Architect

Overview

​Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

Microsoft Services India Global Delivery delivers end-to-end solutions by enabling accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies. We are looking for exceptional architects who have passion to lead large complex innovative programs for customers.

Architect is a critical role in the solution implementation lifecycle cutting across all phases. Architects are technical leaders with a strong understanding of technology and the ability to apply it to drive business outcomes. Architects lead solution architecture, help with technical design, and provide technical governance throughout the lifecycle of Azure Cloud based solutions. Architects have a passion for the customer which is demonstrated through professionalism and striving for excellence in all aspects of the customer experience.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security) OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security) OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 20+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain OR equivalent experience. 6+ years technical sales experience.  6+ years project management experience. Technical or Professional Certification in Domain

Other Qualifications

Inclusive and collaborative – driving teamwork and cross-team alignment.  Strong partner relationship management and solution development skills.  Conversant knowledge of competing platforms and solutions.  Proven track record of building deep relationships with CXOs  Strong executive presence including communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort to large and small technical audiences. Problem solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, conflict resolution, and follow through with partners.  Orchestration of application development lifecycle.  Experience in vertical industries, proven by projects/solutions implemented with substantial business processes covering Financial and Insurance, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Healthcare/Life Sciences, Retail, or other business to consumer industry scenarios.  Demonstrable architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of complex application architectures  Candidates must also demonstrateability to adapt to new technologies, learn quickly, and understand relevant cloud trends is required.

Responsibilities

Lead client engagements from definition through delivery to ensure technical transformation success for our customers.Collaborate with enterprise customers to scope and define requirements, architect and design solutions, develop, and deliver transformational, customized industry solutions and services.Ensure all solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, repeatability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment​Develop deep relationships with key customer decision makers (both Business and IT) who drive long-term innovation and transformation to our customers product roadmap.​Be a Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers and drive product improvements.​Proactively identify opportunities for integrating modern architecture patterns and emerging technical solutions into the current designEvaluate, identify, mitigate and eliminate risk, provide guidance, and propose immediate solutionsComfortable and effective communicator with all stakeholders, including senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, Developers, Data Scientists, and IT ManagementLead deep technical architecture discussions and development of POCsWork with multiple customers to create Proof of concepts (POCs) / Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) etc. and guide customers to production deployment and operationalization.​Apply technical knowledge and expertise to architect and design solutions that meet business and IT needs, create solution roadmaps, drive POCs and MVPs, and ensure long term technical viability of new deployments, infusing key technologies where appropriateCollaborate with other Architects and technology stakeholders to develop complex end-to-end Enterprise grade solutions.​Create exceptional cross-team collaboration and communication. Partner with all required Microsoft stakeholders and partners to drive role clarity, account coverage, project assignment and effective cross-team collaboration Ensure delivery of high-quality production deployments that are resilient and successful Coach and enable your team members to accelerate innovation programs to production, including guidance on architectural design, technical recommendations, blocker escalations, and technical resource orchestration.

Technology Areas

Application Development

Extensive experienced in implementing, operating, customizing, tuning and troubleshooting Cloud solutions.  Designing scalable solutions on cloud platforms with focus on performance and resiliency, utilizing microservices architectures  Engineering distributed applications within architectural scenarios such as Web and IoT  Application design patterns, and anti-patterns, such as MVC, CQRS and/or SAGA  Interacting with and querying databases and/or NoSQL datastores  Application monitoring and end to end telemetry  Containers for packaging application deployment units and interacting with container-orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, Service Fabric, Cloud Foundry  Defining CI/CD pipelines to automate test and release across different application environments using concepts such as Blue/Green and Canary deployments and related technologies (e.g. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure for DevOps, Chef, Puppet)  Source code management using Git or other source control technologies such as TFS  Open source technologies and frameworks 

Microservices

Comprehensive expertise in microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes  Proficient with Kubernetes ecosystem such as DAPR, ISTIO, HELM, Linkerd.  Software architecture, data structures, modern design patterns, and network protocols  Source control experience including branching, merging and rebasing  Running microservices and container-based workloads in production. 

Core Infrastructure & Security

Modelling cloud infrastructure based on application scale and capacity needs, providing data-driven recommendations to optimize application architecture and performance  Use of architectural patterns and anti-patterns for resiliency and geo-availability  Management, monitoring and operations at-scale, preferably in a cloud environment  Security and governance with a strong proficiency in defining and modelling security baselines Infrastructure-as-Code to build, test and deploy infrastructure for application environments  Open source technologies and frameworks  Strong working knowledge of security controls such as encryption, AuthN/AuthZ Zero Trust Framework principles  Experience supporting large and complex geographically distributed enterprise environments with 10000+ users  OS Internals concepts, load balancing, geo-redundancy, CDN and VPN technologies. 

Data and Analytics

Proficient with one or more Cloud Databases such as Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB  Azure Cosmos DB, database scalability and availability  Data Governance, logging and lineage 

Other

Embody our and 

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect

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