Cloud Solution Architect

• *Responsibilities**: We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Security Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to drive customer transformation in our Security Solutions. • *Understanding Customer/Technical Environment** - Gathers customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs) and leverages these insights and existing plans to map solutions with customer business outcomes. Learns to adapt business models, plans, and solutions to insights. - Acts as the voice of the customer (VOC) by driving awareness of existing feedback, gaps, blockers, insights, resources, etc. across communities to track, add, and prioritize, using established channels (e.g., UAT/TFT). • *Architecture Design and Deployment** - Leverages an existing architecture approach or reference architecture to propose a solution or achieve Microsoft's agreed commitments to the customer. Assesses customer needs and gathers information that helps others to identify growth opportunities. - Proposes viable solutions based on specific technical products. demonstrates complex concepts, and proves the capability of those solutions through design collaboration sessions with the customer. - Applies technical knowledge of architecture solutions to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified technical constraints. shaping and enhancing customers' requirements. - Identifies technical blockers (e.g., changing configurations, sample coding) for selected products to accelerate architecture implementations and routes non-technical issues for removal by the appropriate party. - Applies methodology and governance, as directed, to minimize business and technical risks and adhere to quality assurance while contributing to design and/or delivery of solutions (e.g. Well-Architected Framework, Enterprise Scale Landing Zone, Cloud Adoption Framework). Demonstrates an understanding of customer/partner conditions of success. • *Trusted Advisor** - Identifies and begins developing impactful relationships with internal teams and customer's technical specialists during initial preparation and ramp-up stages. - Respectfully challenges customers when going in the wrong direction and escalates appropriately. - Understands the competitor's architecture solutions and identifies Microsoft's strengths over competitive solutions to demonstrate Microsoft's value to customers. • *Thought Leadership**