Microsoft Looking for Technology Consultant M365 at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Full Time

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

Industry Solutions (IS) is a global organization of over 13,000 strategic sellers, industry experts, elite engineers, and world-class architects, consultants, and delivery experts who work together to bring Microsoft’s mission of empowerment – and cutting-edge technology – to life for the world’s most influential customers. We are on the front lines of innovation, working side-by-side with customers to drive value across the entirety of their digital transformation journey.   

Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves. Join us and help create life-changing innovations that impact billions around the world! 

We are hiring across Hyderabad, Noida and Bangalore.

The Modern Work Domain within Industry Solutions helps customers maximize their investment in Microsoft 365 solutions and helps customers in providing productivity solutions on full portfolio of M365 products (Teams, SharePoint, Exchange, Yammer) to help them get work done in a faster, better and predictable way through accelerated implementation and adoption. The Modern Work Practice team is part of Industry Solutions, a global organization of exceptional people who lead and serve our customers and partners as they realize their full potential through software and services.

Working at Microsoft

We are part of a diverse and multi-cultural team of customer focused and results-driven influencers. With a growth mindset and collaboration at its core, the Industry Solutions Delivery Domain leverages the unique talents and skills of all individuals to drive success and deliver results.

This is your opportunity to work and learn with the foremost Microsoft Office 365 experts on a variety of projects, technologies, and geographies. At Microsoft you will be provided with a range of opportunities for professional and personal development across all our technologies and business. As a member of the Microsoft’s Modern Work Domain, you will work on the largest and most complex customer projects across locations that will make a real difference in millions of people’s lives

Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. Our mission statement is a commitment to our customers. We deliver on that commitment by striving to create technology that is accessible to everyone. This is what inspires us, drives our work and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. At Microsoft, we also work to empower our employees, so that they can achieve more. Our leadership is focused on bringing out the best in our people, supporting their goals, and allowing them to find deep meaning in their work.

 

Growth mind-set:  At Microsoft, we’re insatiably curious and continuously learning. We lean into uncertainty, take risks and learn fast from our mistakes. We build on each other’s ideas because we are better together.

Customer obsessed: We are passionate about helping our customers achieve more. We listen and learn about our customers with a beginner’s mind; bringing solutions that meet their needs and innovation to surprise and delight them.

Diversity and inclusion:  We don’t just value differences, we seek them out and invite them in. Microsoft is a place where employees can be who they are.  As a result, we have better ideas, better products and our customers are better served.

One Microsoft: We are a family of individuals united by one mission. We work together, build on each other’s ideas and collaborate across boundaries to bring the best of Microsoft to our customers as one.

Making a difference: We stand in awe of what human’s dare to achieve and we are motivated every day to empower billions of people to achieve more through our technology and innovation. Our employees harness the power to build on the company’s far-reaching momentum and are driven to change the world.

We are committed to reinvent business processes and productivity, build the intelligent cloud platform and create more personal computing. These three goals are interconnected; allowing us to attract, develop and retain the best talent to be more innovative in the products and services we develop, in the way we solve problems, and in the way, we serve the needs of an increasingly global and diverse customer and partner base.

Responsibilities

Technical Delivery

Participates and leads gathering of customer requirements and constraints.

Participates in project planning and contributes to risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.

Communicates the business value of planned technology uses and deployments.

Contributes to, and delivers against, a Work Breakdown Structure.

 

 

Responsibilities 

Pre-Sales Support 

• Collaborates with internal stakeholders (e.g., Solution Architect, Account Delivery Executive, Pursuit Lead, Sales Solution Specialist) in the pre-sale process by understanding business requirements and providing industry and technical input and/or solution offerings to help shape the deal. Supports drafting proposals and/or statement of work (SOW). 
• Provides input on staffing and skill requirements for delivery to Resource Deployment, Technical Delivery Managers (TDMs), and/or Project Managers. 

 

Technical Delivery 

• Lead meetings with customers/partners to understand business needs. Uses business, industry and technology strategies to map customer/partner requirements to the adoption and optimization of Microsoft technology solutions.
• Engage others appropriately to understand and define customer requirements. 
• Participates in project planning and develops project documents by identifying the risks and dependencies. Communicates the business value of planned solutions to customers/ partners. Identifies technical and business risks in programs and proposes mitigations. Assists project managers/architects in preparing for steering committee (e.g., developing artifacts). Manages their schedule and communicates to project leads. Generates and delivers Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). 
• Implement solutions and may provide oversight and leadership on workstreams across domains while adhering to Microsoft Services processes. Aligns solutions with the intent of architecture. 
• Manages escalations, analyzes situations, and coordinates appropriate resources to resolve issues by following delivery practices, considering cost implications, and engaging in conversations with internal and external stakeholders (e.g., Customer Service and Support, Project Manager, Solution Architect, Product Group) as needed. 
• Proactively manages executive-level customer/partner/stakeholder relationships to identify and contribute to the drivers of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, determine the root cause, and establish recovery actions to improve experience. Works with account team to ensure One Microsoft approach. Shares lessons learned with workgroup and consultant community.   

 

 Intellectual Property Management 

• Acts as an ambassador in consumption of intellectual property (IP) by leveraging and/or modifying existing IP or creating repeatable content where applicable. Provides feedback on Managed IP for continuous improvement, reports IP gaps, reviews IP to be considered for harvesting and curation and ensures it is logged for consumption. Improves Managed Standard Offerings (MSO) quality and collaborates with portfolio and solution teams of the domain by providing feedback. 

 

Business Development 

• Identifies opportunities to expand or accelerate the adoption and consumption of the cloud and Microsoft technologies. As appropriate, facilitates other team members to scale the business with existing customers by articulating value propositions of strategic Microsoft products and services and developing new offerings for the domain. Drives innovation and digital transformation. Ensures the use of existing intellectual property (IP). 

 

Readiness 

• Learns new technologies or services based on business demands and industry trends. Obtains relevant accreditations and certification(s) as advised by domain leadership team. Identifies certifications and readiness plans in partnership with domain Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Leads or participates in relevant technical communities, and conducts training sessions to evangelize technology and/or offerings based on availability. Mentors team members and acts as a technical advisor for stakeholders by providing thought leadership, articulation of solutions value, and outcomes of business strategies.   

 

Operational Excellence 

• Completes operational tasks and readiness and ensures timeliness and accuracy. Follows Microsoft policies, compliance, and procedures (e.g., Enterprise Services Authorization Policy, Standards of Business Conduct, labor logging, expenses, travel guidelines). Leads as example and guides team members on operational tasks, readiness, and compliance. 

 

Qualifications

Areas of Expertise:

• 5+ years of experience in IT consulting, infrastructure deployment 
• 4+ years of in-depth experience in M365, Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Modern Device Management workloads including Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)
• Good knowledge of PowerShell scripting
• Deep knowledge and Certification to build Enterprise scale end-to-end solutions on Microsoft 365 (E5) security components such as Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), Azure Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention, Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection, advanced e-discovery etc., 
• Deep knowledge to build Enterprise scale end-to-end solutions for data classification, data protection and compliance.
• Office 365 Security and compliance Auditing and alerting
• Identity protection and security tools in Azure Active directory.
• Azure Active Directory conditional access with office 365 and third-party applications
• Active Directory Federation Services
• Office 365 Identity synchronization – planning, design, and deployment of AAD connect service for Office 365 identity management.     
• Planning and deployment of Exchange Hybrid with Office 365. Working experience on Exchange online migrations.
• Office 365 tenant planning and onboarding, tenant assessment
• Office 365 Tenant to Tenant Migration Structure Planning
• Notes to Exchange On-Prem Migration Planning, Configuration and Migration using Binary Tree (Nice to have)
• Design and deployment of Exchange 2016 / 2019 on premise environment. Migration from old Exchange version to latest Exchange environment.
• Notes to Exchange On-Prem Migration Planning, Configuration and Migration using Binary Tree (Nice to have)
• Hands-on Experience in Planning, Design & Deployment of Exchange 2016 / 2019, Exchange Online and Office 365 onboarding
• Cross Forest Mailbox Migration
• Windows PowerShell for automation of day to day administrative and Office 365 configuration tasks
• Basic understanding on Networking, proxy, firewall, bandwidth planning for Office 365 deployment. Office 365 tenant planning and onboarding, tenant assessment
• SharePoint Online and OneDrive configuration
• MS Teams deployment
• SharePoint Online and OneDrive configuration
• Experience with related Office 365 technologies like Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams or SharePoint is a plus, but not mandatory.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or related field
• Must have a degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent work experience with over 5+ years of relevant work experience,
• Experience working in a Services organization in a consulting capacity is strongly preferred.  Experience working on multi-phase global implementations is preferred.
• Having Microsoft Certifications on M365 such as MD-100, MD-101, MS-100, MS-101, MS-500, MS-700 is a plus

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.