Ready to shift your primary focus from being the expert with a single product, technology, or solution space to growing broad integration skills across multiple technologies in extremely complex environments? Want to connect the solutions you envision to the business and measure impact to the bottom line of the company?<\/p>\n
Job Category:\u00a0Services & Consulting
\nLocation:\u00a0South Africa, Johannesburg
\nJob ID:\u00a0750401
\nProduct:\u00a0(Not Product Specific)
\nDivision:\u00a0Services & Support<\/p>\n
Interested in leveraging your abstract thinking skills and employing strong architectural process skills to create innovative solutions for the largest organizations in the world? Want to advice the local practice on the lighthouse projects they should be involved in? Are you interested in having first-hand knowledge of the roadmaps for the broadest and most innovative technology stack available in today and tomorrow\u2019s marketplace?<\/p>\n
Microsoft Services help customers realize their full potential through accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies. We are a global team of exceptional people who deliver world class services with partners, earning customer confidence, trust, and loyalty by Improving the overall Customer and Partner Experience, Serving as the customer advocates within Microsoft and Driving customer-centric product improvement.<\/p>\n
The Associate Architect in Enterprise Services is involved in risk management for the practice as well as the entire IT lifecycle but is most critical during pre-sales, discovery and design phases, with broad focus around enterprise, industry, platform and solutions. Duties include:
\nProviding customer guidance during product and services sales cycle
\nPlaying a vital part in business strategy by providing internal practice management risk assessment
\nDriving successful solution deployments by ensuring proper business value and customer\/partner satisfaction
\nGrowing the business through mentoring, talent pipeline development, and community evangelism
\nDriving operational excellence and innovation<\/p>\n
Job Qualifications:<\/strong>
\n\u00a7 Must have a degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
\n\u00a7 At least 5 – 8 years related IT experience.
\nFull working knowledge of the MS stack
\n\u00a7 Work experience should involve technical consulting, solution design, project envisioning, planning, development, deployment, and management in a MS environment
\n\u00a7 Must have a proven record of delivering business value.
\n\u00a7 Some business process and people management skills or related experience required.
\nRole Specific Characteristics May Include
\n\u00a7 Candidates must have a deep understanding of markets, customers, and technology; have the background to provide leadership in the practice and a demonstrated effectiveness in consulting and client management.
\n\u00a7 Candidates must have deep understanding of customer and partner business and IT environment, and have demonstrated skills creating architecture and deploying technology to solve business problems.
\nCandidates must have industry leading depth knowledge of subject area, and have demonstrated analysis and communication skills connecting technology and business problems<\/p>\n