Microsoft Industry Solutions (ISD) is a global organization hosting over 7,000 strategic sellers, industry and security experts, elite engineers, world-class data scientists and architects, consultants, and delivery specialists. Together with our partners, we help Microsoft’s most strategic customers worldwide to address their specific challenges and provide comprehensive and industry-specific solutions that meet their unique needs.

Our organization is at the forefront of innovation, driving value across the entirety of the customers’ digital and AI transformation journey through repeatable and customized cutting-edge solutions powered by Microsoft Cloud and AI.

We take pride in embodying Microsoft's mission of empowerment, promoting a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and fostering a culture of inclusivity where everyone is encouraged to share their unique perspectives and be their authentic selves. By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to life-changing innovations that impact billions of people worldwide.

Furthermore, by joining our team, you will be at the heart of envisioning, creating, and crafting solutions on Microsoft technologies, the most anticipated Microsoft app to hit the market of new era - and the platform and ecosystem we are building it on for customer.

We are looking for a technical consultant specialist who is passionate about maintaining high quality consistently from pre-sales to delivery, proposing technical solutions to deliver business outcomes for our customers, and leading the development and release of IT products.

This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, honing your industry and cloud expertise as well as deepening your contractual and commercial acumen. This role is flexible in that you can work up to approx. 60% from home although depending on each project.

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

Leading solution proposals to customers

• Under the lead of Solution Architect role, you have following roles in proposal activities:

• Understand the outcomes expected by your stakeholders (e.g., enterprise architects, security teams, development teams, operations teams, etc.) and design and propose to customers solutions and architectures that leverage Microsoft cloud services to achieve them. You also recognize risks related to the feasibility of the solution and consider measures to avoid and mitigate them. Design and process the approach to implement the solution.

• Define the outputs and develop an overall project schedule to ensure they can be delivered to the milestones customers expect.

• Identify the scope for which Microsoft is responsible and what customers are responsible for and create a resource plan to understand the skills and man-hours required to execute the Microsoft scope.

Realize values for customers

• After a project starts, you are responsible for creating detailed plan of work based on the overall project execution plan and outputs, in which include a definition of use cases, such as scenarios for data utilization in customer’s business scene.

• You are responsible for the quality of outputs you create.

• You consider countermeasures for technical issues and work together with project members to solve them.

• Work with project managers and solution architects to drive projects forward. Report issues and risks to project managers and solution architects, consider solutions, and implement countermeasures.

• Work with project managers to maintain good communication with client stakeholders and control stakeholder expectations.

• In order to realize customer’s outcome, you will work with other departments within Microsoft involved in the project to obtain the necessary support.

Technical Leader in the Microsoft Team Project Delivery

• Work with project managers and solution architects to drive projects forward. Report issues and risks to project managers and solution architects, consider solutions, and implement countermeasures.

• Understand new technical solutions, disseminate information to consultants in the consulting department, and support the learning of consultants.

• Join the international architect community to gather and share information on best practices and international solutions with the Japan team.

Qualifications

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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .