Cloud Solution Architecture

With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft's products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers' expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft's portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.

The Global Customer Success (GCS) organization, an organization within CE&S, is leading the effort to enable customer success on the Microsoft Cloud by harnessing leading, AI-powered capabilities and human expertise to deliver innovation solutions that accelerate business value, drive operational excellence and nurture long term loyalty.

We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) focusing on Modern work to join the Customer Success Team. As part of this role. you will be responsible for technical Customer engagements, working with the most challenging and exciting projects within Microsoft Cloud & on prem customer base part of ABS SA. This customer-facing position is a hands-on technical role spanning across design, build, and operations with a focus on issue.

The role requires coaching team members to focus on customer experience through efficient delivery, driving adherence to Microsoft standards and recommended practices, and providing a holistic perspective of customer challenges and competitor architectures. The role is within the CSA Global Delivery team. It is a centralized group consisting of both full-time employees (FTEs) and Vendor CSAs dedicated to enhancing the customer's experience with Microsoft as they transition to hybrid/public cloud solutions.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

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.

Customer Centricity

• Gathers customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and maps architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer/partner business outcomes. Acts as the voice of the customer (VOC)/partner by driving new feedback, insights, and resources across internal teams to add and prioritize. Represents the customer/partner to internal teams (e.g., Engineering) to shape products and services by providing insights across the territory. Advocates for the customer/partner at all opportunities and shares customer success stories with the wider internal team.

• Guides other team members to focus on customer/partner experience through efficient delivery and ensuring a seamless and connected customer experience. Supports definition of customer/partner conditions of success. Anticipates customer/partner dissatisfaction and unmet needs and executes strategies to improve experience, value realization, and acceleration of customer transformation.

• Actively listens and respectfully challenges customers/partners when going in the wrong direction, presents insights and alternatives, and takes action appropriately.

Business Impact

• Drives customer/partner relationships to anticipate, identify, escalate, and work to resolve technical blockers to accelerate consumption and solution implementations (e.g., by application of technical capabilities). Routes non-technical issues for removal by the appropriate party. Applies broad business and technical knowledge across various architecture or other Microsoft solutions to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified technical constraints. Shapes and enhances customers' requirements.

• Proactively uses knowledge of the products, services, and value propositions of Microsoft and its competitors in customer/partner conversations to identify growth opportunities based on knowledge of customer/partner needs. Contributes to increase in consumption and aligns with Customer Success Account Management or other Account Team members on customer/partner priorities to drive growth in consumption via cost optimization, operational excellence performance efficiency, and security. Drives architecture design, resiliency reviews, and technical optimization that result in production deployment application and increase customer/partner usage and consumption. Ensures that the customer/partner's application has as few points of failure as possible. Consults and provides thought leadership for technical solution design, development, and deployment and supports the customer/partner throughout implementation to achieve value outcomes and Microsoft's Customer Promise.

• Understands industry trends and the competitor's architecture solutions and identifies Microsoft's strengths over competitive solutions to drive conversations with customers/partners and convince them of solution.

Technical Leadership

• Demonstrate the capability to act as CSA Pod Lead with ability to drive planning and delivery of Pod team by engaging CSAM and ATU, manage customer relationship by conducting monthly engagement reviews and assuring quality and be accountable for capacity planning, hiring, skilling and utilization of Pod members.

• Proactively develops technical and professional learning and development plan in alignment with and support from their manager. Role models effective technical readiness. Acts as a mentor and role model to less experienced colleagues to educate them on technical and non-technical concepts. Participates in development opportunities (e.g., Ready, Build, Ignite).

• Shares ideas, insights, and strategic technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using a thorough knowledge of specific Microsoft products and their context in the competitive landscape. Participates in external technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and shares learnings with the internal team.

• Generates new ideas for changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and processes for designated customers/partners. Drives opportunities for IP reuse, best practice sharing, and consumption acceleration. Proactively identifies gaps through delivery and communicating those gaps to others (e.g., Leadership, managed intellectual property [MIP], Design, and Governance). Applies subject matter expertise to develop new IP that fills identified gaps

Important key criteria:

• Should have potential to scale as CSA Pod Lead with ability to lead planning and delivery of vendor Pod team by engaging account team

• Manage customer relationship by conducting monthly engagement reviews and assuring quality and be accountable for capacity planning, hiring, skilling and utilization of Pod members.

Additional details

You will work closely with clients to optimize their Microsoft Teams environment—including Teams Telephony, governance, and integration with the broader Microsoft 365 ecosystem—and to design and deploy impactful employee experience solutions using Microsoft Viva: Learning, Engage, Connections, Amplify, and Goals.

Viva-Specific Responsibilities

• Viva Connections:

o Design the home site and information architecture using SharePoint Online; configure dashboard, feeds, and resources; set up audience targeting, branding, and global navigation.

o Implement Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) and govern rollout via Teams app policies and pinning strategies.

• Viva Engage:

o Develop community strategy, governance, and moderation; enable leadership engagement, campaigns, storylines, and Q&A experiences.

o Establish community lifecycle, compliance, and analytics reporting (engagement metrics, sentiment themes); guide transition from legacy Yammer experiences where applicable.

• Viva Learning:

o Integrate content sources (e.g., Microsoft Learn, LinkedIn Learning, and supported LMS providers); configure learning hubs, featured content, and role-based learning paths.

o Set up assignment & tracking workflows in Teams, with reporting on completions and compliance training outcomes.

• Viva Amplify:

o Stand up centralized campaign management for corporate comms; build multi-channel publishing (Outlook, SharePoint, Teams) with approvals, templates, and scheduling.

o Define measurement plans and dashboards for campaign reach, engagement, and call-to-action performance.

• Viva Insights:

o Deploy and configure Personal, Manager, and Leader Insights experiences to drive wellbeing, productivity, and collaboration improvements.

o Implement Advanced Insights and Workplace Analytics for organisational trend analysis, meeting culture optimisation, and focus time strategies.

o Define privacy-compliant data governance for insights reporting and ensure alignment with HR and compliance teams.

o Build dashboards and actionable recommendations for leadership to improve employee engagement and reduce burnout.

Required/minimum qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.

4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).

4+ years experience working on technical projects.

Technical Skills – Solution Area: Microsoft Teams + Viva Suite + Teams Telephony

Microsoft Teams & Telephony

• Deep expertise in Microsoft Teams, including Teams Telephony, Direct Routing, Calling Plans, and Operator Connect.
• Experience with Teams administration, policy management, compliance, and security configurations.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing Teams governance frameworks and Center of Excellence (CoE) initiatives.
• PowerShell scripting for Teams and Microsoft 365 administration.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Purview for data governance and compliance (DLP, sensitivity labels, eDiscovery).
• Familiarity with Microsoft Graph API for automation and integration (plus).
• Experience with Microsoft Intune for device and app management (plus).
• Exposure to Microsoft Teams Rooms setup and management (desirable).
• Development experience (e.g., Teams app development, custom connectors, message extensions) is optional but beneficial.

Microsoft Viva (Learning, Engage, Connections, Amplify, Goals)

• Viva Connections: SharePoint Online architecture, home site setup, ACEs, dashboard design, audience targeting, and Teams app deployment/pinning strategies.
• Viva Engage: Community architecture and governance, leadership engagement programs, campaigns, moderation policies, analytics/insights, and content lifecycle.
• Viva Learning: Connector setup with content providers and supported LMS; role-/function-based learning paths; assignment, curation, and completion reporting in Teams.
• Viva Amplify: Campaign planning, template governance, multi-channel orchestration (Outlook/SharePoint/Teams), approvals, and analytics dashboards.
• Viva Insights:

o Expertise in configuring Personal Insights, Manager Insights, and Leader Insights dashboards.

o Experience with Workplace Analytics queries, metric interpretation, and actionable recommendations.

o Ability to integrate Viva Insights with Power BI for advanced reporting and executive dashboards.

o Knowledge of privacy, compliance, and data anonymisation principles for insights deployment.

Broader Microsoft 365 Integration

• Strong understanding of Microsoft 365 services and integration points with Teams and Viva (e.g., Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Power Platform).
• Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps, Dataverse for Teams) for extending employee experiences and automations.
• At least 5 years of experience with cloud and hybrid/on-premises infrastructures, architecture design, migrations, and technology management.
• Ability to lead disaster recovery planning, voice architecture design, and performance tuning for Teams environments.
• Proactively develops and executes a technical and professional learning plan with manager support.
• Acts as a mentor and role model to less experienced colleagues.
• Shares strategic insights and technical input across internal and external communities.
• Participates in external technical events (e.g., conferences, webinars, hackathons) and shares learnings internally.

Microsoft Teams Administrator Associate (or equivalent current Teams certification)

Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals (MS-900)

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