Cloud Solution Architect, Modern Work

With over 18,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of Microsoft's end-to-end customer experience. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers come to us not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, but also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience.

The Global Customer Success (GCS) organization is leading the effort to create the desired customer experience through support offer creation, driving digital transformation across our tools, and delivering operational excellence across CE&S.

We are looking for a Cloud Solution Architect, Modern Work with experience in Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM) and Intune - to join our Global Delivery Team within Global Customer Success. This pivotal role is customer-facing and encompasses a broad range of responsibilities, including the design, build, and maintenance of Microsoft applications, with a key emphasis on problem-solving to overcome technical barriers and drive customer adoption.

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.

Customer Centricity

• Advocates for the customer/partner at all opportunities and shares customer success stories with the wider internal team.
• Develops and expands existing impactful relationships with customer and partner architects and technical specialists, technical decision makers (TDMs), and business stakeholders. Receives and synthesizes data about customer/partner business and technical requirements, addresses them with technical architecture(s), and demonstrates and proves those solutions' capability and value through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner. Contributes to and understands how work aligns with customer success plan and meets customer/partner needs by partnering with the appropriate internal teams and resources to deliver customer outcomes.

• Assesses and transfers knowledge to close customer skill gaps. Guides other team members to focus on customer/partner experience through efficient delivery and ensuring a seamless and connected customer experience. Supports definition of customer/partner conditions of success. Anticipates customer/partner dissatisfaction and unmet needs and executes strategies to

  improve experience, value realization, and acceleration of customer transformation.

• Actively listens and respectfully challenges customers/partners when going in the wrong direction, presents insights and alternatives, and takes action appropriately.

Business Impact

• Leverages standard tools to ensure accurate opportunity and milestone execution and pipeline hygiene.
• Drives customer/partner relationships to anticipate, identify, escalate, and work to resolve technical blockers to accelerate consumption and solution implementations (e.g., by application of technical capabilities).
• Routes non-technical issues for removal by the appropriate party. Applies broad business and technical knowledge across various architecture or other Microsoft solutions to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified technical constraints. Shapes and enhances customers' requirements.
• Proactively uses knowledge of the products, services, and value propositions of Microsoft and its competitors in customer/partner conversations to identify growth opportunities based on knowledge of customer/partner needs. Contributes to increase in consumption and aligns with Customer Success Account Management or other Account Team members on customer/partner priorities to drive growth in consumption via cost optimization, operational excellence performance efficiency, and security. Drives architecture design, resiliency reviews, and technical optimization that result in production deployment application and increase customer/partner usage and consumption. Supports the customer/partner throughout implementation to achieve value outcomes and Microsoft's Customer Promise.

Technical

• Proactively develops technical and professional learning and development plan in alignment with and support from their manager.
• Acts as a mentor and role model to less experienced colleagues to educate them on technical and non-technical concepts. Participates in development opportunities (e.g., Ready, Build, Ignite).

• Generates new ideas for changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and processes for designated customers/partners. Drives opportunities for IP reuse, best practice sharing, and consumption acceleration. Proactively identifies gaps through delivery and communicating those gaps to others (e.g., Leadership, managed intellectual property [MIP], Design, and Governance). Applies subject matter expertise to develop new IP that fills identified gaps

As an MECM/Intune SME, you are will be responsible providing support as well as end-to-end guidance and troubleshooting of MECM/Intune.

• This includes: Windows10/11imaging, Windows updates for business, CO-Management, Desired Configuration Management, Reporting, Autopilot, Compliance/Configuration Policies application creation via MECM/Intune and best practice around both MECM/Intune.

Core Skills MECM/Intune Include :

• Knowledge and advanced troubleshooting skills with Microsoft MECM/SCCM/Intune.
• Microsoft Endpoint Manager Administration and Architecture.
• MECM Role implementation and troubleshooting
• Intune policy creation and troubleshooting
• Autopilot implementation and troubleshooting
• Compliance and configuration policy implementation and troubleshooting
• Co-Management implementation and troubleshooting
• Application creation via MECM/Intune and troubleshooting
• Windows updates implementation and troubleshooting for both Intune and MECM
• Task sequence creation and troubleshooting for OSD
• Client health monitoring and troubleshooting

Other

• Embody our culture and values