Cloud Solutions Architecture Manager – Azure App Innovation

Responsibilities

People Management

• Lead the Azure App Innovation team by delivering 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.

Understanding Customer/Partner Technical Environment

• Holds the Azure App Innovation team accountable for mapping customer/partner business requirements to architecture and digital transformation solutions in the domain of cloud native application development.
• Drive the business outcomes by advocating the use of Cloud Adoption Framework, Well-Architected Framework, Enterprise Scale Landing Zone, and other frameworks and methodologies.
• Manages the business and coaches Cloud Solution Architects (CSAs) to lead architecture design, resiliency reviews, and technical optimization across multiple applications for the customer, resulting in increased customer business value.
• Support the Azure App Innovation team in gathering, evaluating, and leveraging industry trends and customer/partner technical insights.

Architecture Design and Deployment

• Holds teams accountable for leveraging existing architecture approaches to achieve Microsoft’s agreed commitments to the customer/partner and develops new solutions to scale across the customers/partners landscape.
• Ensures architects are equipped with the capabilities and means to deliver architectural demonstrations while taking into account complex technical requirements and various technical strategies being proposed.
• Provides thought leadership for related business strategy development and guides architect team in supporting/driving the customer/partner throughout pre-sales and implementation.

Practice Development

• Connects gaps and patterns across business and technology areas, and drives changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and/or processes that enable solutions to scale across customers. drives sales and consumption, as well as IP re-use and best practice sharing.

Trusted Advisor

• Develops and expands existing impactful relationships with customer and partner/MCS architects, C-level technical decision makers (TDMs), and business stakeholders (to the extent that the customer/partner will call for consultation without being prompted). Provides direction to TDMs and builds the bridge between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs).
• Drives thought leadership by participating in external architect community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons), and by building a community to share learnings and to leverage pre-existing resources.
• Coaches the team to create and sustains constructive tension and trust with customers/partners by respectfully challenging their decisions and/or areas where they might do more, explaining cost impacts, project context, business value, etc., and encouraging them to consider alternative architectures and approaches.

Other

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure technologies
  • OR Master’s Degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure technologies
  • OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure technologies
  • OR Master’s Degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure technologies
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Cloud native software development experience.
• Technical sales experience.
• Project management experience.
• People management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, and/or technical architect managers.