FastTrack Architect

Job Description

Overview
Microsoft 365 continues to experience incredible growth as the company focuses on its productivity cloud strategy and enabling secure remote work for its customers. As part of Microsoft Engineering, The FastTrack team has a primary role driving this strategy and is looking for individuals that share the passion to drive business value and customer success through the use of Microsoft 365 and related technologies. The FastTrack team is looking for FastTrack Architect to support a portfolio of enterprise customers to deploy the Microsoft 365 suite aligned by three solution areas: (1) Copilot (2) Security and Compliance and (3) W365. In partnership with the Microsoft field sales and services teams (STU, ATU, M&O, Services), this role supports customers to transform their business and IT environments through adoption and usage of Microsoft 365.

Responsibilities
- Engage and develop deep relationships with select Microsoft enterprise customers to ensure they get the full value of their Microsoft 365 investment. - Trusted technical advisor to provide technical deployment guidance and best practices, design their migration and upgrade plans, overcome hesitancy, and gain commitment from the customer to move forward with those plans. - Ensure FastTrack scale resources and Partners deliver that plan with the customer and resolve any escalations or delays. - Serves as the chief deployment coordinator, demonstrating both technical and project governance capabilities. - Identify customer deployment, revenue, and transformation opportunities through consistently evaluating the customer environment, engaging with customer business and technical leaders, coordinating with the customer account teams, and delivering briefings on relevant technical solutions and strategies.

Qualifications
- Strong leadership skills, strategic and critical thinking as well as technical expertise on Microsoft 365 deployment and products - Excellent customer communication skills and ability to collaborate within and outside Microsoft while dealing with Senior technical and business leaders. - Technical proficiency of the Microsoft 365 Copilot (Intermediate level across M365 suite, Expert level on at least one workload (Modern Management, Data Security or Threat Protection) - Expertise and Ability to explain technical scenarios, roadmap, key solutions, and technical architectures supported by Microsoft 365. - Great customer facing skills including the ability to rapidly establish and maintain personal and organizational credibility with Customers and Partners through deep delivery knowledge and effective communication. - Proven track record delivering on team revenue or usage targets. - Ability to collaborate effectively with field and product teams to ensure customer success. - Microsoft 365 planning and deployment experience with enterprise customers. - Expertise and ability to explain key solutions and technical architectures in Microsoft 365 and associated technologies. - Growth mindset: drive to stay up to date with changes to enterprise technology. - Travel up to 25%. - 4 to 10+ years technical consulting, IT administration, support, project management, customer success management, or related work.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.