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Partner Technical Architect - Power Platform

Microsoft
Cairo, Egypt
Posted 4 years ago
1 open position
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The Impact You’ll Be Making…

The Partner Technical Architect (PTA) Power Platform within One Commercial Partner Organization will drive practice-based partner technical capabilities in collaboration with the Partner Development Managers (PDMs) and Partner Technology Strategist (PTS). This is a partner facing role that is accountable for developing and supporting Microsoft Power Platform practices with global services, regional services and ISV partners.

Key responsibilities include:

  • 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. Build strong relationships with partner technical and development resources to design and architect new Power Platform solutions
  • 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. Collaborate with engineering on building partner-led IP for vertical industries and regional localization solutions.
  • Partner Skilling and Sharing Best Practices: Network and collaborate with Microsoft’s Engineering, Global Black Belt and Sales and Marketing 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. Develops a multi-cloud technology adoption roadmap and advices partners on its execution according to business priorities
  • 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, Sales, Marketing 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 certified architects in the partner’s organization.
  • Pre-Sales: Enable the partner on key strategic partner’s opportunities through: Technical Architectural Review, Architectural Design Sessions (ADS), Proof of Concepts, Advanced Workshops, Hackathons, Deployment and Consumption Review.

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications:

  • Senior developer with hands-on experience on developing business applications.
  • Understanding of Data Models in the Cloud and Advanced Analytics Scenarios
  • 5+ years of experience with the architecture of Line of Business Applications in the Cloud
  • Experience with the Power Platform technologies and ecosystem strongly preferred.
  • 5+ years of experience with cloud computing – especially SaaS architectures in Azure and competing platforms

Additional Qualifications:

  • Experience with Rapid Application Development Frameworks.
  • Fluent knowledge of and experience with Microsoft cloud services and technical expertise of the Microsoft platform.
  • Proven working experience on technical sales and technical account management. Project management skills.
  • Experience on software development and extending solutions in the cloud.
  • Preference for candidates with experience with C#, JavaScript, JSON, X++.
  • Knowledge of competing platforms and solutions.

Recommended domain knowledge areas

  • Deep technical skill on business application platform, technical components of the Dynamics 365 platform, and significant experience in the relevant practice area and technology focus.
  • Orchestration of application development lifecycle.
  • Experience in vertical industries, proven by projects/solutions implemented with substantial business processes covering Financial and Insurance, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Healthcare/Life Sciences, Retail, or other business to consumer industry scenarios.
  • Demonstrable architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of complex application architectures.

Extensive experience of collaborating with virtual teams across functions and geographies:

  • Inclusive and collaborative – driving teamwork and cross-team alignment.
  • Strong partner relationship management and solution development skills.
  • Proven track record of building deep sales relationships with CXOs and practice building executives in ISV, MSP, CD and SIs.
  • Problem solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, conflict resolution, and follow through with partners.

Education

  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field experience required, Masters Degree strongly preferred
  • Certifications in domain-specific technologies required.
  • Be a Microsoft Dynamics 365 certified (for example, Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Supply Chain Management Functional), or have an industry equivalent certification.

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