3 days ago
Remote, India or Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Gather customer and partner insights and map architecture and digital transformation solutions to business outcomes.
- Act as the voice of customers and partners by tracking and prioritizing feedback, gaps, blockers, and resource needs.
- Synthesize business and technical requirements into architecture proposals and demonstrate solution capability and value.
- Apply broad architecture knowledge to address requirements, constraints, and application development needs.
- Lead customer and partner projects implementing technical architecture, including design collaboration and deployment activities.
- Identify, escalate, and resolve technical blockers through configuration changes, sample coding, and other technical interventions.
- Lead architecture design, resiliency reviews, technical optimization, and efforts that improve application production deployment and customer usage.
- Advise customers and partners on architecture direction, competitor differentiation, governance, risk reduction, and well-architected environments.
- Develop stakeholder relationships, deliver technical presentations, participate in architect communities, and share insights internally.
- Drive delivery execution, customer satisfaction, and Customer Success Plan outcomes while supporting internal service opportunities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, business, or a related field and 10+ years of technical leadership experience in a relevant business area, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of object-oriented programming, cloud application architecture, and microservices development for public clouds.
- 5+ years of experience capturing application requirements, conducting design reviews, developing and deploying software through automated processes, and troubleshooting software defects in pure-cloud or hybrid environments.
- 5+ years working with Agile/Scrum, CI/CD, or DevOps models across coding, testing, and deployment disciplines.
- Experience with the GitHub ecosystem, solution architecture such as SOA and enterprise architecture, and modern .NET technologies including .NET, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and Dapr.
- Experience with Azure cloud-native application services, containers, orchestration, application security, APIs, databases, messaging, monitoring, and platform services.
- Knowledge of Azure AI and related technologies such as Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI, MLOps, Semantic Kernel, LangChain, GraphRAG, RAG, CLU, custom speech services, MCP, A2A, copilots, agentic applications, AutoGen, SQLRAG, Fabric, data modeling, and machine learning is advantageous.
- Face-to-face customer engagement, technical delivery, customer-facing presentation, analytical problem-solving, customer and partner relationship building, and leadership skills.
- Ability to travel to customer sites, manage multiple shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment, troubleshoot technical issues, and take on internal initiatives.
- Microsoft certifications are desirable.
Benefits
- The role is customer-facing and may require travel to customer sites as needed by the business.
- The position is open for a minimum of five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
- Microsoft states that it is an equal opportunity employer and provides accommodation support during the application process.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.