Solution Architect
- Azure Apps

Responsibilities

You will gather customer/partner insights from a broad range of
stakeholders as well as the main business sponsor to shape and form
both the definition and ongoing execution of projects and work with
customer/partner stakeholders and business sponsor to socialize both
the business solution and the project approach to determine if
changes are needed to the business solution.

• You will use evidence-based approach to represent the customer/
  partner as a customer advocate and share insights with Product
  Engineering teams and the business with a view to improving
  Microsoft technologies, products, services and offerings such that
  they can better meet customer/partner needs across a territory.

• You will define and document the Architecture through an
  architecture description document, an architecture decisions log, and
  a requirements/constraints traceability matrix to communicate the
  value proposition of the business solution along with the project
  approach.

• You will work with customers to understand and demonstrate
  business value (e.g., release of revenue, cost savings) that the
  business solution realizes and manage and resolve ambiguity in the
  requirements and constraints and documents assumptions and
  implications where it cannot be resolved.

• You will generate new and/or improvements to existing intellectual
  property. Connects gaps and patterns across business and
  technology areas to drive changes.

• You will identify which ideas should be culled, with consideration for
  scale across customers and drive the re-use of intellectual property
  and recommends practices in both pre-sales and delivery as well as
  participate and contribute to internal/external communities.

• You will lead virtual teams around technologies and customer/
  partner challenges by sharing ideas, insight, and strategic, technical 
  input with technical teams, internal communities across the field and
  the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft
  architectures and their context in the competitive landscape.

Technology Areas:

• Strong understanding of complex business problems to ensure 

  projects are leveraging the appropriate technology and the technical
  design. 

• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid
  infrastructures, architecture designs, database migrations, and
  technology management.

•Experience in moving data from on-premises data platforms to cloud
  a nd designing cloud native data warehouse platform.

• Experience working with transactional, temporal, time series, and
  structured and unstructured data. 

• Big Data and Data Warehouses including Azure Synapse Analytics
  (formerly Azure SQL DW), Snowflake, GCP’s Big Query, AWS Redshift, 

  Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Explorer

• Advanced Analytics including Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data
  Bricks, data visualization tools (i.e. PowerBI, Tableau)

• Data Science and Machine Learning (i.e. Azure ML, ML Server,
  TensorFlow, or other similar frameworks) 

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, storage optimization and query
  optimizations.

• Experience in delivering/managing lifecycle of software/services
  using DevOps/MLOps.

• Proficiency in data modeling and design, including SQL development
  and database administration.

• Experience with cloud platforms, such as Azure, to manage and
   integrate data systems.

• Knowledge of big data developments and technology architectures.

• Familiarity with data security measures and compliance regulations.

• Ability to design and model database, data warehouse, and data flow 

  infrastructures.

• Understanding of data integration and the tools to manage data flow.