Partner Technical Advisor

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 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 are powered by Microsoft’s AI technology to help consumers, businesses, partners, and more, resolve their issues quickly and securely, helping prevent future problems from occurring and achieving more from their Microsoft investment.

Supports delivery partners and/or teams, enhances support readiness, and ensures timely resolution by developing others. Performs thorough case reviews and customer wellness checks; ensures progression of cases to help solve increasingly complex technical issues. Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups as needed to resolve customer issues. Contributes to Partner Technical Advisor (PTA) advocate/agent and engineer communities through knowledge sharing. Collaborates with internal teams, and sometimes external teams, for product and process feedback.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 100% 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

• Case Management (Delivery Excellence)
  
  

Conducts in-depth case reviews and wellness checks to ensure case progression and resolution.

Acts as an escalation point and unblocks service delivery challenges.

Provides process and technical feedback to improve case handling.

Leads case triage meetings to share knowledge and optimize support.

• Managing Collaboration Activities
  
  

Facilitates cross-team collaboration to resolve complex technical issues.

Manages the swarming process to bring the right resources together quickly.

Coaches engineers on internal collaboration and community-building.

Works with stakeholders to drive top priority issue resolution.

• Process Improvement
  
  

Gathers and shares feedback to enhance support processes and tools.

Partners with managers and SDMs to plan and implement continuous improvements.

Identifies process flaws early and advocates for necessary changes.

Updates knowledge bases and evangelizes process best practices.

• Readiness Development
  
  

Assesses skill gaps and designs training plans for delivery partners and internal teams.

Supports readiness initiatives including mentoring, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Collaborates with multiple stakeholders to implement readiness programs.

• Supportability Activities
  
  

Shares knowledge in internal communities and responds to engineering queries.

Engages in reactive/proactive collaboration via swarming and issue management.

Helps build communities across support roles to drive operational excellence.

Drives quality and efficiency improvements in partnership with delivery leaders.

Qualifications

Required 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 Administration, Electrical Engineering, or Business Leadership
• OR equivalent experience
  
  

Language Qualification

English Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking.

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical experience and knowledge working in Azure technical support or equivalent technology.
• Technical skills and hands on experience in 2 or more of the following areas: Entra ID, Azure Active Directory, ADFS, SSO configuration, Authentication Protocols, Azure Identity protection, Identity Management, Conditional Access Policies, Azure MFA.
  
  

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. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.