Enterprise Architect - Mid-west District - Indianapolis, IN - Microsoft US Enterprise Services

Are you ready to seize an opportunity to work with Microsoft's most established and innovative enterprises and advising Line of Business and IT Executives? Have you got a track record of helping enterprise leaders transform their business by executing against long-term strategies and roadmaps for pragmatic technology adoption? Interested in employing strong business and architectural skills and leveraging your abstract thinking to create innovative solutions for the largest organizations in the world?

Microsoft Services helps customers realize their full potential through accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies. We are a global team of exceptional people who deliver world-class services with partners, earning customer confidence, trust, and loyalty by improving the overall customer and partner experience, serving as the customer advocate within Microsoft, and driving customer-centric product improvement.

As an Enterprise Architect, in this strategic role within Enterprise Strategy Services, you will deliver advisory and planning services to Microsoft’s top enterprise customers, enabling our customers to achieve their most challenging business and organizational goals while leveraging value from their investment in the Microsoft Platform. Through a programmatic approach and objective assessment of the customer’s existing business imperatives, organizational capabilities and IT investments, you will systematically plan, orchestrate, and contribute to the development and execution of their strategic technology initiatives.

With IT sponsorship, you’ll develop relationships with key business executives, enabling the customer to translate business needs and insights into actionable IT strategy, and assist IT in driving these initiatives to early results and business value.

You will also share industry-proven architectural and planning practices and promote successful integration of Microsoft technologies in a heterogeneous environment. You’ll be provided an extensive network of professional colleagues with complementary competencies and expertise, bringing the best of Microsoft to customers.

The sections below identify the key areas of focus and offer insight into the more common activities:

Relationship-driven differentiation: As the primary delivery resource for the Enterprise Strategy business, what you provide is unique and available only from Microsoft. You’ll advocate on behalf of the customer back into the Microsoft organization and maximize the value delivered from the relationship. Core activities include:

• Orchestrating Executive Briefing Center visits and bi-directional connection with Microsoft Product Development Groups as well as many other teams and communities.

• Facilitating the Customer’s uptake of Technology Adoption Programs for early advantage from pre-released Microsoft Products.

• Harnessing insights from groups like Microsoft Research, one of the largest sponsored technology research organizations worldwide. You’ll also have access to ‘the Library’, a catalogue of reference architectures, industry insights and field-driven Intellectual Property, providing exceptional and unique value to the customer.

• Partnering with your CTO/CIO and facilitating IT staff development amongst their reports.

Business-driven portfolio value management: A disciplined approach is followed in this role - first to understand the customer’s needs and then to develop roadmaps that result in an increase in realized value from their Microsoft investment across a heterogeneous IT environment. Activities include:

• Creating business case development and benefits management programs that define, track and report accrued value through the optimal application of IT to business challenges.

• Orchestrating and/or designing and architecting solutions that leverage both the investment made in the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and the customer’s current heterogeneous IT environment in the best interests of the customer, driven through a formal program of change and drawing from the collective know-how of Microsoft.

• Providing portfolio governance and oversight to drive lifecycle optimization and alignment across all Microsoft-related initiatives.

Teaming to accelerate value: When a customer invests in an Enterprise Agreement license with Microsoft, the Enterprise Architect accelerates the time-to-value by aligning the technology deployment and business adoption plans with the customer’s broader organizational objectives. Activities to support this objective include:

• Creating architectural and technology roadmaps that result in stronger business/IT alignment and that drive adoption and value from the Enterprise Agreement.

• Orchestrating the use of the Microsoft network of resources formally from within the Architect’s individual engagement. This can range from formal architectural systems design through to general technology consulting and beyond. Likewise an Architect may be called on by colleagues to contribute from their area of specialization in other large engagements or to work jointly with the Microsoft support team around specific customer initiatives.

Practice development: In this role, you’ll contribute to the growth and maturity of the local and international communities by providing mentorship, fostering IP development / knowledge transfer, and thought-leading by example. In addition, opportunities exist to contribute to IP development and reuse initiatives and drive proven practices in architecture, planning, and customer relationships.

Business development: You will also have the opportunity to bring your years of experience and expertise to influence continued business development opportunities for Microsoft.

In addition to the above activities, it is expected that the successful candidate will have significant experience in at least one specialization from the three categories below:

Industry: Experience in one or more of the following Sectors/Industries: Government; Healthcare; Financial Services; Telecommunications, Retail; Manufacturing; Energy

Microsoft Strategic priorities: Cloud/S+S; Enterprise level / Mission Critical Applications; Optimized Desktop; Unified Communications and Collaboration

Enterprise Architect Specializations:

• Business Value Analysis and Benefits Management

• IT Governance & Portfolio Lifecycle Optimization

• IT-Led Business Insight & Innovation

• Organizational Design & Change Management

• Enterprise Architecture

• Information Management

Qualifications and Experience:

• Must have a relevant degree and/or equivalent experience

• At least 8 years related business and IT consulting experience across the lifecycle of Information Technology (examples may include assessment and analysis, design, business case development, architecture, envisioning, planning, deployment, benefits analysis, and management)

• Must have a proven record of delivering business value from IT at an executive level

• Solid understanding of interoperability issues and platform/product strengths and weaknesses

• Able to provide a trusted voice at the decision-making table

• Deep understanding of markets, industries, business, customers, and technology

• The ability and background experience to provide leadership and a demonstrated effectiveness in consulting and client management

• Executive-level interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills

• Forming and leading virtual teams and collaborating across large, matrixed organizations

Location/Travel: This role will be based in the Midwest District, which includes Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, with a preference for Indianapolis, IN. Travel is an integral expectation of this position as the needs of our customers and our business demand.

If you find this opportunity to be compelling and know you can excel as an Enterprise Architect, we are eager to explore the possibilities with you!

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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WW Dir, Architect Mgr Enterprise Strategy COE

Do you have a passion for driving transformative business initiatives globally?   Can you imagine leading a team of global thought leaders in support of the Enterprise Strategy Programs? Then, this could be your next great career adventure!

The WW Director Enterprise Strategy CoE is responsible for leading and managing a team of high-performing individuals across the A13, (Asia Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Greater China, India, Japan, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, United Kingdom, Western Europe, Canada and United States Areas), as well as anchoring relationship and engagement with key A13 stakeholders, helping Microsoft sales teams to pursue, land and deliver Enterprise Strategy engagements in the Global and Multinational corporations(MNCs).

This role is most critical during sales support, discovery and design phases, with broad focus around enterprise, industry, platform and solutions. The WW Director will be expected to bring their years of experience and business acumen to bear on worldwide business development opportunities and contribute to thought leadership across both Microsoft Services and the Enterprise and Partner Group (EPG).

Responsibilities include:

¨ Partnering with key A13 Services and EPG stakeholders to develop, lead and execute on an appropriate strategy for successful CoE engagement in the A13 areas and target subsidiaries

¨ Driving successful Enterprise Strategy sales and delivery

¨ Recruiting and managing a high performing team, meeting quarterly and yearly business performance KPI’s

¨ Managing team career aspirations and people development

¨ Providing field and customer guidance during the sales cycle, and during delivery for Globals/MNCs

¨ Driving operational excellence and innovation

¨ Growing the field capability through mentoring, readiness, and community evangelism

This is a leadership position which is accountable for the results and execution of the role’s direct reports. Core activities for this role’s team include:

¨ Creating business case development and benefits management artefacts resulting in the successful sale and delivery

¨ Leading solution selling presales workshops with Business and Technical Decision Maker (BDM and TDM) audiences to accelerate pipeline and grow share

¨ Delivering outcomes that maximize business value for our Globals/MNC and grow share of wallet for Microsoft

¨ Providing governance and oversight to drive the CoE field execution with both field Services and EPG, and alignment across datacenter-related strategy and planning initiatives

¨ Assisting with IP development and reuse initiatives and harvest best practice in presales, architecture, business planning, and customer engagement

To be a successful candidate for this role, you will need to have

¨ Direct people management experience of a remote team of more than 5 people is required, including ownership of employee recruitment, development, feedback, and performance reviews.  

¨ At least 10+ years related IT and management experience. Industry experience of working for or with organizations in the Telco/Systems Integration/Public Sector/Retail/Oil & Gas/Financial sectors is preferred.

¨ Work experience should involve advisory services, management/technology consulting, consulting and solution presales, solution design, envisioning, planning, deployment, benefits analysis and management.

¨ Must have proven background in selling and delivering into enterprise customers

¨ Must have proven record of delivering business value at an executive level.  

¨ Experience in business process, financial concepts and executive level interpersonal skills.

¨ Relevant field-based knowledge of competing and winning against solutions and technologies from primary competitors e.g. AWS, SAP, Oracle, etc.

¨ Candidates must have a deep understanding of markets, customers, and technology; have the background to provide leadership in the practice and a demonstrated effectiveness in consulting and client management

Travel, approximately 50%, globally, is an integral expectation of this position as the needs of our customers and our business demand.

This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this position.   The actual duties, responsibilities, and qualifications may vary based on assignment or group.

If you find this opportunity to be compelling and can demonstrate your ability to excel as the WW Director, Enterprise Strategy CoE we would like to explore the possibilities with you!

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Enterprise Architect, Northeast District, US Enterprise Services

Are you ready to seize an opportunity to work with Microsoft's most established and innovative enterprises and advising Line of Business and IT Executives? Have you got a track record of helping enterprise leaders transform their business by executing against long-term strategies and roadmaps for pragmatic technology adoption? Interested in employing strong business and architectural skills and leveraging your abstract thinking to create innovative solutions for the largest organizations in the world?

Microsoft Services helps customers realize their full potential through accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies. We are a global team of exceptional people who deliver world-class services with partners, earning customer confidence, trust, and loyalty by improving the overall customer and partner experience, serving as the customer advocate within Microsoft, and driving customer-centric product improvement.

As an Enterprise Architect, in this strategic role within Enterprise Strategy Services, you will deliver advisory and planning services to Microsoft’s top enterprise customers, enabling our customers to achieve their most challenging business and organizational goals while leveraging value from their investment in the Microsoft Platform. Through a programmatic approach and objective assessment of the customer’s existing business imperatives, organizational capabilities and IT investments, you will systematically plan, orchestrate, and contribute to the development and execution of their strategic technology initiatives.

With IT sponsorship, you’ll develop relationships with key business executives, enabling the customer to translate business needs and insights into actionable IT strategy, and assist IT in driving these initiatives to early results and business value.

You will also share industry-proven architectural and planning practices and promote successful integration of Microsoft technologies in a heterogeneous environment. You’ll be provided an extensive network of professional colleagues with complementary competencies and expertise, bringing the best of Microsoft to customers.

The sections below identify the key areas of focus and offer insight into the more common activities:

Relationship-driven differentiation: As the primary delivery resource for the Enterprise Strategy business, what you provide is unique and available only from Microsoft. You’ll advocate on behalf of the customer back into the Microsoft organization and maximize the value delivered from the relationship. Core activities include:

• Orchestrating Executive Briefing Center visits and bi-directional connection with Microsoft Product Development Groups as well as many other teams and communities.

• Facilitating the Customer’s uptake of Technology Adoption Programs for early advantage from pre-released Microsoft Products.

• Harnessing insights from groups like Microsoft Research, one of the largest sponsored technology research organizations worldwide. You’ll also have access to ‘the Library’, a catalogue of reference architectures, industry insights and field-driven Intellectual Property, providing exceptional and unique value to the customer.

• Partnering with your CTO/CIO and facilitating IT staff development amongst their reports.

Business-driven portfolio value management: A disciplined approach is followed in this role - first to understand the customer’s needs and then to develop roadmaps that result in an increase in realized value from their Microsoft investment across a heterogeneous IT environment. Activities include:

• Creating business case development and benefits management programs that define, track and report accrued value through the optimal application of IT to business challenges.

• Orchestrating and/or designing and architecting solutions that leverage both the investment made in the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and the customer’s current heterogeneous IT environment in the best interests of the customer, driven through a formal program of change and drawing from the collective know-how of Microsoft.

• Providing portfolio governance and oversight to drive lifecycle optimization and alignment across all Microsoft-related initiatives.

Teaming to accelerate value: When a customer invests in an Enterprise Agreement license with Microsoft, the Enterprise Architect accelerates the time-to-value by aligning the technology deployment and business adoption plans with the customer’s broader organizational objectives. Activities to support this objective include:

• Creating architectural and technology roadmaps that result in stronger business/IT alignment and that drive adoption and value from the Enterprise Agreement.

• Orchestrating the use of the Microsoft network of resources formally from within the Architect’s individual engagement. This can range from formal architectural systems design through to general technology consulting and beyond. Likewise an Architect may be called on by colleagues to contribute from their area of specialization in other large engagements or to work jointly with the Microsoft support team around specific customer initiatives.

Practice development: In this role, you’ll contribute to the growth and maturity of the local and international communities by providing mentorship, fostering IP development / knowledge transfer, and thought-leading by example. In addition, opportunities exist to contribute to IP development and reuse initiatives and drive proven practices in architecture, planning, and customer relationships.

Business development: You will also have the opportunity to bring your years of experience and expertise to influence continued business development opportunities for Microsoft.

In addition to the above activities, it is expected that the successful candidate will have significant experience in at least one specialization from the three categories below:

Industry: Experience in one or more of the following Sectors/Industries: Government; Healthcare; Financial Services; Telecommunications, Retail; Manufacturing; Energy

Microsoft Strategic priorities: Cloud/S+S; Enterprise level / Mission Critical Applications; Optimized Desktop; Unified Communications and Collaboration

Enterprise Architect Specializations:

• Business Value Analysis and Benefits Management

• IT Governance & Portfolio Lifecycle Optimization

• IT-Led Business Insight & Innovation

• Organizational Design & Change Management

• Enterprise Architecture

• Information Management

Qualifications and Experience:

• Must have a relevant degree and/or equivalent experience

• At least 8 years related business and IT consulting experience across the lifecycle of Information Technology (examples may include assessment and analysis, design, business case development, architecture, envisioning, planning, deployment, benefits analysis, and management)

• Must have a proven record of delivering business value from IT at an executive level

• Solid understanding of interoperability issues and platform/product strengths and weaknesses

• Able to provide a trusted voice at the decision-making table

• Deep understanding of markets, industries, business, customers, and technology

• The ability and background experience to provide leadership and a demonstrated effectiveness in consulting and client management

• Executive-level interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills

• Forming and leading virtual teams and collaborating across large, matrixed organizations

Location: The Northeast District includes New York (not Metro New York), Connecticut and Massachusetts. Travel is an integral expectation of this position as the needs of our customers and our business demand.

If you find this opportunity to be compelling and know you can excel as an Enterprise Architect, we would like to explore the possibilities with you!

SS:ES

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Associate Enterprise Architect, National Security Group

Are you ready to seize an opportunity to work with Microsoft's most established and innovative enterprises and advising Line of Business and IT Executives? Have you got a track record of helping enterprise leaders transform their business by executing against long-term strategies and roadmaps for pragmatic technology adoption? Interested in employing strong business and architectural skills and leveraging your abstract thinking to create innovative solutions for the largest organizations in the world?

Microsoft Services helps customers realize their full potential through accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies. We are a global team of exceptional people who deliver world-class services with partners, earning customer confidence, trust, and loyalty by improving the overall customer and partner experience, serving as the customer advocate within Microsoft, and driving customer-centric product improvement.

In this strategic role within Enterprise Strategy Services, you will deliver advisory and planning services to Microsoft’s top enterprise customers. The Associate Architect enables our customers to achieve their most challenging business and organizational goals while leveraging value from their current and future investment in the Microsoft Platform. Through a programmatic approach and objective assessment of the customer’s existing business imperatives, organizational capabilities and IT investments, the Associate Architect systematically plans, orchestrates, and contributes to the development and execution of their strategic technology initiatives. This provides alignment to our customers’ broader business goals and promotes innovative solutions.

With IT sponsorship, you’ll develop relationships with key line-of-business executives, putting the customer in a position to translate early business needs and insights into actionable IT strategy, and assist IT in driving these initiatives to early results and business value. This work encompasses a solid understanding of business and IT strategy, a principled approach to broader architectural challenges and opportunities, and a strong grasp of business, technology and solutions.

You will also share industry-proven architectural and planning practices and promote successful integration of Microsoft technologies in a heterogeneous environment. You’ll be provided an extensive network of professional colleagues with complementary competencies and whose expertise you can draw upon to enhance the overall service provided by Microsoft to customers.

The sections below identify the key areas of focus and offer insight into the more common activities:

Relationship-driven differentiation: As the primary delivery resource for the Enterprise Strategy business, what you provide is unique and available only from Microsoft. You’ll advocate on behalf of the customer back into the Microsoft organization and maximize the value delivered from the relationship. Core activities include:

• Orchestrating Executive Briefing Center visits and bi-directional connection with Microsoft Product Development Groups as well as many other teams and communities.

• Facilitating the Customer’s uptake of Technology Adoption Programs for early advantage from pre-released Microsoft Products.

• Harnessing insights from groups like Microsoft Research, one of the largest sponsored technology research organizations worldwide. You’ll also have access to ‘the Library’, a catalogue of reference architectures, industry insights and field-driven Intellectual Property (IP) examples that all provide unique value.

• Partnering with your CTO/CIO and facilitating IT staff development amongst their reports.

Business-driven portfolio value management: A disciplined approach is followed in this role - first to understand the customer’s needs and then to develop roadmaps that result in an increase in realized value from their Microsoft investment across a heterogeneous IT environment. Activities include:

• Creating business case development and benefits management programs that define, track and report accrued value through the optimal application of IT to business challenges.

• Orchestrating and/or designing and architecting solutions that leverage both the investment made in the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and the customer’s current heterogeneous IT environment in the best interests of the customer, driven through a formal program of change and drawing from the collective know-how of Microsoft.

• Providing portfolio governance and oversight to drive lifecycle optimization and alignment across all Microsoft-related initiatives.

Teaming to accelerate value: When a customer invests in an Enterprise Agreement license with Microsoft, the Associate Architect accelerates the time-to-value by aligning the technology deployment and business adoption plans with the customer’s broader organizational objectives. Activities to support this objective include:

• Creating architectural and technology roadmaps that result in stronger business/IT alignment and that drive adoption and value from the Enterprise Agreement.

• Orchestrating the use of the Microsoft network of resources formally from within the Architect’s individual engagement. This can range from formal architectural systems design through to general technology consulting and beyond. Likewise an Architect may be called on by colleagues to contribute from their area of specialization in other large engagements or to work jointly with the Microsoft support team around specific customer initiatives.

Practice development: In this role, you’ll contribute to the growth and maturity of the local and international communities by providing mentorship, fostering IP development / knowledge transfer, and thought-leading by example. In addition, opportunities exist to contribute to IP development and reuse initiatives and drive proven practices in architecture, planning, and customer relationships.

Business development: You will also have the opportunity to bring your years of experience and expertise to influence continued business development opportunities for Microsoft.

In addition to the above activities, it is expected that the successful candidate will have significant experience in at least one specialization from the three categories below:

Industry: Experience in one or more of the following Sectors/Industries: Government; Healthcare; Financial Services; Telecommunications, Retail; Manufacturing; Energy

Microsoft Strategic priorities: Cloud/S+S; Enterprise level / Mission Critical Applications; Optimized Desktop; Unified Communications and Collaboration

Associate Architect Specializations:

• Business Value Analysis and Benefits Management

• IT Portfolio Lifecycle Optimization

• Organizational Change Management

• IT Governance

• Enterprise Architecture

• IT-Led Business Innovation

• Business Insight

• Information Management

• Organizational Design

Qualifications and Experience:

§ Must have a degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent work experience.

§ At least 5 - 8 years related IT experience.

§ Work experience should involve technical consulting, solution design, project envisioning, planning, development, deployment, and management.

§ Must have a proven record of delivering business value.

§ Must have a deep understanding of markets, customers, and technology; have the background to provide leadership in the practice and a demonstrated effectiveness in consulting and client management.

§ Must have deep understanding of customer and partner business and IT environment, and have demonstrated skills creating architecture and deploying technology to solve business problems.

§ U.S. Citizen and current security clearance or ability to pass security clearance background checks

Travel is an integral expectation of this position as the needs of our customers and our business demand.

If you find this opportunity to be compelling and can demonstrate your ability to excel as an Associate Architect for Enterprise Strategy Services, we are eager to explore the possibilities with you!

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Enterprise Architect - United States Enterprise Services - National Security Group

Are you ready to seize an opportunity to work with Microsoft's most established and innovative enterprises and advising Line of Business and IT Executives? Have you got a track record of helping enterprise leaders transform their business by executing against long-term strategies and roadmaps for pragmatic technology adoption? Interested in employing strong business and architectural skills and leveraging your abstract thinking to create innovative solutions for the largest organizations in the world? Are you interested in supporting the core missions of our Public Sector organizations from educating our children to providing top of the line citizen services to ensuring the security of our nation?

Microsoft Services helps customers realize their full potential through accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies. We are a global team of exceptional people who deliver world-class services with partners, earning customer confidence, trust, and loyalty by improving the overall customer and partner experience, serving as the customer advocate within Microsoft, and driving customer-centric product improvement.

In this strategic role within our Enterprise Strategy business, you will deliver advisory and planning services to Microsoft’s top Public Sector enterprise customers. The Enterprise Architect enables our customers to achieve their most challenging business and organizational goals while leveraging value from their current and future investment in the Microsoft Platform. Through a programmatic approach and objective assessment of the customer’s existing business imperatives, organizational capabilities and IT investments, the Enterprise Architect systematically plans, orchestrates, and contributes to the development and execution of their strategic technology initiatives. This provides alignment to our customers’ broader business goals and promotes innovative solutions.

With IT sponsorship, you’ll develop relationships with key line-of-business executives, putting the customer in a position to translate early business needs and insights into actionable IT strategy, and assist IT in driving these initiatives to early results and business value. This work encompasses a solid understanding of business and IT strategy, a principled approach to broader architectural challenges and opportunities, and a strong grasp of business, technology and solutions.

You will also share industry-proven architectural and planning practices and promote successful integration of Microsoft technologies in a heterogeneous environment. You’ll be provided an extensive network of professional colleagues with complementary competencies and whose expertise you can draw upon to enhance the overall service provided by Microsoft to customers.

The sections below identify the key areas of focus and offer insight into the more common activities:

Relationship-driven differentiation: As the primary delivery resource for the Enterprise Strategy business, what you provide is unique and available only from Microsoft. You’ll advocate on behalf of the customer back into the Microsoft organization and maximize the value delivered from the relationship. Core activities include:

• Orchestrating Executive Briefing Center visits and bi-directional connection with Microsoft Product Development Groups as well as many other teams and communities.

• Facilitating the Customer’s uptake of Technology Adoption Programs for early advantage from pre-released Microsoft Products.

• Harnessing insights from groups like Microsoft Research, one of the largest sponsored technology research organizations worldwide. You’ll also have access to ‘the Library’, a catalogue of reference architectures, industry insights and field-driven Intellectual Property (IP) examples that all provide unique value.

• Partnering with your CTO/CIO and facilitating IT staff development amongst their reports.

Business-driven portfolio value management: A disciplined approach is followed in this role - first to understand the customer’s needs and then to develop roadmaps that result in an increase in realized value from their Microsoft investment across a heterogeneous IT environment. Activities include:

• Creating business case development and benefits management programs that define, track and report accrued value through the optimal application of IT to business challenges.

• Orchestrating and/or designing and architecting solutions that leverage both the investment made in the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and the customer’s current heterogeneous IT environment in the best interests of the customer, driven through a formal program of change and drawing from the collective know-how of Microsoft.

• Providing portfolio governance and oversight to drive lifecycle optimization and alignment across all Microsoft-related initiatives.

Teaming to accelerate value: When a customer invests in an Enterprise Agreement license with Microsoft, the Enterprise Architect accelerates the time-to-value by aligning the technology deployment and business adoption plans with the customer’s broader organizational objectives. Activities to support this objective include:

• Creating architectural and technology roadmaps that result in stronger business/IT alignment and that drive adoption and value from the Enterprise Agreement.

• Orchestrating the use of the Microsoft network of resources formally from within the Architect’s individual engagement. This can range from formal architectural systems design through to general technology consulting and beyond. Likewise an Architect may be called on by colleagues to contribute from their area of specialization in other large engagements or to work jointly with the Microsoft support team around specific customer initiatives.

Practice development: In this role, you’ll contribute to the growth and maturity of the local and international communities by providing mentorship, fostering IP development / knowledge transfer, and thought-leading by example. In addition, opportunities exist to contribute to IP development and reuse initiatives and drive proven practices in architecture, planning, and customer relationships.

Business development: You will also have the opportunity to bring your years of experience and expertise to influence continued business development opportunities for Microsoft.

In addition to the above activities, it is expected that the successful candidate will have significant experience in at least one specialization from the three categories below:

Industry: Experience in one or more of the following Sectors/Industries: Government/Public Sector; Healthcare; Financial Services; Telecommunications, Retail; Manufacturing; Energy

Microsoft Strategic priorities: Cloud/S+S; Enterprise level / Mission Critical Applications; Optimized Desktop; Unified Communications and Collaboration

Enterprise Architect Specializations:

• Business Value Analysis and Benefits Management

• IT Portfolio Lifecycle Optimization

• Organizational Change Management

• IT Governance

• Enterprise Architecture

• IT-Led Business Innovation

• Business Insight

• Information Management

• Organizational Design

Qualifications and Experience:

• Must have a 4-year degree (Computer Science, Social Science or Business), and/or equivalent experience.

• Graduate business oriented degree is a plus

• At least 8 - 10 years related business and IT consulting experience

• Preferred -- at least 5 years working within the Public Sector (Educational, State and Local Government and/or Federal Government)

• Must have a proven record of delivering business value from Information Technology at an executive level

• Working practical knowledge and experience developing service-oriented Enterprise Architectures based on industry standard & recognized models (DoDAF, TOGAF, etc.)

• Solid understanding of interoperability issues and the strengths and weaknesses of platforms and products, and able to provide a trusted voice at the decision-making table

• Candidates must have a deep understanding of markets, industries, business, customers, and technology. Work experience should involve a mix of business and technology consulting across the lifecycle of Information Technology (examples may include assessment and analysis, design, business case development, architecture, envisioning, planning, deployment, benefits analysis, and management)

• Experience working with Public Sector acquisitions, proposals and government programs and initiatives is preferred

• The ability and background experience to provide leadership and a demonstrated effectiveness in consulting and client management

• Executive-level interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills

• Forming and leading virtual teams and collaborating across large, matrixed organizations

• Travel is an integral expectation of this position as the needs of our customers and our business demand. This position location is flexible.

• U.S. Citizen and current security clearance or ability to pass security clearance background checks

If you find this opportunity to be compelling and can demonstrate your ability to excel as an Enterprise Architect for the National Security Group, we would like to explore the possibilities with you!

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Director - Business Programs, WW Enterprise and Partner Group

How would you like to run the field planning programs for a $27B business?   Would you like to interact with the Field Leaders on landing the fiscal plans which serve as the foundation to drive the Enterprise revenue, share, and scorecard? Do you like having a broad view of the business?   Are you passionate about integrating strategy into the rhythm of the business? The WW Enterprise and Partner Group (EPG) team is looking for a leader to take the strategy, processes, and tools for Microsoft’s Enterprise planning programs to the next level.

The Strategy, Planning and Operations team is looking for an individual who is a strategic thinker, a strong collaborator, and has impeccable planning and execution skills with a focus on driving results while building relationships.   This role is part of a team responsible for building strategy, and integrating that strategy into the field planning program and processes.  

Key Responsibilities include:

•      Direct virtual teams of business leaders to develop comprehensive strategies and drive alignment in their planning to optimize sales capacity and achieve targeted profitability projections

•      Design process, tool, website for all field planning programs including field alignment

•      Align Quota Setting, Segmentation, Resource Blueprints, Account planning, scorecards, and financial planning to the overall field planning process

•      Provide project management of the program including all facets of program lifecycle from initiation through closure

•      Lead various field meetings and landing summits

•      Manage vendor(s) to update and manage document portfolio and website

•      Train the field and WW teams on field alignment process and subsidiary planning and provide support

•      Ensure operating models and strategies align with the overall EPG strategy

•      Align with other Operating Models on FY Priorities, planning process, WWSMM, timelines, communications, deliverables, and field guidance

•      Lead process and infrastructure for field and WW stakeholders to land key Enterprise priorities and strategies and topics for A13 through Priority Playbooks and WWSMM Landing

•      Negotiate with SMSG Finance and WW BMO on expectations on growth planning deliverables

•      Team with WW EPG stakeholders, including Business Architects, Partner team, Services, Marketing, Finance, and Field Enablement to land planning process output to the Enterprise Marketing and Sales Excellence communities

Requirements:

•      10 plus years in a technology oriented organization with experience across multiple disciplines

•      5 plus years driving high performing teams to design, build, test, support, and continuously improve programs

•      Proven effectiveness of planning programs, driving programs to desired results, and managing risk

•      Proven Project/Program Management Leadership including scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, communications, procurement, human resources, and integration management

•      Process oriented to provide predictable outcomes

•      Passionate about Planning and Operational Excellence

•      Field Planning and Operations experience is desired

•      MBA and Six Sigma or Quality Management desired

Discipline Competencies Required:

•      Strategic insight

•      Customer Focus - closed loop process

•      Process Management

•      Strong customer orientation

Leadership Competencies Required:

•      Impact & Influence

•      Executive Maturity

•      Building Organizational Capability

•      Cross Boundary Collaboration

•      One Microsoft

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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