City : Greater Toronto

Category : See Posting

Industry : Technology

Employer : Microsoft

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Responsibilities

Cloud Solution Architecture  

Provides technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, installation, and maintenance of company products. Assists the sales staff in assessing potential application of company products to meet customer needs and preparing detailed product specifications for the development and implementation of customer applications/solutions. May build a mini application based on customer requirements to demonstrate feasibility of the application, often requiring rapid prototyping and/or product demo for client.   
  
Responsibilities:  

• 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.  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications  

• For Montreal, Quebec and Ottawa, Ontario locations, proficiency in French is a required qualification.
• Currently pursuing or have completed Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field. 

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 presentation skills.   
• Technical certification in Cloud (e.g., Microsoft, Amazon Web Services [AWS], Google, security certifications).

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