Microsoft Corporation
Senior Manager-Cloud Solution Architect - CTJ - Top Secret
Microsoft Corporation, Reston, Virginia, United States, 22090
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Microsoft Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture embraces a growth mindset, inspires excellence, and encourages teams and leaders to bring their best each day. You can help us achieve our mission. Overview
Senior Manager-Cloud Solutions Architect leads a team of Data & AI Cloud Solution Architects to enable customers to achieve their goals and outcomes based on Microsoft technology investments. You will drive a team responsible for key infrastructure technologies and concepts such as SQL, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, Data Science, and AI/ML. Responsibilities
Hire, onboard, develop, coach, mentor and evaluate Data & AI Architects and Engineers. Set a clear bar for role excellence, collaboration, and delivering impact. Build and maintain a diverse and inclusive team of Data Science and AI professionals with a passion for exceeding customer expectations. Demonstrate exceptional cross-team collaboration and communication. Partner with stakeholders to land and drive role clarity, account coverage, project assignment and effective cross-team collaboration. Enable the team to establish customer relationships with executives in Infrastructure roles while building your own relationships; create a comprehensive partnership with the customer throughout their ownership lifecycle to maximize usage. Ensure high-quality production deployments that are resilient and successful. Drive operational excellence, including timely consumption opportunity management and high-quality reporting and insights. Engage with strategic customers as executive sponsor to accelerate Azure adoption and help customers improve their infrastructure posture. Customer Centricity
Lead the team to deliver positive Customer Satisfaction and coach them to become trusted advisors to customers and partners, leveraging domain expertise to enable defined Customer Success Plan outcomes. Coach the team to provide feedback and insights from customers/partners to relevant Microsoft teams to enable continuous improvement. Business Impact
Manage the consumption business of Solutions and Support to achieve business goals and deliver customer value. Develop opportunities to drive Customer Success by engaging with technical decision makers to show Microsofts security value proposition and value from Microsoft technology. Accelerate resolution of customer blockers by guiding the team to address issues blocking go-live and leading technical conversations with customers while following Microsoft best practices and policies. People Leadership
Model our culture and values by leading the team through change and helping them understand the business model and role changes. Coach the team on driving customer outcomes and continuous learning. Support skills and capability development, ensuring the right mix of talents to achieve business goals. Technical Leadership
Foster a self-learning mindset and align individual and team skilling with customer success goals. Accelerate customer outcomes by engaging with relevant communities, contributing to IP, and sharing learnings to accelerate transformation. Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 6+ years of experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, IT consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture and/or consulting OR equivalent experience. Experience mapping customer needs to technical solutions. Technical understanding of the security industry and competitive solutions. Certification in one or more of the following technologies: Microsoft Azure technologies, or AI certifications. Additional or Preferred Qualifications
Bachelors Degree in relevant fields with 8+ years of experience, or Masters Degree with 6+ years, in cloud/infrastructure technologies, IT consulting/support, architecture, or equivalent experience. 4+ years in a customer-facing role and 4+ years leading technical projects, teams, or functions. Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google) or security. 3+ years people management experience (e.g., managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, or technical architect managers). Experience in Data Science, AI/ML and related technologies such as Data Center migrations, Azure Landing Zones, Cloud Networking. 2+ years experience driving change management or technical adoption. Demonstrated technical leadership and coaching experience. Security and Other Requirements
Active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance required. Must meet Microsoft, customer and government security screening requirements. Clearance verification may be required prior to offer of employment. Microsoft Cloud Background Check required upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Citizenship verification is required due to legal restrictions for certain government work. Compensation
The typical base pay range for this role is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. A different range may apply by location (San Francisco Bay Area and NYC metro). Details and benefits information available here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay Microsoft will accept applications until November 10, 2025. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, learn more about requesting accommodations. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Senior Manager-Cloud Solution Architect - CTJ - Top Secret
role at
Microsoft Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture embraces a growth mindset, inspires excellence, and encourages teams and leaders to bring their best each day. You can help us achieve our mission. Overview
Senior Manager-Cloud Solutions Architect leads a team of Data & AI Cloud Solution Architects to enable customers to achieve their goals and outcomes based on Microsoft technology investments. You will drive a team responsible for key infrastructure technologies and concepts such as SQL, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, Data Science, and AI/ML. Responsibilities
Hire, onboard, develop, coach, mentor and evaluate Data & AI Architects and Engineers. Set a clear bar for role excellence, collaboration, and delivering impact. Build and maintain a diverse and inclusive team of Data Science and AI professionals with a passion for exceeding customer expectations. Demonstrate exceptional cross-team collaboration and communication. Partner with stakeholders to land and drive role clarity, account coverage, project assignment and effective cross-team collaboration. Enable the team to establish customer relationships with executives in Infrastructure roles while building your own relationships; create a comprehensive partnership with the customer throughout their ownership lifecycle to maximize usage. Ensure high-quality production deployments that are resilient and successful. Drive operational excellence, including timely consumption opportunity management and high-quality reporting and insights. Engage with strategic customers as executive sponsor to accelerate Azure adoption and help customers improve their infrastructure posture. Customer Centricity
Lead the team to deliver positive Customer Satisfaction and coach them to become trusted advisors to customers and partners, leveraging domain expertise to enable defined Customer Success Plan outcomes. Coach the team to provide feedback and insights from customers/partners to relevant Microsoft teams to enable continuous improvement. Business Impact
Manage the consumption business of Solutions and Support to achieve business goals and deliver customer value. Develop opportunities to drive Customer Success by engaging with technical decision makers to show Microsofts security value proposition and value from Microsoft technology. Accelerate resolution of customer blockers by guiding the team to address issues blocking go-live and leading technical conversations with customers while following Microsoft best practices and policies. People Leadership
Model our culture and values by leading the team through change and helping them understand the business model and role changes. Coach the team on driving customer outcomes and continuous learning. Support skills and capability development, ensuring the right mix of talents to achieve business goals. Technical Leadership
Foster a self-learning mindset and align individual and team skilling with customer success goals. Accelerate customer outcomes by engaging with relevant communities, contributing to IP, and sharing learnings to accelerate transformation. Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 6+ years of experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, IT consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture and/or consulting OR equivalent experience. Experience mapping customer needs to technical solutions. Technical understanding of the security industry and competitive solutions. Certification in one or more of the following technologies: Microsoft Azure technologies, or AI certifications. Additional or Preferred Qualifications
Bachelors Degree in relevant fields with 8+ years of experience, or Masters Degree with 6+ years, in cloud/infrastructure technologies, IT consulting/support, architecture, or equivalent experience. 4+ years in a customer-facing role and 4+ years leading technical projects, teams, or functions. Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google) or security. 3+ years people management experience (e.g., managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, or technical architect managers). Experience in Data Science, AI/ML and related technologies such as Data Center migrations, Azure Landing Zones, Cloud Networking. 2+ years experience driving change management or technical adoption. Demonstrated technical leadership and coaching experience. Security and Other Requirements
Active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance required. Must meet Microsoft, customer and government security screening requirements. Clearance verification may be required prior to offer of employment. Microsoft Cloud Background Check required upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Citizenship verification is required due to legal restrictions for certain government work. Compensation
The typical base pay range for this role is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. A different range may apply by location (San Francisco Bay Area and NYC metro). Details and benefits information available here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay Microsoft will accept applications until November 10, 2025. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, learn more about requesting accommodations. #J-18808-Ljbffr