Job Title: CSA Manager

We are seeking a talented individual to lead a team of deeply technical Apps & Infra/Data and AI Cloud Solution Architects (CSA) to drive growth of Azure Services for a set of Enterprise accounts across different industries.

Responsibilities:

• Hire, on-board, develop, coach, mentor and evaluate CSA. Set a clear bar for excellence.
• Build a high performing team that will be diverse and inclusive.
• Partner with all required Microsoft stakeholders in the subsidiary to drive CSA role clarity, account coverage, project assignment and effective cross-team collaboration.
• Coach and enable your team to accelerate Azure projects to production, including guidance on architectural design, technical recommendations, blocker escalations and technical resource orchestration.
• Ensure your team delivers high quality production deployments that are resilient and successful.
• Drive operational excellence, including timely consumption opportunity management and high-quality reporting and insights.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in technical sales, engineering or consultative delivery required.
• 10+ years of experience in people management required.
• 7+ years of experience driving change management or technical adoption required.
• Able to generate trust, build alliances, and orchestrate interdisciplinary teams to the benefit of customers required.
• Thought leader with executive presence, including the ability to hold CxO and BDM level discussions, exceptional interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills required.
• Proven ability to map the customer's needs to technical solutions required.
• Strong technical understanding of Applications & Infrastructure/Data and AI Enterprise cloud workloads required.
• Ability to stay up to date on new/improved Azure scenarios and workloads required.
• Empathy, curiosity, and desire to constantly improve, acquire new skills and drive for results required.
• Demonstrated Technical leadership through prior technical coaching/leadership roles required.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field preferred.
• Certification in the following technologies preferred: Cloud, mobile, web application development, cloud-native application architecture (i.e. containers, microservices, API management), modern software development techniques like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure developer services, GitHub) and container orchestration systems (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Azure Kubernetes Service, GitHub).
• Certification in one or more of the following technologies preferred: Cloud, mobile, Database, Big Data, BI, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence.