Partner Technical Advisor - Identity Management And

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.
With over 15,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience and Success (CEnS) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of the Microsoft end-to-end customer experience.
This newly expanded organization reflects the Microsoft ambition to be known as a customer experience company, ensuring our Microsoft mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is enabled by delighting customers and consistently exceeding their expectations in every interaction through a connected customer experience.
Microsoft has a tremendous opportunity to exceed customer expectations and drive greater customer loyalty and trust, which leads to greater satisfaction, retention, and growth.
The CEnS organization is looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success to help us build a future where customers come to us, not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, and also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience that is rooted in our commitment to delivering on customer outcomes.
**Responsibilities**:
Responsibilities

Readiness Development
- Supports delivery partners and/or teams, enhances support readiness, and ensures timely resolution by developing others.
Develops training plans for supplier engineers based on skills gap analysis and product needs.
Reviews and provides gap analysis to develop readiness plans for delivery partner teams and/or internal teams based on skills gap analysis, product needs, etc.
Contributes to the creation and implementation of readiness plans and content.
Assists in the implementation of end-to-end readiness programs (e.g., mentoring, knowledge sharing or technical document creation, brown bag sessions, blogs, quality assurance checks) for both internal and external teams.
Case Management (Delivery Excellence)Managing Collaborative Activities
- Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups as needed to resolve customer issues.
Helps drive top priorities by working with managers, engineers, Serviceability team, and other stakeholders.
Engages and collaborates with other Microsoft groups, including escalation teams and the development team, in gaining resolution for critical, complex issues.
Teaches Support Engineers to collaborate with internal teams and build communities to resolve customer and partner issues to develop unique solutions.
Manages the swarming process to ensure the right individuals and resources are in place to resolve issues in a timely fashion.
Supportability Activities
- Contributes to customer self help and volume deflection initiatives.
Identifies technical deficiencies in services or processes to help improve the quality of the services.
Helps define and evangelize operational standards, processes, and practices to vendor teams.
Understands how customers are using a given product or service and the challenges that they might face.
Manages bug recognition within team and communicates need to higher levels of team.
Drives awareness and feedback on opportunities for training, content, tools, and processes.
Provides input on top pain areas by contributing and producing troubleshooting guides/readiness content to help with volume deflection.
Process Improvement
- Collaborates with internal teams, and sometimes external teams, for product and process feedback.
Partners with manager and Supply Delivery Manager for continuous improvement planning.
Serves as an early warning system and notifies appropriate impacted audiences regarding flaws in processes.
Evangelizes processes and process improvements.
**Qualifications**:
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- 2+ years in system development, network operations, software support, IT, consulting or technical troubleshooting experience,and experience working on Technical expertise in Identity Management / Sync and related technologies OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology (IT), Computer Science, Business Administration, Electrical Engineering, or Business Leadership.
OR
- 2+ years of experience in a customer facing or customer support role with troubleshooting and problem-solving experience in a team environment
- Proficiency in the English language, written and spoken (including technical writing)

Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years in system development, network operations, software support, IT, consulting or technical troubleshooting experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology (IT), Computer Science, Business A