Cloud Solution Architect

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond

The India Global Partner Solutions (GPS) is focused on building the most profitable and impactful partner ecosystem in the world. We help our partners build innovative technical solutions, develop their technical skills & abilities, and successfully sell & deploy with our joint customers.

**Responsibilities**:
Partner Enablement and Execution
- Enablement Execution: Lead and/or contribute to the delivery of workshops, bootcamps, and trainings necessary to build partners’ technical skills
- Technical Engagement: Lead deep technical engagements, including; Briefings, Proof of Concepts, Architectural Design Sessions, and Hackathons
- Best Practice Sharing: Collaborate with Microsoft’s Engineering teams to generate technical insight and enable best practices sharing
- Solution Development: Aid partners to develop and implement high quality solutions and/or services leveraging Microsoft’s latest technologies
- Evangelism: Evangelize partners’ practices and solutions in customers’ implementations via Technical briefings and Architecture Review Sessions
- Tech Sales: Enable partners on technical pre-sales skills while supporting initial partners’ wins and work to unblock technical issues.
- You will collaborate with a virtual team of experts and influence the Microsoft Azure infrastructure go-to-market strategies by providing feedback to sales, marketing, and engineering on current and future product requirements and market blockers.
- You will work with our partner and engineering ensuring that the product truth is grounded in technical excellence, continuously identifying opportunities to help meet/exceed the scale, performance, security, reliability, and operational efficiency goals for our customers.
- Contribute to virtual teams of partner, engineering and field resources to build new Azure healthcare partner practices and solutions.
- Develop and maintain your deep technical expertise across Microsoft and non-Microsoft cloud-based infrastructure technologies.

**Qualifications**:
**Required/Minimum Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 6+ years experience in Microsoft Dynamics (ERP) and Business Central technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, implementation/delivery software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting

**Additional or Preferred Qualifications**:

- Proven track record of building deep technical sales relationships with CXOs and practice building executives in ISVs and SIs.
- Ability to solve Partner problems and unblock technical issues, leveraging internal and/or external resources.
- Deep understanding of Microsoft Cloud Solution Area products and services, and knowledge of market business environment
- Understanding of Microsoft Business Applications products and/or complementing solutions. The position requires the ability to articulate and present the business value of Microsoft's solutions and have a firm understanding of Microsoft's strategies and products relative to major Microsoft competitors preferred.
- Strong record of accomplishment of implementing Buisness Applications in a variety of Enterprise Applications.