The Partner Technical Architect (PTA) will drive practice based partner technical capabilities in collaboration with the PTS. This is a partner facing role that is accountable for developing and support practices in both existing and newly recruited partners. Key responsibilities include:

• Assess the partner technical capabilities and develop a custom learning path based on the identified gaps. Plan testing environments and review existing operational and delivery technical model.
• Deliver deep level technical workshops, executing on the defined learning path and developing technical aspects of key scenarios defined in the technology roadmap. Enable and teach the partner in performing and delivering Architecture Design Session (ADS). Provide guidance for completing competency/qualifications technical requirements.
• Enable the partner in identifying technology opportunities that enable and/or support the creation of differentiated offers in the market. Enable the partner in creating/adapting SOW for the offers, defining the delivery/operational models and including adoption services and activities.
• Enable the partner to be successful during pre-sales activities which includes delivery of Proof Of Concepts (POC), Pilots, Prototypes and technical blockers and objections removal.
• Enable the partner to discover ways to automating solution to reduce costs and create repeatability, while documenting processes for knowledge retention and IP.

Who we’re looking for…

Experiences Required: Education, Key Experiences, Skills and Knowledge:

• Deep undertstanding of cloud computing, business drivers, and emerging computing trends and their impact on customer opportunities.
• Ability to create deep technical relationships and assess level of the partner technical roles, designing a time effective learning path and evaluate the progress toward the defined milestones.
• Deep technical skill and significant experience in the relevant practice area and technology focus.
• Understand how to leverage technology solutions for supporting business goals, providing guidance on supported and not supported technical scenarios. Capability to design and implement practice based architectures or equivalent competitive experience.
• 3+ years of related experience in technology solutons/practice development, Cloud / Infrastructure technologies. Knowledge of MS platform is a must(such as Microsoft 365 (with Microsoft desktop deployment), Office 365 (cloud only, onprem and hybrid with Exchange Server, Skype for Busienss Server, Sharepoint server), Microsoft Azure and etc.), project management, technical Sales and technical account management.
• Large scale of office 365 & Microsoft desktop deployment experience is preferred.
• Strong executive presence including communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort to large and small audiences. 
• Problem solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, conflict resolution, and follow through with partners.
• Deep technical experience in one or more of the following areas: Software design or development, Application Design, Systems Operations / Management, Database architecture, Virtualization, IP Networking, Storage, IT Security, Linux
• Working knowledge with AGILE development, SCRUM and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with one or more of the following programming languages: .NET, C++, Java, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, Pig/Hive
• Technical BS degree, Computer Science background required.