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Microsoft UK • London, United Kingdom

EMEA Senior Digital Natives Technology Specialist

Employment type:  Full time

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top 3 scores:
83%

Location flexibility

81%

Hours flexibility

79%

Autonomy

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Job Description

We’re looking for a Technology Specialist (Apps & Innovation) to join our Digital Natives team in the UK. In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of cloud-native architecture, designing systems that fully leverage the cloud’s unique capabilities, including scalability, automation, and cost efficiency.

As part of a virtual team of technical, partner, and consulting resources, you’ll educate customers at a technical level, demonstrating and proving our solutions to influence technical decisions. This role also offers the opportunity to develop deep technical expertise across both Microsoft and non-Microsoft cloud technologies, such as Containers, DevOps, AI and modern Software Development Lifecycles.

Digital Natives is one of Microsoft’s most exciting and fastest-growing teams. We work with some of the most high-potential startups and scaleups in EMEA. You’ll be part of a dynamic and innovative team, engaging with vibrant, curious, and rapidly scaling customers to help them build the next generation of intelligent, cloud-native applications.

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

As a Technology Specialist, you will own and win the technical decision of customers by demonstrating the value of Microsoft’s cloud services, and gaining our customers’ trust in Azure for their workloads, tools, and data. Some of your key responsibilities will include:

  • Providing technical guidance on Azure application innovation, including PaaS, DevOps, and advanced app coding techniques.
  • Assisting customers with app modernization strategies and the technical architecture required to implement comprehensive solutions on Azure, leveraging best practices.
  • Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of orchestration tools like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), helping customers to manage, scale, and deploy containerized applications seamlessly.
  • Architecting solutions that efficiently support multi-tenancy, enabling optimised resource utilisation and cost-effectiveness without compromising on isolation and security between tenants.
  • Acting as a trusted advisor to our top clients, helping them incorporate Azure app development services into their overarching cloud strategy, and recommending migration paths and architectures that include Azure PaaS services.
  • Conducting architectural design sessions to establish implementation plans aligned with customer business objectives and their technical infrastructure.
  • Guiding customers through complex scenarios involving hybrid and multi-cloud container deployments, ensuring seamless integration and management across various platforms.
  • Addressing a range of customer readiness challenges including security, performance, scalability, and intellectual property considerations.
  • Engaging with customers and collaborating with account and partner teams to drive new opportunities, resolve technical obstacles, and contribute strategies to expedite deal closure.
  • Remaining continually abreast of advancements and trends in cloud app development to ensure our team and our solutions stay at the industry's forefront.
  • Influencing Azure app innovation strategy by advocating for customer needs and requirements.
  • Being an Azure Platform evangelist, inspiring customers, partners, and the external community, fostering developer communities through various outreach activities.

Qualifications

With your ability to communicate at all levels within an organisation and your determined and adaptable style, you will be a key driver of Microsoft’s ambitions to partner with the largest start-ups and digitally native organisations in the world. To be successful, you will be able to demonstrate:

  • Practical knowledge of cloud architecture patterns and practices, software development lifecycle and secure by design concepts on building software.
  • Extensive experience in a technical pre-sales or technical consulting role
  • Experience with cloud and hybrid, or on-premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management
  • Experience working in startups or with startups, and knowledge of the startup ecosystem
  • Regular interaction with senior level decision-makers
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field OR equivalent experience

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.

Company benefits

Wellbeing allowance
Health insurance
Dental coverage
Gym membership
Mental health platform access
Buy or sell annual leave
Shared parental leave
Charity donation scheme
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts
Volunteer days
Fertility treatment leave
Open to compressed hours
Open to job sharing
Fertility benefits
Enhanced sick pay
Enhanced sick days
Compassionate leave
Travel insurance
20 days annual leave + bank holidays
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Adoption leave
Childcare credits
Carer’s leave
Cycle to work scheme
Faith rooms
Annual bonus
Annual pay rises
Company car
Hackathons
Open to part-time employees
Pregnancy loss leave
Life insurance
Equity packages
Financial coaching
Relocation packages
Sabbaticals
Enhanced pension match/contribution

We asked employees of Microsoft UK what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
83%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
81%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
67%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
63%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
74%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
79%
Employees feel that they can mostly manage how they get their own work done

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