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Cloud Solution Architect

Microsoft
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Posted 5 years ago
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  • Technical Enablement: Jointly develop technical enablement plan for partners
  • Enablement Execution: Lead and or contribute to the delivery of workshops, Bootcamps, trainings necessary to build the technical skills and expertise of partners
  • Technical Engagement: Lead the execution of deep technical engagements including; Technical Briefings, Proof of Concepts, Architectural Design Sessions, Hackathons to define and bring new solutions to market
  • Partner Skilling and Sharing Best Practices: Network and collaborate with Microsoft’s Engineering and Global Black Belt teams on specific skill requirements for partners and the sharing of best practices
  • Technical Acumen: Understands technology trends and opportunities, compliance/risk issues by reading, attending webinars, conferences delivered by Industry thought leaders such as Gartner, Forrester, IDC, ISG/Saugatuck
  • The Participation Economy: Joins the Participation economy attending Digital Transformation/Technology conferences like Build. Participates on technical panels and user groups and contributes with insights and work that is shared in communities such as MSDN and Channel9
  • Technical Network: Invests in own LinkedIn Profile to promote value, experiences and expertise. Responsible for building an expansive Network of partner technical contacts and internal contacts including Engineering, Global Black belts, M&O and peer Architects
  • Evangelist: Evangelizes the partners practice and solutions in customer’s implementations via Technical briefings, Architecture Review Sessions
  • Implementation Success: Improves partner’s implementation success by increasing the number of FastTrack endorsed architects in the partner’s organization.
  • Pre-Sales: Enable the partner on technical pre-sales skills while supporting initial partner’s wins.

Job Requirements

  • Deep understanding of digital transformation business drivers, cloud platforms, emerging computing trends and their impact on partner practice building opportunities.
  • 10+ years of related experience in technology solutions/practice development, Cloud / Infrastructure technologies. Knowledge of MS platform preferable, project management, technical Sales and technical account management.
  • 5+ years experience in one of the 3 deep specializations below:
  • Data Platfrom: RDBMS: A-SQL, SQL MI, RDBMS OSS: mySQL, Postgres, noSQL: CDB, Mongo, Cassandra: additionally good experience required (2+ years) in SQL DW, AS, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, Security.
  • Analytics: SQL DW, AS, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Additionally, good experience required (2+ years) in RDBMS: A-SQL, SQL MI, RDBMS OSS: mySQL, Postgres & noSQL: CDB, Mongo, Cassandra
  • Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning - Azure Databricks / Spark, Azure ML, Azure Search and Knowledge Mining, Azure Cognitive Services and Bots. Additionally, good experience required (2+ years) in RDBMS: A-SQL, SQL MI, RDBMS OSS: mySQL, Postgres, noSQL: CDB,Mongo, Cassandra and Security.
  • Proven track record of building deep sales relationships with CXOs and practice building executives in ISV, MSP, CD and SIs
  • Inclusive and collaborative – driving teamwork and cross-team alignment
  • Strong partner relationship management skills
  • Strong executive presence including communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort to large and small technical audiences.
  • Problem solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, conflict resolution, and follow through with partners.
  • Technical BS degree or Equivilient work experience

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