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Microsoft Corporation Solution Architect - Modern Work, Copilot in Multiple Locations, Japan
マイクロソフトインダストリーソリューションズ (ISD, 旧Microsoft Consulting Services)では、Copilot市場の急速な盛り上がりと生成系AIの活用検討をされるお客様の増加に伴い、Microsoft 365, Power Platform等の知見を活かしつつ Copilot for Microsoft 365を中心とした生成系AIを軸とした働き方改革やお客様業務への活用、Change Managementをリードできる 経験豊富なアーキテクトを募集しています。
Microsoft Industry Solutions (ISD) is a global organization hosting over 7,000 strategic sellers, industry and security experts, elite engineers, world-class data scientists and architects, consultants, and delivery specialists. Together with our partners, we help Microsoft’s most strategic customers worldwide to address their specific challenges and provide comprehensive and industry-specific solutions that meet their unique needs.
Our organization is at the forefront of innovation, driving value across the entirety of the customers’ digital and AI transformation journey through repeatable and customized cutting-edge solutions powered by Microsoft Cloud and AI.
We take pride in embodying Microsoft's mission of empowerment, promoting a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and fostering a culture of inclusivity where everyone is encouraged to share their unique perspectives and be their authentic selves. By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to life-changing innovations that impact billions of people worldwide.
Furthermore, by joining our team, you will be at the heart of envisioning, creating, and crafting solutions on Microsoft technologies, the most anticipated Microsoft app to hit the market of new era - and the platform and ecosystem we are building it on for customer.
We are looking for a senior technical consultant who is passionate about maintaining high quality consistently from pre-sales to delivery, proposing business/technical solutions to deliver business outcomes for our customers, and leading the development and release of IT products.
Responsibilities
Leading Solution Proposal to Customers
Understand the outcomes expected by your stakeholders (e.g., enterprise architects, security teams, development teams, operations teams, etc.) and design and propose to customers solutions and architectures that leverage Microsoft cloud services to achieve them. You also recognize risks related to the feasibility of the solution and consider measures to avoid and mitigate them. Design and process the approach to implement the solution.
Define the outputs and develop an overall project schedule to ensure they can be delivered to the milestones customers expect.
Identify the scope for which Microsoft is responsible and what customers are responsible for and create a resource plan to understand the skills and man-hours required to execute the Microsoft scope.
Estimate the extent to which Microsoft's cloud services will be used by the solution.
Realize values for customers
After project start, you will lead a project team to execute the plan. In particular, you are expected to play a leading role in the design of the overall architecture. You also are responsible for the quality of a project team's output.
Consider countermeasures for technical issues and work together with project members to solve them.
Work with a project manager to drive the project forward. In particular, you are responsible for managing technical risks.
Work with project managers to maintain good communication with client stakeholders and control stakeholder expectations.
In addition, we will confirm that the entire project is progressing toward the realization of the customer's results, and if there are any problems, you will discuss with a project manager and proceed necessary countermeasures.
In order to realize customer’s outcome, you will work with other departments within Microsoft involved in the project to obtain the necessary support.
Technical & Business Leadership in Project Delivery
Work with a technical manager in your organizational team to define solution themes that the team should focus on and prepare proposal materials. In addition, you deploy the developed solutions to a sales team to support the proposal activities to customers.
Understand new technical solutions, disseminate information to consultants in the consulting department, and support the learning of consultants.
Join the international architect community to gather and share information on best practices and international solutions with the Japan team.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
10+ years of project experience in technical solutions and architecture design
5+ years of project experience in technical solutions and architecture design using cloud services
Understanding of Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Viva Insights and project experience with them
Understanding of Cloud, Endpoint Security, Compliance solution or experience implementing them
Basic understanding of cloud service infrastructure and its security
Experience in Workstyle innovation, change management PJ using Microsoft 365 or similar services with equivalent functions
Stakeholder management experience in complex project
Native level Japanese
Business level English
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
Several years of experience in digital transformation or using technology to drive customer business outcomes
Microsoft Certification - Microsoft 365, Azure
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