Manager, Cloud Solution Architecture - App and Innovation

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Microsoft’s 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.

The mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.

In the Customer Success (CSU) Netherlands team, we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Manager, Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) team, you will run a team of 10-15 experienced CSAs who enable customers to achieve their outcomes, based on their investments in Microsoft App Innovation and AI technologies. Leveraging your leading technical team’s expertise, you will drive the team to ensure customers get value from their MS investments. Microsoft aspires to help our customers architect and deploy first class cloud solutions in Azure by applying scalable best practices in the cloud such as leveraging platform engineering practices, common app & AI design patterns, Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework (WAF). Azure is the most comprehensive, innovative, and flexible cloud platform today and Microsoft is hiring professionals that will drive customer cloud adoption within the most important companies in the market.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND Substantial 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.
• Proven people management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, and/or technical architect managers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
• Experience leading technical projects, teams, or functions
• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications) or breadth of technical experience and knowledge in foundational application development and tooling, foundational AI, architecture design, with strong technical understanding of cloud deployment scenarios and workloads and proven ability to map the customer’s needs to technical solutions

• You will deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring as well as build and grow healthy teams that incorporates a mix of expertise across key workloads through talent management, diversity and inclusion and career development while inspiring and fostering a culture of customer-centricity and consumption, adoption and use through collaboration with peers and extended teams using the Demonstrated Capability Framework
• You will coach team to represent the customer/partner to internal teams (e.g., Engineering) to shape products and services, and supports the team in providing insights across the territory and drive the team to leverage feedback to develop strategic and actionable insights and influence product roadmaps by presenting business cases to program managers.
• You will drive adherence to Microsoft standards and recommended practices by setting expectations for the team around methodology and governance and lead your team to utilize “Well-Architected” framework, for consistent delivery of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and reliability.
• You will support the team on removal of blockers and proactively identify and propose resolutions through regular technical reviews to accelerate solution implementations. Identifies patterns in blockers across business areas or territory.
• You will manage the business (e.g., scorecards, forecasting) by delivering against team targets, achieving business metrics, and ensuring the team delivers on Microsoft's Customer Commitments. Leverage Microsoft and industry insights to position engagement offerings and to fuel new cloud growth with top customers and industry opportunities.
• You will foster a continuous technical self-learning culture and community sharing of stories by encouraging and empowering the team to share learnings. Leverage market and engagement insights to assist leadership in defining area vision, prioritizing teams' skilling and engagements.
• You will model how to engage constructively and transparently with the technical and/or business community locally and globally as you participate in management communities and foster a culture of fast and effective learning at all levels and accelerate innovation by coaching teams on delivering best practices IP and providing feedback or modifying intellectual properties (IPs) rooted in domain expertise and/or industry acumen.