Microsoft Innovation Hub is a premium customer-facing facility, built to help enterprise customers solve their business challenges. We build innovative cross-workload solutions by delivering deep technical engagements. Our senior architects help customers understand what\xe2\x80\x99s possible and make it real \xe2\x80\x93 with a range of highly tailored single or multi-day engagements.As a Technical Architect in the Microsoft Innovation Hub, you will be working at the forefront of Microsoft innovation, helping customers create and implement a vision and strategy for their digital transformation. You will be an integral part of their transformation journey, challenging their ways of thinking and helping them realize and adopt the benefits of our Cloud. Part of a world-wide community of exceptional peers, you\xe2\x80\x99ll have access to the latest software andhardware, and you\xe2\x80\x99ll be given the time and budget to develop as a globally influential technical leader. This role is Microsoft onsite only.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:

• Deliver customer engagements: Based at your facility location, you will prepare and deliver technical engagements to enterprise customers. These include Business envisioning, Solution envisioning, Architecture design, Rapid prototype, and Hackathon. You take a cross-solution view to leverage capabilities across the entire Microsoft cloud platform. You will work collaboratively with account teams to determine the best engagements for a given opportunity to maximize customer benefit and accelerate deals success.
• Solution design: Using your technical knowledge, architectural approach, consultancy skills and our methodology to win a customer\xe2\x80\x99s technical decision to buy and use Microsoft solutions and cloud services.
• Set vision: You will use your technical knowledge to show customers an inspiring digital vision, across all Microsoft workloads, as well as deeper engagement in your core technology specialism. You will make this digital vision real using the architecture skills of you and your peers to provide a complete solution.
• Build strategy: You will map the agreed customer vision into a strategy for implementation, resolving concerns, removing technical blockers, and validating a strong business case for investment. You will work with the customer, wider account team resources and our partners to orchestrate a roadmap for implementation.
• An expert in modern workplace: Guide business and technical decision makers on creating business value on top of the Microsoft 365 platform. Synthesize business and technical architecture requirements. Serve as the as the go-to technical expert in the Microsoft 365 space for the regional sales teams. The opportunity to deliver speaking engagements evangelizing Microsoft 365 in business conferences.

Qualifications:Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)

• 8+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

• OR Bachelor\'s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs):Structured facilitator. Validated customer experience in requirements capture; prioritization; capturing evidence and impact to quantify business value; issue, risk and constraint identificationTechnical breadth. Intermediate level experience across the full range of Microsoft cloud solutions \xe2\x80\x93 Azure infrastructure, Azure Developer, Azure data, artificial intelligence, business applications, modern workplace and productivity, security, business applications. Demonstrated experience of solution architectures which span multiple workloadsDesign Thinking. Proven experience of delivering design thinking; \xe2\x80\x98ideation\xe2\x80\x99; or similar context analysis / problem framing.Technical depth. Experience as a solutions architect or equivalent in the area of Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s modern workplace toolset.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 .

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