Cloud Solution Architecture M5

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Microsoft aspires to help our customers achieve their own digital transformation, leveraging the power of Microsoft Cloud solutions and support offerings. To this end, Microsoft invests in a dedicated Customer Success team that will help Microsoft customers successfully realize their business outcomes. Azure is the most comprehensive, innovative, and flexible cloud platform today and Microsoft is hiring professionals that will drive customer cloud adoption within the most important companies in the market. We are always learning. Insatiably curious. We lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from our mistakes. We build on each other’s ideas because we are better together. We stand in awe of what humans dare to achieve and are motivated every day to empower others to do more and achieve more through our technology and innovation. Together we make a difference.

We are looking for an experienced technical leader to drive the Azure Data and AI technical strategy for the Customer Success organization. As the technical leader, you will be manage a team of Cloud Solution Architects and be responsible for developing and executing on the technical strategy in the areas such as SQL Data Modernization, Cloud Scale Analytics, Data Governance, and AI. In this job you will closely interact with customers, Product groups, field roles such as Cloud Solution Architects, Customer Engineers, Customer Success Account Managers. This is highly dynamic and high paced position requiring technical depth and good understanding of the cloud business. The CSA Manager will lead a team of deeply technical Cloud Solution Architects (CSA), focused on Azure Data and AI, to drive growth of Azure Services for a set of Enterprise accounts across different industries.

**Responsibilities**:

- ** People Leader**: Build and grow healthy teams (CSAs) through talent management, diversity and inclusion, coaching, and career development. Respected technology leader with the ability to attract, retain, and develop the most technical resources in the field. Inspire and foster a culture of customer-centricity and consumption, adoption and use through collaboration with peers and extended teams
- ** Empower** your team to accelerate Data Estate Modernization, win with Analytics, innovate with AI including guidance on architectural design, technical recommendations, blocker escalations and technical resource orchestration
- ** Engage** with the area’s most strategic customers as executive sponsor to accelerate digital transformation journey and create a data driven and intelligent driven organization
- Be the **cloud-consumption leader** in the field for your Area, owning the business and results of Data Estate Modernization, winning with Analytics, innovating with AI. Be a vocal leader and customer champion in your Area with both local and corporate leadership to elevate cloud adoption issues and accelerate resolution
- ** Lead **your team to utilize “Well-Architected” framework, such as high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability
- ** Partner** with all required Microsoft stakeholders in the subsidiary to land and drive Data & Analytics/AI CSA role clarity, account coverage, project assignment and effective cross-team collaboration
- ** Drive** operational excellence, including timely consumption opportunity management and high-quality reporting and insights
- ** Inspire** your team to win developer affinity to Azure platform through tech intensity
- ** Exceed** customer support obligations as needed

**Qualifications**:

- ** Management**: 4+ years of experience in people management (**required**) with preferably managing geographically disperse teams across time zones, as well as gained in other leading software and/or services companies/competitor environment
- ** 5**+ years of experience driving change management or technical adoption (**required**)
- Deep domain expertise in one of the Data & AI -specific areas, such as SQL Server, deployments and migrations to the cloud, Open-source database deployments and migrations, Cloud Scale Analytics, Data Governance, Azure AI, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Search, Azure Cognitive Services and Azure Bot Services
- Working knowledge of Azure and/or competitive cloud technologies
- Empathy, curiosity, and desire to constantly improve, acquire new skills and drive for results
- Demonstrated Technical leadership through prior technical coaching/leadership roles
- Prior work experience in other software and/or services compan