Microsoft Industry Solutions Delivery is a global organization hosting over 6,000 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.
We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Consultant with in-depth expertise across Microsoft Azure, including Landing Zones, networking, governance, and infrastructure as code. This role combines deep technical knowledge with strong business consulting capabilities to deliver enterprise-scale Azure solutions that align with client strategy and drive business value. You will act as a trusted advisor, shaping cloud adoption journeys, and leading complex transformations across various industries.
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
- Demonstrate the ability to articulate value propositions for the most strategic Microsoft products and services and uses business, technology and industry strategies to define customer/partner requirements and constraints
- Demonstrate expertise in a specific solution, or several products, feature functions, or services and drive opportunities to accelerate the adoption of the Microsoft Cloud
- Drive and support innovation focusing on industry solutions and customer business outcomes on the Microsoft platform
- Ensure solutions align with the intent of the architecture allowing for clear build test specifications and development of operations guides for the customer
- Identify business and technical risks in programs, assesses their impact and proposes mitigations and contingencies
- Provide stakeholder assistance throughout deployment to avoid/resolve technical issues
- Balance Configure-Before-Customize principles with the goals of maximum customer/partner value and with the use of Microsoft core/baseline assets, people, products and tools and develop project plans that use the full project life cycle accounting for current & future business value of each solution while defining all technical dependencies for project
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or related field AND 1+ year(s) work experience in relevant area of business
OR equivalent experience.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in Technology consulting with a focus on Microsoft technologies.
- Designing and implementing private, public and/or hybrid cloud solutions.
- Designing, implementing, and securing resources in Azure.
- Proven experience architecting and delivering Azure Landing Zones, governance, policy management, and role-based access control.
- An understanding of Azure networking.
- Knowledge of or an interest in one or more of the following: Azure PowerShell, CLI, Visual Studio, Python, Ruby, ARM or Terraform.
- Knowledge of Azure DevOps and Infra-as-Code (IaC).
- Experience engaging with enterprise clients and managing complex stakeholder environments.
- Excellent communication, presentation and business analysis skills with a variety of different audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to match technical solutions with customer business requirements.
- Ability to quickly build relationships and credibility with customers.
- A passion for learning about and experimenting with new technologies.
- Take a leadership role on projects.
- Agile & Scrum delivery experience
- Microsoft Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator Associate, and/or DevOps Engineer Expert are highly desirable.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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