Cloud Solution Architect - French speaker

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.

The Global Customer Success (GCS) organization, an organization within CE&S, is leading the effort to enable customer success on the Microsoft Cloud by harnessing leading, AI-powered capabilities and human expertise to deliver innovation solutions that accelerate business value, drive operational excellence and nurture long term loyalty.

We are looking for a Cloud Solution Architect (Security) for our EMEA region who is passionate about driving our customers’ security transformation on the Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 Platforms. This is a customer-facing role, owning the technical relationship between the customer and Microsoft, helping customers to leverage their Microsoft investments through architecture, implementation, and operational health engagements.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 100% from home.

*Candidates must be fluent (professional level) in French and English.
*Additional languages are strongly appreciated and represent a plus. 

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

Customer Centricity
*Customer Satisfaction - Drive positive Customer Satisfaction & become a trusted advisor.
*Customer/Partner Insights - Provide feedback & insights from customers/partners.
*Be the Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with *Global Security teams at Microsoft, Engineering and Product teams to remove blockers and influence the solution roadmap.
*Land an end-to-end value prop for Security (i.e., Zero Trust) which spans the breadth of Microsoft Security offerings, and with focus on Threat Protection, ID + Access Management and Cloud Security.

Business Impact
*Position and deliver solutions that drive Security product usage and develop opportunities to drive Customer Success business results & help Customers get value from their Microsoft investments.
*Identify resolutions to Customer blockers by leveraging SA subject matter expertise.
*Deliver according to MS best practices & using repeatable IP.

*Accelerate Business Value of overall Security adoption by improving security posture and ensuring that the solution exhibits “Secure by Design” framework, such as high-performance levels, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment.

Technical Leadership
*Learn It All – Align individual skilling to team/area demands & Customer Success goals.
*Accelerate customer outcomes - Share expertise, contribute to IP creation & re-use to accelerate customer outcomes.
*Run Architectural Design Session to build a plan for implementing the solution – governing design in line with customer business goals and their technical environment. Outcome is consensus on solution design and next steps toward production.
*Collaborate and orchestrate with other Cloud Solution Architects and MS stakeholders including FastTrack, partner, and Microsoft Consulting in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions with the Microsoft Security platform.

Qualifications

*Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND Proven technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
OR Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND Proven technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
OR equivalent experience


*Certification in Microsoft 365 Security Administration or Azure Security

*One or more of Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCSP, IAPP, etc. preferred

*Deep knowledge of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems; Next Gen Web Application Firewalls and Secure Web Gateways; Threat detection technologies; Log analysis and Incident Response; Cloud security technologies, architectures and concepts such as Zero Trust, cloud security posture management, cloud workload protection, Cloud code security and Cloud infrastructure entitlement management.

*Extensive working experience with Security in the context of Cloud Computing: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Services (PaaS), and Software as a service and understanding of one or more cloud security standards and frameworks such as CIS, NIST, CSA, etc.

*Experience and passion for learning (technical and professional skills); implementing practices from others; trying, failing, and learning from both successes and failures; sharing practices and knowledge for others’ benefit.


IMPORTANT:
As this team covers EMEA and Asia based customers, being proficient in multiple languages (on top of English and French which are required) such as German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese would be advantageous.

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