Cloud Solution Architect - Partner Practice Building & IP Development

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.

IP Governance Lead CSAforSupport,Azure, ABS,andSecurityis responsible formapping existing Skilling and IP in the Solutions Catalog to Attributes in the Partner Maturity Framework.IP Governance CSA consistently gathers feedback from Service Delivery leaders in Partner organizations and Top 50 Partner CSAMs toidentifygaps in IP. Based on these gaps, the IP Governance CSA works with Global Customer Success (GCS) Global Solution Area (GSA) and Customer Service & Support (CSS) teams to develop new IP and Skilling. This role also partners closely with the Partner Success Manager (PSM) community to deliver Skilling to Partners through 1: many motion and with CSA community to deliver IP to partners. The role gathers feedback from CSAMs and Partners on IP deliveries from CSAs and Skilling deliveries from PSMs and provides that feedback to CSA and PSM role owners toidentifyareas of CSA and PSM improvement.

IP Governance CSA is also responsible for deeply understandingthe GSA roadmap for Proactive priorities for the Solutions Portfolio and publicly available skilling collateral. In turn, the role ensuresTop 50 CSP partners fully understand the roadmap for Solutions Portfolio priorities by developing bi-annual roadmap updates for Solution Areas. The role works withPractice Builder CSA counterpart to develop the CSAM Playbook for Practice Builder Action Planningby mapping deliveries to maturity attributes and strategic workload priorities. They serve as a trusted advisor to Top 50 CSA Partner CSAMs to help map skilling and IPto gapsin Partner maturity. The roleidentifiesthe most common gaps in Partner maturityand develops1: many IP/Skilling and Agentic experiences to close gaps.

The rolemeetswith25% of Partner Service Delivery leaders for Top 50CSPPartners Quarterly. IP Governance CSAis responsible fordevelopingmeasures to track increase in Enhanced offtake and report monthlyon progress. Other core role indicators include# of Skilling& IP developed, and# of Skilling/IP delivered to Partners. The role also develops1: many IP governance to standardize the approach across solution areas.

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• Understand the GSA roadmap for Proactive priorities for the Solutions Portfolio and publicly available skilling collateral

• Ensure Top 50 CSP partners fully understand the roadmap for Solutions Portfolio priorities by developing bi-annual roadmap updates for Solution Areas

• Work with GSA teams to deeply understand the mapping of IP in the Solutions Catalog and connect IP delivery to Partner Capability & Maturity attributes in the Practice Builder Assessments

• Partner with Practice Builder CSA counterpart to develop the CSAM Playbook for Practice Builder Action Planning

• Serve as a trusted advisor to Top 50 CSA Partner CSAMs to help map skilling and IP to gaps in Partner maturity

• Consistently gather feedback from Partners and CSAMs ongapin existing Skilling & IP. Work with GSA teams to develop new IP

• Identifythe most common gaps in Partner maturity. Develop 1: many IP/Skilling and Agentic experiences to close gaps

• Meet with 25% of Partner Service Delivery leaders for Top 50 Partners Quarterly

• Develop measures to track increase in Enhanced offtake and report monthly. Other core role indicators include # of Skilling & IP developed, and # of Skilling/IP delivered to Partners

Required 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.

Other Requirements:

• Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this roledue to the nature of the role's job duties.

• 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 Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).

• Experience building a product or program from 0 to 1 with 2k+ users

  5+ years of experience working with Partners or within a Partner ecosystem

  • 5+ years of experience working with a major cloud service provider

  • Hands-on experience with developing learning, onboarding, trainingcollateraland/or Intellectual Property (VBDs, Tech Talks, etc.) for field audiences

  • Deep understandingof the Azure & Security Solution Plays and GTM

  • Familiarity with publicly available skilling across Azure and Security

  • Demonstrated project management, leadership, and cross-group collaboration skills

  • Ability to work through ambiguous situations with a can-do attitude and proactivelydeterminecreative solutions

  • Proven ability to secure sponsorship and support from senior executives

  • Experience withdevelopingAgentic and/orDigital experiences

  • Experience with managing a large customer or partner program and/or benefit

  • Experience delivering solutions and tools within Microsoft

  • Desire tooperateat the intersection of technology and business, spearheading organizational, operational, and technological change.

  • Deep understanding of cloud technology markets, trends, and dynamics

  • Demonstrated ability to excel in an innovative, startup-like, fast-paced environment, with rapid exploration and ability to execute

  • Ability to manage multiple simultaneous high-priority projects(oftenincluding project management of cross-functional v-teams).

  • Comfortable illustrating lessons learned and sharing subject-matter-expertiseacross a matrixed organization

  • Proventrack recordor delivering complexprojects with matrixed V-Teams within challenging deadlines

Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400.00 - $203,600.00 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600.00 - $222,600.00 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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