Cloud Solution Architecture Manager

The Canadian Microsoft Cloud Solution Architects (CSAs) are the backbone of the customer journey.  Enabling our customers to realize their full potential through accelerated adoption and optimized use of the Microsoft Cloud.

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.

The Cloud Solution Architect Manager is a pivotal role in this endeavor, managing the best and brightest capabilities within our team of CSAs.  The leader provides technical, strategy and business context coaching to a team of Cloud Solution Architects.  Who’s focus is on delivering customer satisfaction and cloud consumption in alignment to a customer’s overall priorities and objectives.  Inspirational leadership, business acumen, people development and operational excellence are keys to success in the CSA Manager role. 

In the Customer Success team, we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Cloud Solution Architect Manager, you will run a team of 10-12 CSA’s who enable customers to achieve their outcomes, based on their investments in Microsoft technology. Leveraging your leading technical team’s expertise, you will drive the team to ensure customers get value from their MS investments. Microsoft aspires to help our customers architect and deploy first class cloud infrastructure solutions in Azure to be AI Ready by applying scalable best practices in the cloud with Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework (WAF).   Azure is the most comprehensive, innovative, and flexible cloud platform today and Microsoft is hiring professionals that will drive customer cloud adoption for AI Innovation within the most important companies in the market.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Minimum Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ 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
• 3+ years people management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, and/or technical architect managers

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 12+ 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
  • OR equivalent experience
• 6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external)
• 6+ years experience leading technical projects, teams, or functions
  • Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
• 5+ years people management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, and/or technical architect managers

Cloud Solution Architecture M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $121,800 - CAD $219,100 per year.

Find additional pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 2, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, colour, 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.

• You will build and grow teams through talent management, diversity and inclusion, coaching, and career development. Inspire and foster a culture of customer-centricity and consumption, adoption and through collaboration with peers and extended teams and develop a team that incorporates a mix of expertise across key workloads and lead them through changes using the Demonstrated Capability Framework
• You will lead your team to deliver positive Customer Satisfaction, and coach them to become trusted advisors to customers and partners, by leveraging Azure Infrastructure services to operate AI solutions at scale and enable defined Customer Success Plan outcomes. Coach the team to provide feedback & insights from customers/partners back to the relevant MS teams including Product Groups, to enable continuous improvement and AI Innovation.
• As the cloud-consumption leader, owning the business and results you will be the vocal leader and customer champion with both local and corporate leadership to elevate cloud adoption issues and accelerate resolution.
• You will empower your team to win and accelerate application and AI innovation projects to production, including guidance on architectural design, required services to operate AI solutions at scale, including Infrastructure, Data, Networking, Security, and Management, technical recommendations, blocker escalations and technical resource orchestration.
• You will engage with the area’s most strategic customers as executive sponsor to accelerate digital and AI transformation and help customers build microservices architectures with scalable databases to capture innovation. Accountability to ensure revenue and business metric are achieved.
• You will lead your team to utilize “Well-Architected” framework, such as high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability with an emphasis on Networking, Zonal/multi-region, and Security and partner with all required Microsoft stakeholders in the subsidiary to land and drive CSA role clarity, account coverage, project assignment and effective cross-team collaboration.
• You will foster a continuous self-learning culture and drive technical intensity, to enable customers to realize desired business outcomes, including innovation. Model impactful community engagement, sharing learnings and best practices, and coach inclusivity.