Technical Support 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.

We are looking for an individual who is a service delivery focused subject matter expert. You will be responsible for frontline engineer or delivery partner support staff technical readiness and process compliance. You will provide in-depth technical & subject matter expertise for one or more products, services, or scenarios all while driving delivery excellence in a collaborative environment to achieve superior customer outcomes. Your primary accountability is to the support staff and managers on the teams you work with. This opportunity enables and promotes career growth as a recognized technical SME.

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.

· Team Readiness & Development: You will ensure timely case resolution by driving engineer readiness based on skills-gap analysis and product needs. Reviews complex issues and contacts customers to understand issue. Acts as an advisor to the customer and handles complex, repeatable, or escalated cases that may become politically charged. Performs complex product troubleshooting and remediation when needed. Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups as needed to resolve complex customer issues.

· Case Management (Delivery Excellence): You will perform case reviews and customer wellness checks; ensure process compliance and progression of cases to help solve increasingly complex technical issues.

· Managing Collaborative Activities: Mentor engineers to be more effective collaborators (cross-team and cross-technologies/lines of business). Participates in case triage meetings and/or case discussions to share knowledge with other engineers and contribute to more rapid customer solutions.

· Supportability Activities: You will contribute to customer self-help and volume deflection initiatives through activities like input on top pain areas and producing troubleshooting guides/readiness content to help with volume deflection. Engages with engineering team to investigate product bugs, provides business impact, and collaborates with appropriate stakeholders and senior team members on fixes.

· Process Improvement: Collaborate with stakeholder teams to provide product and process improvement feedback. Implements end-to-end readiness programs and contributes to the content and readiness strategy. Provides feedback to more senior engineers or serviceability team on functionality of products based on engagements with customers.

Required Qualifications: 
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology (IT), Computer Science, Business Administration, Electrical Engineering, or Business Leadership AND 3+ years system development, network operations, software support, IT, consulting or technical troubleshooting experience 
     o OR 4+ years system development, network operations, software support, IT, consulting or technical troubleshooting experience OR equivalent experience.
     o OR equivalent experience
3+ years of prior product, customer support and/or technical support experience

Language Qualification
English Language: confident in reading, writing and speaking. OR 
Fluent in German, French, Italian and confident in reading, writing and speaking English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding about Azure platforms (Azure Subscription lifecycle and billing and commerce concepts, Sponsorship, Azure Identity). Common subscription provisioning, ownership, transfer, and access issues.
• Support scope boundaries and ownership paths across Microsoft team.
• Experience working in a customer service environment, retail, sales, etc.
• Experience in using innovative technologies such as AI in everyday life.
• Experience working in a dynamic team environment.
• Experience with problem solving and providing solutions to customers.
• Microsoft Technology Certifications, AI-900 and AZ-900

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.

Technical Support Advisory IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Romania is lei 199,400.00 - lei 347,800.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.