Cloud Solution Architect - SharePoint

Overview

With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization at Microsoft is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers’ expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft’s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.

Role Summary

We are looking for a Cloud Solution Architect - SharePoint, who is passionate about driving our customers’ business applications & AI transformation on the Microsoft platform. This is a customer-facing role, owning both the business applications-focused technical relationship and technical strategy between the customer and Microsoft, helping customers to leverage their Microsoft investments through architecture, implementation and operational health engagements. As a Cloud Solution Architect - SharePoint you will be a strategic trusted advisor and technical subject matter expert, ensuring seamless onboarding, adoption, and value realization across Microsoft’s SharePoint solutions, including M365, PowerShell, Data Security and Governance, SQL, Azure Infrastructure, Microsoft 365 Backup and Cloud Adoption Framework.

Microsoft's Mission & Culture

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.

Responsibilities

• Customer Centric: Drive positive Customer Satisfaction and become a trusted advisor to customers and partners by leveraging Microsoft SharePoint expertise to enable defined Customer Success Plan outcomes. You will actively listen and respectfully challenge to drive the best outcomes.
• Customer/Partner Insights: Provide feedback & insights from customers/partners back to the relevant Microsoft teams to enable continuous improvement.
• Accelerate Value Realization: Actively engage with business and technical decision makers to drive intent, enablement and usage of Microsoft SharePoint, securing long-term customer renewal. Galvanize technical and sales experts around additional identified opportunities to develop customer specific roadmaps that drive further growth & business value realization.
• Business Impact - Usage (Cloud & Support) Growth: Identify and develop opportunities to drive Customer Success by working with business and technical decision-makers to communicate the value of Microsoft SharePoint solutions and help customers maximize their technology investments.
• Resolution of Customer Blockers: Identify resolutions to issues blocking go-live of customer success projects by leveraging deep knowledge of Microsoft SharePoint products & technical subject matter expertise. Lead technical conversations with customers to drive value from their MS investments. Deliver all work according to MS best practices & policies and using repeatable IP.
• Learn-It-All: Demonstrate a self-learner mindset through continuous, self-directed learning in areas such as SharePoint management, virtualization, AI integration, business value realization, and adoption and change management. Build and maintain technical readiness aligned to Customer Success Unit (CSU) priorities and corporate initiatives.
• Accelerate Customer Outcomes: Engage in relevant communities to share expertise, contribute to IP creation, prioritize IP re-use and learn from others to help accelerate your customers transformation journey.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 2+ 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.

Other Requirements

• Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role’s job duties.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, 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 Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience
• 4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external)
• 4+ years experience working on technical projects
• Technical certifications in relevant technologies or disciplines (SharePoint, Microsoft 365, or related technologies).
• Knowledge of SharePoint, Microsoft 365, PowerShell, Data Security and Governance, SQL, Azure Infrastructure, Microsoft 365 Backup, Cloud Adoption Framework, etc.

Compensation Information

Cloud Solution Architecture IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,100 - $169,800 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 $112,000 - $185,300 per year.

Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 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 $137,600 - $222,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Key skills/competency

• SharePoint Management
• Cloud Architecture
• Microsoft 365
• Data Security & Governance
• Azure Infrastructure
• PowerShell Scripting
• Customer Success
• Technical Advisory
• Value Realization
• AI Transformation
• Cloud Adoption Framework