Cloud Solution Architect Manager

Toronto, ON, Canada

Job Description



With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s products, services, and partnerships. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.


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 run a team who enable customers to achieve their outcomes, based on their investments in Microsoft technology. Leveraging your leading technical team\xe2\x80\x99s expertise, you will drive the team to ensure customers get value from their MS investments. Microsoft aspires to help our customers architect and deploy first class cloud infrastructure solutions in Azure 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 within the most important companies in the market. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.


Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s 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.

Responsibilities


People Management
  • Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
  • Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
  • Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
  • Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual\xe2\x80\x99s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.

Customer Centricity
  • Lead your team to deliver positive Customer Satisfaction, and coach them to become trusted advisors to customers and partners, by leveraging Azure Infrastructure expertise to 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.
  • Be the cloud-consumption leader, owning the business and results. Vocal leader and customer champion with both local and corporate leadership to elevate cloud adoption issues and accelerate resolution.

Business Impact
  • Empower your team to win and accelerate application innovation projects to production, including guidance on architectural design, technical recommendations, blocker escalations and technical resource orchestration. Engage with the area\xe2\x80\x99s most strategic customers as executive sponsor to accelerate digital transformation and help customers build microservices architectures with scalable databases to capture innovation. Accountability to ensure revenue and business metric are achieved.
  • Lead your team to utilize \xe2\x80\x9cWell-Architected\xe2\x80\x9d 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 CSA role clarity, account coverage, project assignment and effective cross-team collaboration.

Technical Leadership
  • Foster a continuous self-learning culture and drive technical intensity, to enable customers to realize desired business outcomes, including innovation. Model impactful community engagement and coach team.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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 equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years people management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, and/or technical architect managers.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor\'s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 12+ 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, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
  • 6+ years experience leading technical projects, teams, or functions.
  • Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).
  • 5+ years people management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, and/or technical architect managers.



Cloud Solution Architecture M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $118,800 - CAD $214,800 per year.


Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html


Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD2261477
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
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  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Toronto, ON, Canada
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