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Cloud Solution Architect Manager The Telco, Media, and Gaming Operating Unit is a newly formed, industry-focused team of sales professionals dedicated to helping customers achieve their strategic goals through Microsoft's solutions. In this role, you'll work alongside top-tier sellers, solution architects, and customer success managers to lead digital transformation efforts and deliver tangible business outcomes. By addressing complex industry challenges with innovative solutions, you'll accelerate deal velocity and play a key role in shaping the future success of our customers. We are looking for a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) Manager, specializing in security, who is passionate about leading a team of architects who drive our customers' security transformation on the Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 Platforms. This is a people management role with accountability for a portfolio of customers and a portion of the Microsoft business results. Work from home flexiblity is permitted for this role. Responsibilities You will lead your team to deliver customer objectives & Microsoft business targets. Lead them through change using the Demonstrated Capabilities framework and deliver positive Customer Satisfaction, and coach them to become trusted advisors to customers and partners, by leveraging Security expertise across M365 and Azure to enable defined Customer Success Plan outcomes. You will coach the team to understand customer objectives and how Unified accelerates value realization and guide team to drive positive Customer Satisfaction & share feedback/insights from customers/partners. You will coach the team to develop opportunities driving Customer Success business results by working with technical decision makers ensuring they understand Microsoft's security value proposition and get value from their investment in Microsoft technology through deep business understanding of security solution plays and customer scenarios. You will coach the team to identify resolutions to issues blocking go-live of customer success projects by leveraging security technical subject matter expertise. Support them to lead technical conversations with customers to drive value from their MS investments, by delivering all work according to MS best practices and policies and using repeatable Intellectual Property (IP) and run your business and develop your team to meet customer needs and Microsoft business targets. Coach team to deliver according to MS best practices & using repeatable Intellectual Property (IP). You will foster a continuous self-learning culture and drive technical intensity, driving team to enable customers to realize desired business outcomes, including innovation. Model impactful community engagement and coach team to contribute to repeatable IP. You will leverage your ability to apply principles, systems, tools, and strategic insights to sustainably improve key performance metrics (KPIs) and drive operational efficiencies and coach the team on situational fluency (Interpersonal Flexibility) by studying your customer, understanding the situation, "reading the room" and reacting accordingly as you coach the teams on how and when to pivot customer/ internal conversations based on what you observe in your environment. You will leverage the breadth of your technical experience and knowledge in foundational security, foundational AI, architecture design, with depth Subject Matter Expertise in security to deliver the end-to-end security story for Microsoft, highlighting the value proposition using your experience in security and expertise around related technologies and concepts such as Zero Trust, threat management, SOC monitoring (SIEM / SOAR), and Extended Detection & Response (XDR) + SIEM, Cloud Security, and Identity. Qualifications 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. 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 the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $251,900 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $165,600 - $272,300 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here. Microsoft Corporation

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