Job Description

The Global Partner Solutions (GPS) team is a sales organization accountable for the commercial partner business at Microsoft, and the mission is to build and sell Microsoft Cloud applications, services and devices with partners, empowering people, and organizations to achieve more.


As a Partner solution architect. This opportunity is to accelrate your careeer growth, develop deep technical and business acument with selling skill adn become adept at deal structuring for partners who will help scale the business.


Through our partners, Microsoft creates solutions which help companies empower their employees, engage their customers, optimize their operations, and transform their products. This opportunity will allow you to focus on Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s technology priorities and drive penetration of Cloud Solution Area workloads with our most significant partners. You will provide deep technical coaching aiding partners to develop impactful solutions and services for our customers. Leveraging your experience you will validate partners\xe2\x80\x99 technology architecture, assist them to overcome technical blockers, and aid them to win early customers, and realize consumption and usage results from their solutions and services.
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. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission. To learn more about Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s mission, please visit: https://careers.microsoft.com/mission-culture.


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

Partner Enablement and Execution

• Enablement Execution: Lead and/or contribute to the delivery of workshops, bootcamps, and trainings necessary to build partners\xe2\x80\x99 technical skills
• Technical Engagement: Lead deep technical engagements, including; Briefings, Proof of Concepts, Architectural Design Sessions, and Hackathons
• Best Practice Sharing: Collaborate with Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s latest technologies
• Evangelism: Evangelize partners\xe2\x80\x99 practices and solutions in customers\xe2\x80\x99 implementations via Technical briefings and Architecture Review Sessions
• Tech Sales: Enable partners on technical pre-sales skills while supporting initial partners\xe2\x80\x99 wins and work to unblock technical issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineer or related field preferred
• Deep Technical Skills on : Cloud, mobile, web application development, cloud-native application architecture (i.e., containers, microservices, API management), modern software development techniques like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e., Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure developer services, GitHub) and container orchestration systems (i.e., AKS, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Azure), Prosci
• SME in DevOps/GitHub capabilities, fluent in cloud application patterns and be a practitioner of one or more enterprise languages .Net, Java, JavaScript/Node.js, Python, etc. And related frameworks.
• Experience with MS Developer tooling such as Visual Studio, VSCode, Azure DevOps and GitHub or competitive tools and Microsoft or competitor equivalent (e.g., AWS) certification in relevant developer technologies.
• Proven track record of building deep technical sales relationships with CXOs and practice building executives in MSP, CD 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

6-12 years of success in consultative/complex technical sales, technology solutions/practice development, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications required 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.