Tomoh Program: Cloud Solution Architecture: Internship Opportunities (UAE Nationals)

About: Tomoh Program is Microsoft's program for Emiritization, aiming to accelerate Emiratis employability and create market impact through early in career recruitment, and skilling programs.
 

Program overview:  Microsoft Tomoh Internship is a paid nine-month training program that offers globally recognized technical and professional certifications & skills, and on-the-job training to include mentoring, coaching, job shadowing and real-life scenario assignments.
 

Program Details: The 9 months program is divided into two key phases (Phase 1 - Onboarding & Skilling, Phase 2 - On The Job Training)
Phase one: Onboarding & Skilling Bootcamp (1 month)
Onboarding and introduction to Microsoft’s mission, culture, strategy & structure.
Technical skilling to obtain globally recognized Microsoft technical certifications.
Professional and soft skilling courses including project management, change management, effective interpersonal skills, creativity and innovation, and time management.
 

Phase two: On-the-job training (8 months)
Joining as an Cloud Solution Architect for on-the-job shadowing and training.
Mentorship and coaching sessions.
Supporting Microsoft teams in digital transformation projects.
Advanced technology trainings including AI, Machine Learning & Cloud Computing.

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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Emirati National holding UAE Family Book.
• Fluency in English. 
• You must be legally authorised to work in UAE to be eligible for this role. (Legally authorised = has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit) for your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's/ Master's Degree in Information Technology (IT), Computer Science, Business Administration/Management,Engineering, or related field before the start date (OR must be recent graduates or recently graduated).

Preferred Qualifications

• Passion for technology and customer obsessed
• Displays strong stakeholder and relationship management across senior leaders, partners, and customers
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentationskills
• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g. Azure)
• Change Management Certification (e.g. Prosci).

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.

• Applies foundational technical knowledge of an architecture solution to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified technical constraints.
• Acts as the voice of the customer (VOC)/partner by learning to identify and share feedback around technical capabilities, gaps, blockers, and insights that relate to the customer/partner with internal teams, using established channels.
• Solicits input from others to contribute to proposals for viable solutions based on specific technical products. demonstrates basic technical concepts and proves those design solutions capability through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner.
• Supports research projects and contributes to scoping surveys for customers/partners to assess potential intellectual property (IP) needs or process changes.
• Participates in external architect community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and shares learnings with the internal team.
• Participates in discussions around architecture design, resiliency reviews, and technical optimization that result in production deployment application and increase customer business value. Ensures that the customer's environment and applications are well-architected.