products and help develop Azure platforms.

 You are going to work in a team with other Cloud Solution Architects and Customer Engineers spanning all our solution areas and will spearhead the technical evolution of our customers' landscape.

 If you are looking for a unique chance to apply your deep technical skills in real-world projects and enjoy being able to shape what's about to be done, then look no further and join our team.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include: 

Understand customers' overall applications portfolio, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions (Microsoft and 3rd party solutions) using PaaS, DevOps & Advanced Application coding

• Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to empower customers to create a modernization journey roadmap. Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies including Kubernetes, Azure PaaS services (e.g. App Service, Java, containers, serverless, cloud native, etc.) and Application Development with low code options and DevOps and GitHub technologies as appropriate

• Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects and MS stakeholders in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform.

• Ensure all solutions exhibit “Well-Architected” framework, such as high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment

• Run Architectural Design Session to build plan for implementing solution –governing design in line with customer business goals and their technical environment.  Outcome is consensus on solution design and next steps toward production.

• Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates

• Be the Voice of the Customer; Share insights and best practices, and connect with Engineering teams to remove blockers

• Trouble shoot technical issues to prove value of implementation of Azure technologies

• Assess the Customers' knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners · Collaborate with others in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform

• Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community · Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners and external communities

• Build and grow developer communities by driving activities including OpenHacks, Workshops

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field and experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure technologies
• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure).

 Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.