The Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in Amsterdam is seeking a Microsoft Technology Architect with extensive Industry, technical, architecture and security experience to help large enterprises harness the power of the Microsoft Cloud to transform their business.

　　In this role, you will work with C-level executives, business and technical decision-makers in Microsoft enterprise accounts as well as newer, next-generation companies that have built their enterprise on the cloud.

　　Our global network of Microsoft Technology Centers (MTCs) are premium customer-facing facilities designed to help enterprise customers solve their business challenges through innovative cross-workload solutions. We accelerate our customers’ digital transformation by capitalizing on their changing needs and new business opportunities.

　　As a Senior Technical Architect in the MTC, you will be at the forefront of Microsoft innovation, helping customers create and implement a vision and strategy for their digital transformation. Spanning from industry vision to technical architecture. You will be an integral part of their transformation journey, challenging their ways of thinking and helping them realize and adopt the benefits of our Cloud.

　　You will also be part of a world-wide community of exceptional peers, with access to a top tier Microsoft facility, the latest software and hardware.

　　An MTC architect role is a leading architect position at Microsoft, with a breadth in knowledge of the Microsoft Cloud platform and technical depth in specific topics as part of a cross platform team. In the MTC you’ll have the time, visibility and resources to develop yourself as a globally influential technology & thought leader.

　　Responsibilities

　　Deliver customer engagements: Based at your facility location, you will prepare and deliver technical engagements to enterprise customers. These include strategy sessions, envisioning workshops, architecture design sessions, building rapid prototypes, and hackathons. You take a cross-solution view to leverage capabilities across the entire Microsoft cloud platform. You will work collaboratively with account teams to determine the best engagements for a given opportunity to maximize customer benefit and accelerate deals success.

　　Solution design: Using your technical knowledge, architectural approach, consultancy skills and our methodology to win a customer’s technical decision to buy and use Microsoft solutions and cloud services.

　　Set vision: You will use your technical knowledge to show customers an inspiring digital vision, across all Microsoft workloads, as well as deeper engagement in your core technology specialism. You will make this digital vision real using the architecture skills of you and your peers to provide a complete solution.

　　Build strategy: You will map the agreed customer vision into a strategy for implementation, resolving concerns, removing technical blockers, and validating a strong business case for investment. You will work with the customer, wider account team resources and our partners to orchestrate a roadmap for implementation.

　　An expert in security: Guide business and technical decision makers on increasing compliance, reducing risk, and creating business value on top of the Microsoft Security platform. Synthesize business and technical architecture requirements. Serve as the as the go-to technical expert in the security space for the regional sales team. Working with other security organizations in Microsoft to generate and reuse content; accelerate customer adoption and influence prioritization of solution development. The opportunity to deliver speaking engagements evangelizing Microsoft Security in business conferences.

　　Qualifications

　　Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs):

　　8+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

　　OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

　　Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

　　Structured facilitator. Validated customer experience in requirements capture; prioritization; capturing evidence and impact to quantify business value; issue, risk and constraint identification

　　Technical Intermediate but handson level experience across the full range of Microsoft cloud solutions – Azure infrastructure, Azure Developer, Azure data, artificial intelligence, business applications, modern workplace and productivity, security, business applications. Demonstrated experience of solution architectures which span multiple workloads

　　Technical depth.Experience as a solutions architect, security researcher, incident responder or equivalent in the area of Microsoft’s security toolset or major competitive security technologies. An understanding of the broader Microsoft Cloud technology stack and how it complements the security components. Design of security architectures that are aligned to regulatory and governance models. Advanced industry security certifications such as CISSO, GSE or similar

　　Designing, architecting, developing and proving cloud-based solutions with sustained availability, smart scale, and enterprise grade security;

　　Cloud technologies (with a focus on Saas & PaaS), leveraging the Microsoft Cloud Platform (Azure) and/or Amazon Web Services;

　　Industry Breadth - Deep understanding of key industry trends and challenges in one or more industries including architecture, industry partners/ISVs and innovations.

　　Senior sparring partner for Executives and BDM stakeholders within the customers organization

　　Understanding on regulatory requirements such as/e.g. NIS2, DORA, CSRD and so.

　　Design Thinking. Proven experience of delivering design thinking; ‘ideation’; or similar context analysis / problem framing.

　　Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .