Senior Technology Consultant

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Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Works as a Individual contributor or Leads the engineering team and provides accurate time estimates, sets work priorities, and makes project changes and trade-offs necessary for a successful release.
• Applies technical experience and industry-specific knowledge to develop solutions, based on an analysis of how the proposed approach affects the business objectives of customers and partners.
• Works to accelerate the value proposition of customer or partner engagements by helping to design, develop, and deploy solutions, based on Microsoft technologies and methodologies.
• Applies information-compliance and assurance policies to ensure stakeholder confidence.
• Responsible for the overall efficacy and quality of a project team’s technical delivery within his or her engagements.
• Defines dependencies and risks that go beyond the immediate scope and timeframe for a complex project. Develops contingency plans, risk-mitigation implementation criteria, and alternative strategies to manage short- and long-term risks and manages technical escalations.
• Identifies a best practice approach for a project, across a wide scope of technical issues, and develops or reuses intellectual capital with customers, world-wide, and for programs and initiatives across Microsoft.
• Drives opportunities to expand or accelerate the adoption and consumption of the cloud and Microsoft technologies.  Collaborates, as appropriate, with peers and other teams (e.g., Sales, account-aligned team) to scale the business with existing high-stake or strategic customers, by articulating/developing value propositions of strategic Microsoft products and services.
• Drives innovation and digital transformation. Ensures the use of the existing intellectual property (IP) and improves predictability.
• Defines the technology strategy for large and complex engagements, so that customers or partners realize the full value of investment. Responsible for implementing the technology strategy.
• Drives new ways of thinking, across the division and subsidiary, to improve quality, engineering productivity, and responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities.