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With over 15,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience and Success (CEnS) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of the Microsoft end-to-end customer experience. This newly expanded organization reflects the Microsoft ambition to be known as a customer experience company, ensuring our Microsoft mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is enabled by delighting customers and consistently exceeding their expectations in every interaction through a connected customer experience.

Microsoft has a tremendous opportunity to exceed customer expectations and drive greater customer loyalty and trust, which leads to greater satisfaction, retention, and growth. The CEnS organization is looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success to help us build a future where customers come to us, not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, and also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience that is rooted in our commitment to delivering on customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

Title : Partner Technical Consultant-Azure Application Development

Responsibilities,

The role is responsible for facilitating the delivery of consultative services for enabling Microsoft Partners. The role supports Microsoft partners in accelerating their growth by helping them build the right level of expertise and support them through the entire solution lifecycle.

The focus is on helping Partners grow their cloud practice and build competencies around Microsoft technologies and design methodologies. The role is primarily technical with a strong solution focus.

You will find yourself in a variety of technical activities – Providing pre-sales technical support to Partners, working on a proof of concept, architectural guidance and learning plans for our Partners in North America. You will play a key role in driving the Digital Transformation strategy for our Customers through the Microsoft Partner Channel.

Successful candidate will need to have the drive and intellectual horsepower to act as a Consultant, Architect and Technical Trusted Advisor to enable Partners build their capabilities on our Cloud Technologies portfolio.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Possess deep technical expertise and can solve complex technical problems
• Appreciate working on Deployment of Services, Presales activities as well as supporting Partners in these areas.
• Possess the knowledge and personal conviction to articulate value proposition of cloud technologies.
• Demonstrate critical thinking, strong communication skills and ability to develop ongoing customer and partners relationships.
• Enjoy team work, and actively contribute to their peer group as well as our customer account teams.

Experience and Skills required:

Technical Skills

Microsoft Azure

Required Level :

• Azure Compute (App Service, Service Fabric, Azure Functions, Azure Kubernetes Service)
• Azure Networking (Application Gateway, Content Delivery Network, Traffic Manager, Load Balancer)
• Azure Data Store (Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, Azure Redis Cache, Azure Storage)
• Azure Developer Tools (Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Application Insights, API Management)
• AI (Bot Service, Cognitive Services)

Preferred Level:
• Machine Learning (Machine Learning Studio, Deep Learning, CNTK)
• Analytics (Power BI, Power BI Embedded, Azure Databricks)
• IoT (IoT Hub, Stream Analytics, Event Hubs, IoT Edge, Time Series Insights)

Software Architectures
• N-tier, Web-Queue-Worker, Microservices, CQRS, Event-driven architecture

Programming Languages
• C# or Node.js (required), Python/SQL/U-SQL (REQUIRED)
• Software Development practices

• DevOps, Scrum, Kanban

Modern development concepts
• Be familiar with modern development concepts like Serverless, Microservices and Containers

Language skills required:
• Advanced English level

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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