Microsoft is Hiring an Architect Evangelist in Southern California!
Microsoft Southern California / US Developer and Platform Evangelism
Architect Evangelist
If you are interested please contact Kevin or Scott and/or submit your resume at the link below!
http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=E5D780CA-F353-471B-A9D3-A749761A0947
The Architect Evangelist is a member of the successful Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) team for the Western Region whose overall mission is to secure platform adoption and revenue growth through evangelism, community engagement, relationship marketing and a vibrant solutions ecosystem.
The mission of the Architect Evangelist (AE) is to demonstrate the value of new innovative Microsoft platform technologies by engaging with senior technical decision makers (TDMs) at both customers and partners. The AE is also responsible for general platform evangelism towards the technical audience. In summary, DPE is committed to broad platform adoption and a vibrant ecosystem of customers, partners and developers. Through evangelism, marketing and sales, DPE helps secure the Microsoft platform, now and in the future.
DPE focuses on promotion and adoption of Microsoft platform technologies which leads to current and future revenue. Responsibilities include:
- Driving highly visible design wins in enterprise accounts that lead to compelling evidence and customer references; this includes scaling design wins on the Microsoft platform enabling services partners to architect and win business-critical applications based on the Microsoft platform.
- Driving Broad Customer Connection across the Developer, Architect and IT Pro audiences through an integrated approach to evangelism, communities and intelligent audience marketing
- Marketing of the broad Microsoft platform and developer tools
- Engaging ISVs through depth and breadth technical evangelism activities and providing strategic leadership on ISVs across the subsidiary/district
- Selling developer tools to enterprise accounts, partners and through the channel
- Engaging students and faculty in universities and high schools in order to win mindshare of nascent developers
QUALIFICATIONS: Able to discuss architecture at a conceptual level, with meaningful reference to existing industry-accepted principles such as the Zachmann framework and Services-Oriented Architecture. Well-versed in the way in which these conceptual ideas can be mapped to the problems on encounters in this space, so-called ‘logical architecture’, or architectural patterns, and then how they can be implemented at a physical level using techniques such as design patterns. Excellent knowledge and experience of the competitive platforms, products, companies and philosophies, and ideally will have similar background of Microsoft experience and expertise in large scale design and implementation.
Build and maintain deep understanding of:
- Architectural concepts, issues and trends.
- Microsoft architectural vision and roadmap
- Developer life cycle, Microsoft enterprise developer tools strategy, including VS.NET, .NET frameworks.
- Integration of Microsoft enterprise products, technologies, and solutions into heterogeneous environments.
- Maintain knowledge of competitor’s strategies and technologies and provide feedback to Microsoft Corp. These include J2EE, JEE, IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic, Open Source, Sun and Oracle.
10+ Years of experience with Bachelor’s Degree (B.S./B.A.) required, Masters or Ph.D. preferred. Travel time 30-40% depending on home location.
We have a Platform Strategy Advisor position open in the Seattle area as well!
-Scott
