Technical Support Advisory

Job Description

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.Technical Advisors are responsible for ensuring the development of Support Engineers (SE) technical capabilities. The TA is an expert at coaching and mentoring on case management standards which enable engineers to improve throughput and handle ever-more complex cases. TAs deliver unique value by utilizing their technical knowledge to ensure ramp-up and readiness of the Support Engineering staff to assist customers with issues while maintaining a high-quality bar.An Engineer TA is a service delivery focused subject matter expert. You will own incident metrics such as Speed of Resolution, Solution, etc. as well as quality of the support experience. The primary responsibility is to the engineers in a regional team, focusing on the higher volume services and engaging through technical mentorship, readiness. Your primary activities are targeted towards support incidents and individual mentoring to unblock customer technical issues directly with support engineers. You will also manage collaboration across teams and escalations.A Service TA is focused on the success of one or more services and of the overall pod or team. You will own service metrics such as Speed of Resolution, Solution, etc. and deflection rates. Responsibility is spread across various stakeholders like team managers, Engineer TAs, Supportability PMs and PG. Your primary activities are targeted towards supportability (of the product or service) and overall pod, team effectiveness, in partnership with Serviceability. Primary focus is making sure that service delivery has tools, processes, and documentation to resolve incidents.TA Responsibilities:Identify and analyze skill-gaps in team or Pod; contribute to the creation of readiness plans and content. Own Case management duties (technical review, triage, incoming inspection for SIE (Service Interruption Event), case progression, impact to customer wellness, reduced time to. measures). Enable swarming and collaboration activities, including advanced troubleshooting. Approve and review escalations (regardless of destination - to Escalation Engineer or Engineering Group). Improve existing and develop new troubleshooting workflows and troubleshooting guides (TSG). Ensure landing of new feature onboarding. Own cases, as business demands. Provide ramp activities for junior. engineers, knowledge sharing, technical coaching and mentoring. Drive technical collaboration and engagement outside of CSS (Product Engineering teams, Services, Support, Regions). Lead or participate in building communities with peer delivery roles; may be workload or specialty specificOptional Responsibilities. Technical interviews for new hires. Assist acting team manager or POD lead. Interface with CSAM to maintain good customer relations (Premier-focused LOBs). Process improvement feedback to appropriate DP and MSFT stakeholders. PG Collaboration including triages. Approval of escalations to product group (known as ICMs, Bugs or similar varies by SBU). Direct customer contact (to support frontline engineers, periodic case ownership to maintain technical expertise). Influence behaviors to derive desired outcomes replaced Provide Metrics Oversight. Lead or participate in building communities with peer delivery roles (SEE, EE, EEE, TA); may be workload or specialty specific. Release management and deployment (ensure it happens, do not own directly). Trends, forecast for LOB. Responsible for oversight of Speak Up! items (Consumer).Optional Responsibilities for an Engineer TA:Readiness content - identify need for and, or create content. Assist, acting team Manager, POD lead. Interface w, TAM to maintain good customer relations (Premier-focused LOBs). Direct customer contact (to support frontline engineers, periodic case ownership to maintain technical expertise). Influence behaviors to derive desired outcomes replaced Provide Metrics.Oversight:Lead or participate in building communities with peer delivery roles (SEE, EE, EEE, TA); may be workload or specialty specific.Optional Responsibilities for a Service TA:Manage collaboration activities (reactive, proactive, cross-team for complex cases, overall process). Direct customer contact (to support frontline engineers, periodic case ownership to maintain technical expertise). Lead or participate in building communities with peer delivery roles (SEE, EE, EEE, TA); may be workload or specialty specific. Trends, forecast for business., Language Qualification: English Language; fluent in reading, writing and speaking.Required Qualifications:2+ years of experience in ERP systems like Dynamics, SAP, PeopleSoft, NetSuite ERP, Oracle ERP Cloud, Epicor, and, or related. 2+ years of experience in ERP working in one or more of the following Technology areas:o Environment deployments and monitoring in Azure or other Cloud management Systems. o Understanding of SysInternals tools Process Monitor, Process Explorer. o Programming skills are useful, preferably in C++ or C# development - basic knowledge (ability to read code and write simple programs). o Understanding of IIS.o Troubleshooting website issues, HTTP responses. o Network debugging skills (Fiddler, Network Monitor , Wireshark , Message Analyzer). o Understanding of data management and migration concepts. o Strong knowledge of operating systems (Windows and, or Linux). o Good knowledge of Microsoft SQL and Active Directory. o Working experience of Visual Studio, SharePoint or Exchange.Experience in one or more of these areas desirable:2+ years in a customer facing service role in any capacity. Strong customer service, accurate and logical problem solving. Experience in creating technical documentation and sharing knowledge with others through training delivery and mentoring. Excellent Communication Skills - verbal, listening, and written (including technical writing). Interpersonal and relationship skills proven through work experience. Passion for lifelong learning and personal and professional development. Exposure and experience working with customers on the Cloud, e.g. Microsoft Cloud products or other Cloud Management System. Current Microsoft IT Certification preferred (Ex. MCSE, MCSA, MCSD, MCTS). Degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems or Computer Engineering.Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and / or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire / transfer and every two years thereafter.Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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