This role is for an Enterprise Architect at Microsoft who will deliver advisory and planning services to top enterprise customers. The architect will help customers achieve business goals by leveraging the Microsoft platform through strategic planning and technology initiatives. They will develop relationships with business executives to translate needs into IT strategy and drive initiatives for early results. Additionally, the architect will promote architectural best practices, Microsoft technologies, and maximize value from the customer relationship. Qualifications include 8-10 years of business and IT consulting experience, understanding of markets/industries, and executive-level communication skills.

1. Enterprise Architect
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 our Enterprise Strategy business, you will deliver advisory and planning services
to Microsoft’s top 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 executionof their
strategic technology initiatives. This provides alignment to our customers’ broader business goals and
promotes innovation 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.

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 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 expectedthat 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 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 (Computer Science, Social Science or Business), and/or equivalent experience
 At least 8 - 10 years related business and IT consulting experience
 Must have a proven record of delivering business value from Information Technology at an
executive level
 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)

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 The ability and background experience to provide leadership and a demonstrated effectiveness in
consulting and client management
 Executive-level interpersonal, verbal, writtenand presentation skills
 Forming and leading virtual teams and collaborating across large, matrixedorganizations
 Travel is an integral expectation of this position as the needs of our customers and our business
demand. This position location is flexible.
If you find this opportunity to be compelling and can demonstrate your ability to excel as an Enterprise
Architect, we would like to explore the possibilities with you as soon as possible!