Jobs at Microsoft

Key responsibilities include:
Understand customers' overall applications portfolio, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions (Microsoft and 3rd party solutions) using PaaS, DevOps & Advanced Application coding

• Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap. Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies (e.g. Windows and Linux IaaS, Security, Networking, etc.), and Application Development and DevOps technologies (e.g. App Service, containers, serverless, cloud native, etc.) as appropriate
• Ensure all solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment
• Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Be the Voice of the Customer; Share insights and best practices, and connect with Engineering teams to remove key blockers
• Assess the Customers' knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners
• Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform
• Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community
• Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners and external communities
• Professional Experience -5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications required

TechnicalSubject matter expertise in one or more of the following:

• Relationship Building. Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives in large or highly strategic accounts. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects. required
• Problem Solving. Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies required
• Collaboration and Communication. Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects. Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management, Database administrators and Data Scientist) required
• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management required
• Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments (including migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud) required
• Deep domain expertise of cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS, SAP, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, containers and Infra as a code technologies) required
• Cloud application development solutions (e.g. PaaS, Serverless, API Management);
• Container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry);
• Continuous integration technologies (e.g. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure for DevOps, Chef, Puppet);
• Web application server technologies, cloud application design, software architecture and practices; (design/development/deployment, Agile, SCRUM, ALM)
• one or more of the following programming languages: C++, C#, Java, Node.js, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, Pig/Hive
• Experience using integrated development environments (e.g. Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, XCode, WebSphere) targeting Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, public clouds (i.e. Azure, AWS) required
• Experience with scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry etc.), API management, microservice frameworks etc.
• Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure DevOps, GitHub). preferred
• Competitive Landscape. Knowledge of cloud development platforms preferred
• Partners. Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs preferred

Qualifications

• 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.

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Supplier/Partner Management team within the GCPM organization is responsible for efficiently and effectively managing our Services supplier/partner ecosystem to enable our services delivery and sales groups to deliver the outcomes our customers expect and allow Microsoft Services to achieve its financial and customer satisfaction goals. In alignment with the services domain and area leadership, this team plays a crucial role in ensuring the right partner companies are onboarded, stay compliant and meet our financial and execution excellence expectations. In addition, the Supplier/Partner Management team does large deal negotiations to achieve the best value for our customers and stakeholders.

Supplier/Partner Management Lead Is Responsible For

• Cultivating and Deepening relationships with Microsoft Services subcontracting suppliers/partners
• Partnering closely with Domain Time Zone Leaders, Services Practice Leaders, Domain Delivery Teams, and Partner Sales Leads to develop a robust supplier ecosystem for the subsidiary he/she is managing
• Reviewing and approving new partner onboarding requests.
• Responsible for driving both short term and complex/long term supplier/partner management strategies that include trading off hiring vs. subcontracting vs. outsourcing for the Domains and driving key programs to accelerate and enhance resourcing outcomes for the business and our employees
• Driving periodic governance meetings with strategic suppliers to share feedback from business groups and key stakeholders on performance and new opportunities.
• Managing escalations effectively and taking issues to closure proactively and providing feedback both to Suppliers and Microsoft Services internal teams.
• Driving innovative and impactful improvements in the overall Services Supplier Management processes for better engagement with our key stakeholders
• Anticipating the needs of the Domains/Areas and proactively meeting and exceeding their expectations, recognizing the issues from the field and steer stakeholders to the right resolution/process.
• Excels in communicating appropriately to key stakeholders on Policy updates, sharing specific insights that help create impact on an ongoing basis
• Ensuring completeness and accuracy of Master Contracts, Amendments and Supplier Agreements while working with appropriate supplier contacts, Procurement and Legal teams.
• Identifying and creating savings opportunities for Domains/Areas, tenaciously pursuing positive outcomes, using effective negotiation approaches to drive hard savings.
• Exchanging information and best practices with other world-wide areas and business teams on issues such as local business trends, on-going projects, and concerns
   

Qualifications

Ideal candidates should have 10+ years of Supplier Management / Procurement / Finance / Delivery and Operations experience and should be self-motivated, confident in working with Senior Leaders and comfortable working in a matrix organization. Candidate needs to be able to achieve results through influence across multiple organizations.

• Bachelor’s in business management, information technology, or related field, and/or equivalent experience
• Proven stakeholder management skills, especially in a matrix organization
• A strong business aptitude coupled with an affinity or appreciation for technology and the advancement of technology in thriving organizations
• Ability to effectively prioritize and coordinate multiple work streams of activities
• Knowledge and understanding of the financial and operational functions of a delivery organization (i.e., budget, time keeping, optimizing cost, escalation processes, invoicing, capacity management)
• Experience evaluating work breakdown structures, cost estimations and resource loading
• Ability to develop strong, productive relationships with colleagues and management to meet targeted objectives
• An analytical mindset with the ability to define metrics, reports, interpret results, and make recommendations on appropriate courses of action
• Excellent communication, collaboration, organizational, time management, presentation, and writing skills
• Proactive, self-motivated, and team-oriented with strong capabilities to lead and thrive in start-up type organizations