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.

With over 15,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience and Success (CEnS) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of the Microsoft end-to-end customer experience. This newly expanded organization reflects the Microsoft ambition to be known as a customer experience company, ensuring our Microsoft mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is enabled by delighting customers and consistently exceeding their expectations in every interaction through a connected customer experience.

Microsoft has a tremendous opportunity to exceed customer expectations and drive greater customer loyalty and trust, which leads to greater satisfaction, retention, and growth. The CEnS organization is looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success to help us build a future where customers come to us, not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, and also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience that is rooted in our commitment to delivering on customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities:

Provides Partners with Guidance and acts as Trusted Advisor

• Helps Partners during the presales to deployment lifecycle on a range of technical topics. Guides Partners’ thinking through active listening, questioning, and reflecting. Provides vital insight and seamless service to help define needs and then provide advice within area of expertise.

• Consults Partners through courses of action by helping to find appropriate solutions to enable new customer sales or optimization of existing customer deployments

• Builds lasting relationships through effective technical engagement in Consulting Services, enhancing Partner Experience and helping build Partner competency and capacity.

• Cultivates Trusted Advisor Relationship to accelerate Partner adoption and productive use/development of Microsoft solutions.

Delivers 1:1 Technical Consultations to aid with Technical Presales and Advisory Services

• Performs scoping activities, reacts confidently on Partner requests and set up proper expectations.

• Takes on requests with medium to high level of complexity and resolves them in a timely manner.

• Delivers 1:1 service with good efficiency regarding preparation, delivery and admin time.

• Contributes to technical triage and technical reviews in area of expertise.

Maintains Solution Area Readiness and Technical Expertise

• Maintains up-to-date technical/ industry knowledge and demonstrate “Experienced” or “Expert” technical expertise of Cloud Application Development and technologies

• Shares knowledge and resources globally.

• Develops best practices for Solution Area and develop/ deliver internal tech-talks/ brown-bags at level to improve team readiness.

Qualifications

Technical Qualifications:

Data&AI profile, with solid knowledge and experience on consulting/developing using Microsoft Cloud Technologies

Deep technical or architectural knowledge of following areas preferred: 

• Database administration (Data platform including Azure SQL/OSS DB) – performance tuning, troubleshooting, high availability / disaster recovery, security. 

• Database development (Data platform including Azure SQL/OSS DB) – designing and building database solutions (tables / stored procedures / forms / queries / etc.).  

• Business intelligence – Good technical and architectural understanding of business intelligence (combining knowledge of Microsoft BI technologies. i.e. SSIS/SSAS/SSRS/Power BI), advanced data analytics and Cognitive Services will be a plus

• Advanced data analytics – designing and building solutions using technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, HD Insights, Synapse Analytics, stream analytics, machine learning, R server. 

• Big Data & AI technologies –Cognitive Service, Azure ML, Databricks, Spark, Kafka, HDInsight, HDFS

Good knowledge of Microsoft Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services and infrastructure components (virtual machines, virtual network, IP address etc.) supporting capability of deliver end-to-end cloud ready solutions.

Willingness to learn multiple different technologies across different Solution Areas

Customer and Partner Focus: Demonstrated skills and abilities to consistently create an amazingly positive experience for Partners.

Change management: Articulate product strategic direction along with its business benefits and empower partners in embracing the change.

Business Qualifications:

• Ability to confidently deliver solution guidance.

• Capable of building and sustaining strong technical relationships as a trusted advisor.

• Must have the ability to collaborate across multiple teams.

• Must possess strong Active Listening Skills.

• Ability to analyze and drive to root cause of a problem.

• Previous experience in a consulting position helpful.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and / or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire / transfer and every two years thereafter.

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.

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