Cloud Application Architect

Role PurposeMicrosoft Services for the Enterprise offers IT Consultancy and Support at every stage of the IT Life Cycle. Together with our partners, our trained consultants and support specialists offer expert help with formulating strategy, quantifying business benefits, identifying opportunities and implementing solutions that best meet customer requirements. Where customers and partners are developing or implementing Enterprise solutions or large-scale platform services that are core to their business, they are increasingly looking for a degree of assurance from Microsoft that the solution implemented will both perform as specified and deliver the expected [login to view URL] order to support this requirement, Microsoft Services has a team of Solution Architects capable of taking a lead role through the lifecycle of a project - from Envisioning through Development to Maintenance and Evolution of the solution. The primary role of the Solution Architect is to assure the delivery of a complex project through provision of architecture advice, guidance, leadership and review, working with customer and partner architects. The Solution Architect in Enterprise Services is involved also in risk management for the practice as well as in pre-sales and opportunities discovery with broad focus around enterprise, industry, platform and [login to view URL] would be particularly interested in hearing from candidates with rounded experience of Application Lifecycle Management, Modern Application Development, Web Applications & Services and Database technologies, with knowledge of Cloud Architectures (Microsoft Azure / Amazon Web Services / Salesforce / Google), Platform as a Service, Internet of Things, Machine Learning and Power [login to view URL] we are recruiting:Due to increasing demand from our Enterprise customers, we are now looking to expand the team and recruit an entrepreneurial software architect. In this role you will own the Architectural Lifecycle, from pre-sales to delivery, of large, complex and market moving-solution development and platform delivery programs. You will propose and deliver Solutions architecture services in complex, challenging projects. Acting as a lead architect in enterprise programs of work, you will encourage and grow others within the team. As an MCS Architect you will be accountable for providing Microsoft customers repeatable, measurable and consistent software architectures based on repeatable patterns, principles and proven [login to view URL] focus areas of this role:• Business Development – As an Architect within Microsoft Services, you are responsible for supporting the Enterprise Sales Organization in developing opportunities that delight our customers and that meet their business needs and aligning technology strategy back to their business.• Planning - Define the project approach, deliverables and team model needed to deliver the desired outcomes/business benefit, define an appropriate strategy, reuse existing IP.• Delivery – Provide leadership and technical assurance to ensure the solution implemented will perform as specified & deliver the expected benefits, capture new IP, attends milestone reviews, manages/mitigates escalations that impact/alter the vision of the [login to view URL] you who we are looking for? We are looking for those who have previous demonstrable Architecture experience & are capable of applying Microsoft Solutions Framework & Microsoft Operations Framework (or industry aligned framework methodologies such as Zachman and TOGAF). The successful candidate will have a demonstrable track record of architecting, estimating and delivering solutions with enterprise customers, an ability to manage ambiguity in an evolving and dynamic environment and the ability to challenge customer requirements and drive good trade off decisions based on business needs and technical [login to view URL] successful candidate will be able to demonstrate broad technical knowledge, is resourceful, confident under pressure, has demonstrated skills in CxO level communications, and expectation management. The role needs to be able to assess current customer IT environments and be able to identify the gaps in moving the customer to the cloud [login to view URL] will lead Cloud and Application projects from conception through to sign-off in enterprise organizations. This includes pre-sales proposal, requirements gathering, definition of functional and non-functional specification, creation of the solution architecture, detailed design, migration design, test plan, solution development/build-out and [login to view URL], you will have a breadth of solution experience, encompassing infrastructure (private and public cloud) and integration of on premise and cloud solutions. Experience of Identity Management, Office 365 and the Windows Client and Service Operating Systems, including migration is advantageous. Sounds interesting…? This role is based at our headquarters in Madrid. This role has frequent travel to customer locations. Microsoft has a flexible working culture and on an average week your time could be split between the office, customer locations and working from homeExperiences Required: Key Experiences, Skills and Knowledge;8 – 10 years of related IT experience Soft skills:- Analytical Problem Solving- Building Customer/Partner Relationships- Confidence - Cross-Boundary Collaboration - Impact and Influence- Interpersonal Awareness - Services Project Management - Strategic Insight - Value Selling - Dealing with ambiguity Product & Technology Expertise:- ALM (UML, SCRUM, TFS)- Azure PaaS (Notification HUB, IoT HUB, Service Bus, Web/Worker Roles, MicroServices, etc.)- Web Development (ASP.NET, JavaScript, SignalR, AngularJS, Bootstrap, JQuery, etc.)- REST API development (ASP.NET WebAPI, NodeJS)- DB development (SQL Server, tables index stored procedures, OData, Entity Framework)- Software design patterns (MVC, MVVM, MVP, IoC, etc.)- Architecture patterns (Multi-tier, EDA, SOA, MicroServices, etc.)Education:Bachelor’s Degree (B.S./B.A.) RequiredMust have a degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent work experience. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity. All applications for vacant positions will be welcomed and will be considered on the relative merits of the applicant against the role profile for the position regardless of color, race, nationality, ethnic origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, parental responsibilities, age, religion, or belief.