Ville : Greater Toronto

Catégorie : See Posting

Industrie : Technology

Employeur : Microsoft

The goal of the Neurodiversity Hiring Program is to build an inclusive hiring approach that recognizes and embraces the strengths of Neurodiverse candidates. Neurodiversity encompasses a wide range of cognitive differences, such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia & dyscalculia.

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Responsibilities

This role is part of a new program at Microsoft Canada to help people who may be newer to the technology field to learn and grow.   During the first 6 months, Microsoft will work to develop employees in this program for customer readiness through onboarding, on the job training, and job shadowing focused on Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI).  After 6 months employees will be placed into customer facing Cloud Solution Architect or similar roles.  Responsibilities include: 

Understanding Customer Technical Environment

• Learns from  colleagues and learns how what customers need
• Shares what customers have problems with and what feedback they have with internal teamsArchitecture Design and Deployment
• Uses existing problem solving strategies to support project solutions.
• Solicits input from others to contribute to proposals for viable solutions based on specific technical products.
• Demonstrates basic technical concepts and proves those design solutions capability through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner.
• Applies methodology and governance, as directed, to minimize business and technical risks and adhere to quality assurance. Demonstrates an understanding of customer/partner conditions of success.

Practice Development

• Supports research projects and contributes to assessing potential intellectual property (IP) needs or process changes.

Trusted Advisor

• Begins building relationships with other technical specialists under the guidance and supervision of others.
• Identifies when customers/Partner is going in the wrong direction and escalates appropriately.                          
• Learns Microsoft solutions and demonstrates an understanding of Microsoft's value to customers/partners. 

Thought Leadership

• Provides input to virtual team members when asked, using a basic knowledge of specific Microsoft architectures and other relevant products.
• Actively looks for relevant communities to learn from.
• Participates in external architect community events and shares learnings with the internal team.           

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have some technical, business and interpersonal skills, but more importantly, will demonstrate a willingness to learn and grow these skills to be able to support customers after 6 months.  Some of these skills would include:

TECHNCAL SKILLS

• Architecture Design
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Microsoft Products
• Open Source Platforms
• Cloud Platform & Security
• Data Architecture
• DevOps 

BUSINESS SKILLS

• English Language Proficiency
• Formal Presentations
• Business Knowledge
• Oral Communication
• Stakeholder Management
• Relationship Management

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

• Creativity
• Decision Making
• Storytelling
• Written Communications
• Problem Solving
• Interpersonal Flexibility

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