Cloud Solution Architect Manager – Microsoft

As a Cloud Solution Architect Manager of architects focused on empowering customers to reach their ambitions utilising our Azure Data, AI and Apps.

In the Customer Success team, we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Cloud Solution Architect Manager, you will lead a team who enable customers to achieve their outcomes, based on patterns of success, and their investments in Microsoft technology. Leveraging your leading technical team’s expertise, you will inspire the team to ensure customers get value from their Microsoft investments.

Microsoft aspires to help our customers architect and deploy first class cloud infrastructure solutions in Azure to be AI Ready by applying scalable best practices in the cloud with Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework (WAF).   Azure is the most comprehensive, innovative, and flexible cloud platform today and Microsoft is hiring professionals that will drive customer cloud adoption for AI Innovation within the most important companies in the market.

• You will build and grow teams through talent management, diversity and inclusion, coaching, and career development. Inspire and foster a culture of customer-centricity and consumption, adoption and through collaboration with peers and extended teams and develop a team that incorporates a mix of expertise across key workloads and lead them through changes using the Demonstrated Capability Framework
• You will lead your team to deliver positive Customer Satisfaction, and coach them to become trusted advisors to customers and partners, by leveraging Azure Data, AI and Apps services to operate AI solutions at scale and enable defined Customer Success Plan outcomes. Coach the team to provide feedback & insights from customers/partners back to the relevant MS teams including Product Groups, to enable continuous improvement and AI Innovation.
• As the cloud-consumption leader, owning the business and results you will be the vocal leader and customer champion with both local and corporate leadership to elevate cloud adoption issues and accelerate resolution.
• You will empower your team to win and accelerate application and AI innovation projects to production, including guidance on architectural design, required services to operate AI solutions at scale, including Infrastructure, Data, Networking, Security, and Management, technical recommendations, blocker escalations and technical resource orchestration.
• You will engage with the area’s most strategic customers as executive sponsor to accelerate digital and AI transformation and help customers build microservices architectures with scalable databases to capture innovation. Accountability to ensure revenue and business metric are achieved.
• You will lead your team to utilize “Well-Architected” framework, such as high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability with an emphasis on Networking, Zonal/multi-region, and Security and partner with all required Microsoft stakeholders in the subsidiary to land and drive CSA role clarity, account coverage, project assignment and effective cross-team collaboration.
• You will foster a continuous self-learning culture and drive technical intensity, to enable customers to realize desired business outcomes, including innovation. Model impactful community engagement, sharing learnings and best practices, and coach inclusivity.