Head of Azure

Our Why

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

About the role (your why)

As the Head of Azure, you’ll take ownership for driving how we do all things Azure. You’ll be someone who can harness thought leadership and innovation to deliver pragmatic and differentiating practices to our people and solutions for our customers. You’ll work closely with Microsoft and our wider business stakeholders to identify opportunities to grow and differentiate the business as well as mature our offerings. You’ll lead out how we deliver and productise what we do with Azure, enabling our people to grow and deliver more effectively. You’ll provide thought leadership and guidance to our customers in solving their business challenges.

What you’ll bring

• You’ll be able to demonstrate strong leadership experience enabling people and business growth with a positive culture of delivery excellence and connectedness.
• You will be passionate about the future of work, cloud transformation, digital innovation and solving customer challenges.
• You’ll be a cloud native who leads and inspires the benefits of cloud and emerging technology, automation, and enables a DevSecOps culture.
• You’ll be able to demonstrate strong technical leadership experience and skills in the Azure ecosystem having delivered many complex engagements and solutions and have a highly consultative and collaborative approach to customer solutioning and in developing best practices, communities of practice, and enabling people. You make good things happen.
• You’ll have strong familiarity with the public cloud ecosystem and especially with Microsoft and Azure, understanding Cloud Adoption and Well Architected Frameworks, and how best to make the most of partner programs and resources.
• You'll know that successful technology adoption requires people and process enablement.
• Experience in go-to-market activities is a plus.

What you'll do

• Proposition & Practice development: Oversee the development of Azure related propositions, offerings, and practices by working with partners and translating to, enabling, and aligning Datacom teams and vice versa.
• Customer Growth: Support customer growth by being a key interlock for Azure opportunities.
• Project Delivery: Support Datacom delivery teams by overseeing customer delivery quality relating to Azure and be willing to assist where needed.
• Partnerships: Support the development of improved and mutually beneficial Microsoft partnerships including development and execution of related business plans and activities.
• Market Leadership: Provide frequent thought leadership to the market, customers, and Datacom for Azure.

Culture and Benefits

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.

Our digital team is very flexible around how we work and fitting work around non-negotiable other commitments is important to us.

We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.