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With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers’ expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft’s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.

Within CSS, our Digital Transformation Platform (DTP) group delivers world-class support for our global customers on their digital transformation journey. We provide valuable support solutions on a wide range of technologies, including Data analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT), Business Intelligence and Power BI, SQL, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform, that elevate our customers’ trust in Microsoft and improve their business performance.

As an Individual Contributor in the CSS Supportability organization, your mission is to improve the customer and engineer experience by identifying, mitigating, and preventing support issues at scale. You will use a data-driven approach to analyze customer pain points, influence product improvements, and drive operational excellence through automation, documentation, and AI-powered solutions.

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.

Response and Resolution:

• Reviews complex issues (e.g., multiple components of a product) and contacts customers to understand issue. Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue. Utilizes troubleshooting tools (e.g., event logs, performance traces) to help resolve customer issues.
• Acts as an advisor to the customer and handles complex, repeatable, or escalated cases that may become politically charged. Creates technical articles or knowledge base (e.g., edits or creates news/ knowledge-base articles) that is internal or customer facing for better customer understand. Provides best practices and education to ensure customer understands the problem in order to proactively resolve potential issues in the future.
• Performs complex product troubleshooting and remediation when needed. Works alongside the development teams to drive incident resolution for configuration, code, or other service deficiencies impacting customers. Analyzes patterns of problems and identifies workflows to optimize support engineering delivery for a team or region level.
• Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups including support engineering groups, product groups, services team, and account team as needed to resolve complex customer issues.

Readiness:

• Implements end-to-end readiness programs (e.g., mentoring, leading triages, content creation, brown bag sessions, blogs, quality assurance checks, writes technical articles) and contributes to the content and readiness strategy. Mentors Technical Support Engineers or members from other teams outside of Customer Service and Support (CSS). Develops expert level competence on support topics.

Product/Process Improvement:

• Provides feedback to more senior engineers or serviceability team on functionality of products based on engagements with customers. • Provides feedback to the product group for product improvement. Leverages overall product knowledge to determine if and when features require enhancements.
• Engages with engineering team to investigate product bugs, provides business impact, and collaborates with appropriate stakeholders and senior team members on fixes.
• Contributes to and/or develops automation techniques and diagnostic tools to improve cross-group effectiveness.
• Translates feedback and creates processes and workflows for case resolution.
• Participates in case triage meetings and/or case discussions to share knowledge with other engineers and contribute to more rapid customer solutions. Utilizes learnings from triage meetings to identify and communicate readiness needs to manager or readiness team.

Business Integration:

• Implements strategic business decisions with customers, partners, and teams to increase market share. Influences peers to implement strategy.

Other:

• Embody our culture and values

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience

o OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 3+ years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience.

• 3+ years of experience in a customer facing or support role in any of the following: technical escalation support, product support, developer support, IT DevOps, Service Engineering, Site Reliability, System Development
• Experience with Power BI or Data Fabric platforms including DevOps and AI skills
• Ability to read, write and debug scripts related to database management systems
• Proficiency with Azure Infrastructure, on-prem and SaaS experience

Other Qualifications:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Tabular and multidimensional models, enabling OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) and data mining and paginated reports.
• Microsoft SQL Server Suite (SQL server Analytical Services, and SQL Server Reporting services.
• Familiarity with Azure Analysis Services, Report designer, Report Manager, Power BI desktop, Power BI service, Power BI report builder, and Power BI Report Server.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, API knowledge and Fabric Shell proficiency

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.

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