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Azure Principal Technical Architect - Innovation Hub
 Microsoft | |
 United States, California, Irvine | |
 Mar 16, 2025 | |
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OverviewOur network of global Microsoft Innovation Hubs are premium customer-facing facilities built to help enterprise customers solve their business challenges through innovative cross-workload solutions. We accelerate our customers' digital transformation by capitalizing on the changing needs of our customers and the new business opportunities of tomorrow. In our Microsoft Innovation Hub located in Irvine, California, we are looking to hire an Azure Principal Technical Architect with Core Infrastructure subject matter expertise where you will be a trusted customer advisor for the following Core Azure Infra Technologies: Azure Security and Governance, IaC, Azure Management Groups, Azure Policy, Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, Azure Local (Arc), Azure Active Directory, Azure Kubernetes Service, and FinOps. As an Azure Principal Technical Architect in the Microsoft Innovation Hub, you will be working at the forefront of Microsoft innovation, helping customers create and implement a vision and strategy for their digital transformation with a range of highly tailored single or multi-day engagements. 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. Part of a world-wide community of exceptional peers, you'll have access to the latest software and hardware, and you'll be given the time and budget to develop as a globally influential technical leader. This role is Microsoft onsite only. By applying to this U.S. based position, relocation is not provided for the role. 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.
ResponsibilitiesDeliver customer engagements: Based at your facility location, you will prepare and deliver technical engagements to enterprise customers. These include Business envisioning, Solution envisioning, Architecture design, Rapid prototype, and Hackathon. 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 Azure infrastructure: Guide business and technical decision makers on creating business value on top of the Azure platform. Synthesize business and technical architecture requirements. Serve as the as the go-to technical expert in Azure Infrastructure space with a specific focus on Data Center Migration, Networking, Backup/Recovery, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, and Security, Governance and Compliance within regulated industries for the regional sales teams. Design and develop industry and platform experiences and demonstrations that leverage both hardware and software to educate, illuminate and inspire customers. Show the value of the Azure operations platform and GitHub for planning, building, deploying, and operating Azure environments and services through automation. OtherEmbody our Culture and Values | |