With IT sponsorship, you develop relationships with key customer business executives to help customers translate business needs into actionable strategy:
By assessing the customer’s current state, business goals and challenges, capabilities and existing IT investments, in particular in Microsoft solutions,
By leading the planning and prioritization of strategic IT initiatives with customer sponsorship,
By orchestrating and overseeing the realization of these initiatives and of their benefits and value.
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Typical Characteristics and Traits
As one of our Enterprise Architects, you know your customer’s business and the industry, and what Microsoft can bring to the table to the benefit of the customer.
You also share a common set of characteristics that drive innovation and value for our customers:
Executive presence and business acumen to win the hearts and minds of IT and business leaders
Ability to generate trust, build alliances across the organization, and orchestrate interdisciplinary teams to the benefit of customers
Situational awareness to adapt and solve challenges from a business and technology perspective
Ability to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic operational delivery
Empathy, curiosity, desire to constantly improve, acquire new skills and drive for results
Qualifications
The broad scope of responsibility of this role requires a solid understanding of both Business and IT strategy, a principled approach to broader architectural challenges and opportunities, and a strong grasp of business, technology and solutions, as well as strong leadership and people skills.
Requirements for this high-visibility, high-impact role include:
Degree (Computer Science, Social Science or Business), and/or equivalent experience
15+ years of professional experience, of which at least 8-10 years related IT consulting and/or Business experience
Broad experience and understanding of the technology industry and some other industries (e.g. banking, retail, public sector), acquired in a consulting role and/or managing technology-enabled business change or related activities
Proven record of delivering business value from IT at an executive level, bringing the benefits of technology to solve business issues while also managing costs, risk and resources
Ability to understand the needs of non-technical customers, to conceptualize, launch and deliver technology-enabled business change projects
Leadership qualities and ability to coordinate physical and virtual resources and initiatives
Executive-level interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills, good listener, ability to provide a trusted voice at the decision-making table and be an advocate of Microsoft’s vision and value proposition
Solid understanding of Microsoft’s offerings and experience with the implementation/adoption of key solutions and services such as Azure, Cloud, Platform & Productivity, Business Analytics, Devices & Mobility
Specialty skills including Enterprise Architecture, IT Portfolio Lifecycle Optimization, Organizational Design and Change Management, IT Governance, etc
Travel is an integral expectation of this position as the needs of our customers and our business demand
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