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We are a team of Partner Cloud Solution Architects, dedicated to empowering our partners and joint customers to achieve more with Azure. Our goal is to enable our partners to build and deliver Azure-based solutions to customers in a repeatable manner in order to drive sustainable growth for them and Microsoft with high impact customer projects and solutions.

In this role in our group, you will have the opportunity to work with top partners in the German market, utilize cutting-edge cloud technologies, and learn something new every day. You are part of an organization that realizes hypergrowth for Azure - the world's supercomputer.

Does this sound appealing to you? If so, we invite you to join our team in the Global Partner Solutions division at Microsoft Germany.

Responsibilities

As a Partner Cloud Solution Architect (PSA) for Azure Infrastructure, you will proactively engage with the technical leadership at Microsoft partners and their customers across Germany. Our partners include global and national system integrators, managed service providers, and ISVs.

Your goal is to ensure repeatable partner success in modern cloud and hybrid infrastructure customer projects and through productization of partner offerings such as Marketplace offerings, IP solutions, and managed services. Your ubergoal is to help partner and customer organizations to transform into fully cloud-driven organizations.

A PSA's reponsibilities include:

• Technical sales for customer success: enabling partners for key deliverables such as solution design, architecture design, proof of concepts, implementation, and operations & governance

• Technical enablement of partner technical and presales teams

• Solution development: guiding partners through the development of repeatable solutions (including architecture and well-architected pricinples such as cost optimization)

• Partner evangelism & transformation: identifying and pursuing structural growth opportunities in partner organizations (inlcuding adoption of new technologies, evolvement of technical roles, and productization of offerings to address skilled labor shortage)

Additionally, you will have the opportunity to speak and present at internal and external conferences, be recognized as a trusted advisor in your domain of expertise, and translate insights and market opportunities into programmatic growth initiatives.

Qualifications

We embrace diversity and value your unique strengths. The following list outlines the qualifications we are looking for:

• Substantial experience in customer-facing consultant and/or architect roles

• Hands-on experience with a hyperscaler cloud platform and modern infrastrcture technologies like kubernetes at enterprise customers and/or ISVs.

• Ability to create and exectue plans for the creation of landing zones consisting of modern cloud infrastructures

• A deep understanding of cloud infrastructure deplyoment, operations and management processes and the associated tools (e.g. Infrastructure as Code)

• Experience with methodologies for creating IT Solution architectures

• Hands-on expertise creating highly robust and scalable cloud deployments meeting reislience and scalabiltiy goals while at the same time being cost efficient and managable

• A combination of deep technical expertise, sales mentality, and business acumen, enabling you to contribute to the success of projects in terms of both technology and business impact for the customer, partner, and Microsoft.

• Ability to structure complex and dynamic projects into actionable chunks and to guide v-teams without formal authority to achieve the desired project goal

• A natural inclination towards intentional collaboration and a passion for empowering others rather than doing everything yourself.

• Effective communication across diverse audiences (technical and non-technical) and hierarchies

• You are a self-learner, eager to embrace new technologies.

• You are fluent in English, understand language of our partners and customers in Germany, and are eligible to work in Germany.

Overall, you share our passion for making a difference.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .