Customer Facing Technology: Cloud Solution Architect Placement

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. We believe we should each find meaning in our work and we ensure employees have the freedom and the reach to help make a difference in the world.

The Role

The Cloud Solution Architect role would be within the Customer Success Unit (CSU) which is responsible for enabling Microsoft's largest Enterprise Customers on their journey to embrace Digital Transformation. The Customer Success Unit is a large organization which works with some of the world's best known brands along with the UK's largest Public Sector organisations. The community is made up of a diverse mix of technical, change management and support delivery skills and experiences. The CSU’s expertise is supporting customers in becoming adopters of Microsoft's cloud technologies.

Customer Success is a rapidly growing organization at Microsoft. The purpose of the Customer Success Unit is to guide our customers to better deploy, adopt, and gain long-term business value from their investment in Microsoft. In turn, their successes will ensure we grow consumption of our latest and greatest Modern Work technologies. Ultimately, when our customers are successful, we are successful.

We are looking for highly motivated and passionate students with a strong technical background to drive high priority customer initiatives on the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform.  In this role you’ll  collaborate with customers and Microsoft colleagues to design solutions and support knowledge sharing to deliver great customer outcomes. This is a customer facing role, supporting the overall technical relationship between the customer and the Microsoft Azure Platform.

The CSU focuses on 4 solution areas;

• Migrating Data to Azure
• Migrating Infrastructure to Azure
• Modernizing traditional apps
• Artificial Intelligence

Key responsibilities

• Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners and external communities
• Be a Voice in the communityto share insights and best practices, connect with colleagues to remove key blockers and provide new perspectives
• Develop your technical skills and knowledge, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights, and share within the technical community
• Learn about customer's overall IT estate, their business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions (Microsoft and 3rd party solutions)
• Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to support the  creation of architectual solutions to meet business and IT needs- these will focus on technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, orchestrating key resources and infusing key data technologies
• Develop relationships with customers , to drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates

Requirements

We are looking for candidates that have the following qualities:

• Team Player: driving digital transformation with our customers is a team sport. We need teammates who can stay focused on our customers' satisfaction while operating in a highly-collaborative and global organization.
• Growth Mindset: your life is truly about learning-it-all. You approach every new piece of information, knowledge, and competency with curiosity. Ultimately, you're open to the ideas of others, where the success of others does not diminish your own.
• Customer Obsessed: you learn about your customers and their businesses with a beginner's mind and then bring solutions that meet their needs.
• Diverse & Inclusive: You don't just value differences, you seek them out and invite them in.

Required Qualifications

• Technical degree: min of Bachelor’s in Computer Science or adjacent fields (e.g. data science, computer engineering, etc.) 
• Examples of technical experience and/or knowledge. Experience could be based in internships or even working on personal projects. Applicant should feel comfortable in one or two of the items from one of the following specialties:

• • App Dev: web app and API development, cloud design patterns, PaaS, server-less, DevOps, Java, .NET
  • Infrastructure: firewalls, encryption, security, virtual networks, virtual machines, containers, PowerShell, Windows Server, Linux, storage
  • Data: database design, SQL and NoSQL, big data, data governance, data science, ETL, data mining, business intelligence, Python, Power BI, SQL Analysis Services

• Ability to build technical relationships, work collaboratively, resolving conflicts and persuading others through strong verbal and written communication skills 
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (both technical and business audiences)
• Passion for technology, both consumer and enterprise 
• Knowledge of Microsoft productivity suite of tools a benefit​ 
• Desire to make a positive impact on the world through technology and business solutions a must
• Must be in their penultimate year of university and eligible for a 12 month internship in the UK starting July 2021
• Must have right to work for the full duration of the internship without need for sponsorship

Benefits 

• Industry leading healthcare
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services