Role Summary
As the Architect Manager you will provide support for their team in gathering and propagating customer/partner insights to help shape and form both the definition and ongoing execution of the project. Holds teams accountable for leveraging existing architecture approaches to achieve Microsoft's agreed commitments to the customer/partner and developing new solutions to scale across multiple customers/partners and markets. Guides team in defining and documenting the architecture. Collaborates with the other managers to jointly drive project/technical governance of the design, build, and deployment into use of proof of concepts and pilots.
Guides team in working with the business sponsor and customer/partner stakeholders (e.g., Business users, Enterprise Architects, Security Team, Operations Team) to gather and ratify requirements and constraints. Leads team in collaborating to understand the business solution/problem. Creates a culture and clarity around technical insights and escalations, and ensures broad sets of projects move forward. Generates new and/or improvements to existing intellectual property. Provides their team with a holistic perspective of customer/partner challenges, industry trends, and competitor architectures to allow team members to engage with customers/partners, demonstrate Microsoft's value, and develop counter strategy. In addition, this role has people management responsibilities including driving employee growth and development, executing projects, and managing performance