Cloud Solution Architect - Data Security

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Security, data protection, and privacy are vital pillars in our mission. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission. 

Microsoft aspires to help our customers achieve their secure digital transformation, leveraging the power of Microsoft Cloud security solutions and support offerings. Azure is the most comprehensive, innovative, flexible, and Secure cloud platform today. Microsoft is hiring security professionals to drive customer cloud security adoption for customers around the world. 

Microsoft continues to invest by quadrupling its cybersecurity investment to $20 billion over the next five years to provide its customers with solutions that integrate across the ecosystem by connecting all of your identities, endpoints, apps, emails, docs and clouds to help you close critical gaps in coverage, reduce risk, and save costs with a streamlined security portfolio.

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.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Significant technical experience in data security and understanding of Microsoft Purview architectures and their implementations at enterprise-scale  
• Good understanding of the overall data security market and the competitive landscape Understanding of the current regulations and certifications (e.g. ISO27001, NIS-2) and current developments in the data security area 
• In-depth knowledge/ Subject Matter Expertise in one or more of the following solutions or competitive products: 
• Microsoft Purview Information Protection  
• Microsoft Purview eDiscovery 
• Microsoft Purview Data Loss prevention 
• Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management 
• Customer focused mindset enjoying the work with customers as a trusted technical advisor aiming for realizing the value for the customer. 
• English skills required, German skills are a plus. 

Further Key Skills:

• Relationship Building. Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with decision makers. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on data security solutions/projects. 
• Problem Solving. Ability to solve customer data security problems through cloud technologies 
• Collaboration and Communication. Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences. 
• Customer Focus. Customer obsessed leader with an “if I don’t know how to get it done, I’ll find someone who does” approach to solving customer challenges 
• Value Realization. Ability to understand customer business objectives and outcomes and ability to quickly leverage tech solutions to accomplish those outcomes 
• Trusted Technical Advisor. Ability to build strong relationships with security decision makers and build credibility and be viewed as a trusted advisor 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Security Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to drive customer transformation on the Azure and Microsoft 365 Platform. This is a customer-facing role, owning the overall technical relationship and strategy between the customer and Microsoft. 

You will own data security customer engagements, including architecture, technical readiness, implementation, and optimization in production based on the products of Microsoft Purview. Therefore, you will deliver pro-active support delivery services through the customer’s unified contract. 

The ideal candidate will have experience in customer-facing roles driving data security initiatives and leading in-depth technical security discussions. The ideal candidate will be comfortable having data security discussions with customer decision makers such as CISOs, Enterprise Security Architects, Enterprise Architects, IT and Security Management, Data security and compliance officers to drive data security as an enabler for cloud workloads in Azure and Microsoft 365. 

Key Responsibilities:

Tech Enthusiast. Demonstrate the end-to-end value of Microsoft’s Data Security offerings including architectural discussions and framework such as Zero Trust. Ensure that the solution exhibits “Secure by Design” or “Well-Architected” framework, such as high-performance levels, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment. 

Customer Obsessed. Empower customers to be successful in their Microsoft Data Security adoption journey in complex environments by helping to define a data protection strategy, Architecture, and implementation of necessary controls aligned with Microsoft Data Security Services including Information Protection, eDiscovery, Data Loss Prevention and Insider Risk Management. Thereby, understand challenges, trouble shoot technical issues and be a voice of the customer to share insights and best practices with Global Data Security teams at Microsoft to remove blockers and influence the roadmap.  

Team Player. Collaborate and contribute to the Cloud Solution Architect Community in Germany and worldwide to learn, get help and share knowledge. Take over technical leadership and orchestrate technical experts and resources that may be required to deliver outcomes. 

Lifelong learner. Growth mindset is one of the key principles at Microsoft. Own your readiness path and build a plan and routines to continuously learn new Microsoft security and data security technologies and grow. Act as a mentor to enable others to learn from you and facilitate virtual team learning opportunities.