As a Consultant in our Industry Solutions Delivery team, you will regularly interact with our customers as you consult and guide their teams through largescale and complex migrations to our cloud platform. Your enthusiasm and curiosity will be important as you enable our customers to implement our technology successfully and for them to use it effectively in order to deliver their business outcomes.
This is an opportunity where you will use and develop your technical, hands-on engineering skills, as well as enhance your communication and consulting capability as you assume a key customer-facing role in digital transformation projects.
Microsoft Industry Solutions is a global organization of over 16,000 strategic sellers, industry experts, elite engineers, and world-class architects, consultants, and delivery experts who work together to bring Microsoft’s mission of empowerment – and cutting-edge technology - to life for the world’s most influential customers. We are on the front lines of innovation, working side-by-side with customers to drive value across the entirety of their digital transformation journey.
Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centred 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.
Responsibilities
As a passionate technical expert, you'll engage with external decision-makers, facilitating technical design workshops to translate business needs into Azure solutions.
Some of your key responsibilities will include:
Hands-on solution implementation with your peer consultants
Acting as a technical lead within your specialized area, you'll understand commercial responsibilities and align technical delivery with program milestones, taking accountability for technical risks.
Serving as an advisor and mentor, fostering technical expertise within the Consulting community and your industry vertical.
Collaborating with account teams to strengthen the relationship between sales and delivery and liaising with our product group to access engineers building solutions, all in the pursuit of delivering Microsoft's offerings effectively to customers.
Contributing to pre-sales efforts by shaping deals through understanding business requirements and providing industry and technical insights.
Assisting in drafting proposals and statements of work.
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Embody our culture and valuesQualifications
Your ability to be both technical and commercially minded will be invaluable as you guide and support our customers through complex and impactful business transformations. You will also be able to demonstrate:
Technical proficiency in enterprise scale cloud based solutions with a strong preference for Azure. (ideallydeep knowledge in one, or more, of Azure infrastructure, cloud DevOps practices, cloud-native application development, or application migration strategies.)
Proficiency in relevant programming languages and tools commonly used in cloud environments, such as C#, Python, PowerShell, Bicep/Terraform, ARM, Kubernetes, Docker, and others.
A track record of leading cross-functional teams of consultants in complex cloud projects.
Experience with Cloud-to-Cloud Enterprise Application Migration.
Delivery experience working in feature teams developing Secure-By-Design, Cloud Native Applications in programming languages commonly used in Azure and Microsoft technology ecosystems, such as Python, C#, Java, PowerShell, and JavaScript (Node.js), for application development with a focus on Application Migrations.
Recent experience working with Containers, Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Development, delivering using Agile and SCRUM principles.
Experience with DevOps practices and tools including designing and deploying CI/CD Pipelines for containerization.
Ability to evaluate end-user business requirements, translate them into technical specifications, and then develop and implement the appropriate technical solutions
You should be comfortable taking on technical leadership of smaller programmes of work, or of feature teams within larger deliveries with the support of a Principal Engineer.
industry-recognized certifications or equivalent proven learning and growth related to cloud technologies, especially Azure certifications.
This role requires some travel to client sites, which can be between 25-50% of the time.
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