Principal Cloud Solution Architect, Dev Squad

Overview

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

The Principal Cloud Solution Architect is part of the Dev Squad organization working with Latin America Area HQ team of software engineers that jointly develops strategic projects with customers in the region. The co-development happens in the customer environment and targets a business problem prioritized with LATAM country leaders and customer executives. It aims to materialize innovative scenarios for the customers and contribute to their digital transformation. The team leverages Microsoft Cloud platform and works with patterns such as Cloud Native, microservices applications, data pipelines, Open AI integration and related workloads for Frontier solutions.

The LATAM Dev Squad Organization is distributed across all the continent, its diverse with multicultural experienced professionals, and you will be working with teammates in the USA and LATAM. The position is fully remote as you will be working with customers across multiple countries in Mexico, Caribbean, Central America and South America. We are looking at both seasonal engineering roles or customer-facing roles in consulting with proven experience and active technical, design and coding experience.

Responsibilities

Scale Customer Engagements

• Engages with and reaches out to customers proactively and independently.
• Uses knowledge of customer context, solution or portfolio expertise, and technical and industry knowledge to build credibility with customers.
• Actively code in C#, Java, Golang or any other language stack that might be necessary in the project
• Leads and ensures technical wins for core and adjacent technologies by leading technical discussions with customers and establishing rules of engagement (e.g., role boundaries, handoff strategies) for extended teams, leveraging knowledge of processes (e.g., Managed Service Provider [MSP], Managed Certified Professional [MCP]), tools, and programs (e.g., Cloud Accelerate Factory, End Customer Investment Funds [ECIFs]). Searches for customer references to use in engagements.
• Leverages foundational knowledge of resources (e.g., roles, Microsoft Technology Center [MTC], demo sites, virtual sites, Value Based Delivery [VBD], Customer Success Unit [CSU]) and proactively engages product teams (e.g., engineering) to remediate blockers by conveying impact.
• Participate on a team of software engineers as an architect and active developer working with customers and partners to create solutions to solve critical customers needs
• Work under Agile/SCRUM and Dev Ops best practices as part of a development team.
• Actively up-skill during the project time-frame and between projects in specific moments for study and training
• Tech Lead projects as a SCRUM lead and main architect, working with your peers in a development team

Build Strategy

• Captures core competitive knowledge and delivers back to product and engineering teams to enhance team capabilities and develop compete strategies for assigned customers.
• Provides strategic, technical, and partner input based on Microsoft capability at the account level to contribute to strategy development, leveraging partner, competitor, or open-source knowledge.

Solution Design and Delivery

• Demonstrates and oversees demonstrations (e.g., architectural design sessions, and proof of concept [POC] sessions) of products, services, and integration through initial engagements. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove capabilities and integration into customer environment.
• Work with customers and other team members in co-designing and delivering MVP projects that will eventually land in production environments.
• Presents and applies architecture patterns to partners or customers and drives cross-workload support for Microsoft Solutions and industry leading services, frameworks and open-source projects as required.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 7+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

This position is not eligible for have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, technology delivery, or related experience
  • Or Engineering experience designing, coding, shipping technology solutions build at cloud providers, or development or Frameworks, programming languages or enterprise software.
• 4+ years' experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• 6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
• 4+ years of experience working as a hands-on developer, coding with enterprise customers in recent years.
  • Or Engineering experience designing solutions at a global cloud hyperscaler that provide those technical capabilities.
• Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Azure Foundry, Information Security, Architecture).

Cloud Solution Architecture IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $251,900 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $165,600 - $272,300 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.