Technical Support Advisory

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of Microsoft’s end-to-end customer experience. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers come to us not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, but also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience.

Within CE&S, the Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization builds trust and confidence for every person and organization through delivering a seamless support experience. In CSS, we help customers and partners resolve their issues quickly, prevent future problems from occurring, and demonstrate new ways to achieve more from their Microsoft investment.

Applications & infrastructure - the largest and fastest growing group in CSS - provides Microsoft’s commercial customers with timely technical expertise to address their business-critical challenges and partners with them to advance global, cross-cloud solutions that enable their people and empower the world.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

**Responsibilities**:
Core (all people in this role perform these duties; depending on tenure some duties may be mínimal
- Provide technical and SME coaching for Delivery Partner (DP) Engineers, Advocates
- Partner with the Support Delivery Manager (SDM) and CSS Training teams to address any readiness gaps, ensuring findings and remediations shared across Delivery Partners and LOBs, as applicable.
- Own case management duties (incoming inspection, escalations, tech reviews, triage, wellness, reduced time to... measures)
- Provide Readiness Content (identify need for and create content; contribute to readiness efforts where you are the Subject Matter Expert (SME))
- Manage collaboration activities (reactive, proactive, cross-team for complex cases, overall process)
- Contribute to Supportability activities (case analysis and case pattern recognition, deflection initiatives, and other Supportability improvements working with Stakeholders like Supportability Program Managers)
- Release Management and Deployment for Delivery Partners (ensure it happens, do not own directly)
- As a technical, program SME, collaborate with all stakeholders to identify and recommend technical, program process and tool opportunities, leading with innovation within their scope and prioritizing needs when beyond.
- Provide Frontline Technical Oversight to Delivery Partners

Optional (people in this role may perform these duties, can vary by line of business)
- Provide Frontline Operations Metrics Oversight
- Participate in DP ROB (WBR, QBR, MBR)
- Participate in Product Group Triages (coordinated with Eng. and Service TAs)
- Approval of escalations to product group on behalf of DP (known as ICMs, Bugs or similar - varies by SBU) Drive Down Speed or Time to Competency for DP Resources
- Participate in Technical and SME Interviews for New PTA Hires
- Direct Customer Contact (to support frontline engineers, periodic case ownership to maintain technical expertise)
- Run Non-Top Box and Deviation Analysis (including Approval)
- Lead or participate in building communities with peer delivery roles (SEE, EE, EEE, TA); may be workload or specialty specific.

**Qualifications**:
Required

4+ 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 Administration, Electrical Engineering, or Business Leadership AND 5+ years in system development, network operations, software support, IT, consulting or technical troubleshooting experience.
- 4+ years prior product, customer support and/or technical support experience.
- Strong knowledge and experience in.Net Framework, ASP.NET, VB.NET.
- Cloud Technologies: Microsoft Azure, Amazon web services, iCloud
- Languages and Compilers: C, C++, C#, VB.NET, JAVA, HTML5
- Developer Tools such as Visual Studio, Unity, Eclipse
- Basic understanding of Web servers like IIS, wr.t configuration, deployment, etc. is a definite plus.
- Good understanding of the concepts of Operating Systems and networking is required
- MCP Certified in at least one of the Microsoft Programming Technologies is an added advantage

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

Experience in one or more of these areas desirable
- Three or more years in software development, consulting or support with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Client, Server and Development products and tech