Overview
As a Microsoft consultant, you will deliver quality engagements with your expertise, either as an advisor, reviewer or resource in high profile projects to ensure customer value. The ideal candidate must have the ability to combine their technical skills, creativity and customer focus in order to deliver great solutions to the customers and ensure they get the best out of our technologies and solutions. Person in this position should be able to focus on the development of customer business agility and business value, and deep experience with technologies.
Qualifications :
Required qualifications for Consultants include:
Highly proficient, customer-facing experience involving project envisioning, planning, design, development, and deployment of complex solutions
7+ years of software development: automation-related experience is valued. Scripting languages such as bash, python, and PowerShell, or compiled languages such as C, C# and Go are most relevant, but others are acceptable.
Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern software & systems architectures, including load-balancing, queueing, caching, distributed systems failure modes generally, microservices, and so on
Associated troubleshooting skills, including the ability to follow RPC call-chains across arbitrary network steps. Consequent understanding of monitoring in distributed systems
Deep understanding of operating system level concepts such as processes, memory allocation, and the network stack; understanding of how applications are affected by the above, and ability to debug same
Experience with working in a team, including coordinating large projects, communicating well, and exercising initiative when presented with problems
Strong understanding of customer and partner business and IT environments, with proven record of delivering successful technical solutions
Practical experience running large scale online systems is always an advantage
Demonstrated ability to focus on the development of customer business agility and business value, while simultaneously providing deep experience with specific technologies
Strong communication, consulting, analytical and problem-solving skills
Growth mindset
Flexible work approaches with strong proactivity and inclination to resolving customer situations
Demonstrated skills designing and developing technology in area(s) of specialization to solve business problems and help customers in enhancing existing applications; core skills must include Microsoft technology, with open-source experience helpful
Degree in Computer Science Engineering, MCA or equivalent with work experience; higher relevant education preferred
MCSD/MCSE/MCAD/Azure certification is a plus
Required Skills:
Strong Object-Oriented Programming and Design experience
Understanding of Technical Design Patterns
SQL Programming knowledge
.Net 4.0/Core (ASP.Net, Web API, PowerShell script. MVC, TFS/GitHub)
Azure (Deep technical understanding of PaaS, Good experience in Azure services like Service Fabric, Web Apps, Cosmos DB, Azure Storage, Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions, and API management, SQL. with Azure Application Dev experience)Deep technical and architectural knowledge of at least 3 of the following areas, as well as broad understanding across the Microsoft Development toolset:
Cloud Technologies (preferably Azure Full Stack)
Skills on projects targeting a variety of form factors (e.g. Mobile, IoT)
Development Languages (e.g. C#, JavaScript, Java, Front end skills like React, Angular etc.)
Application Lifecycle Management (e.g. Agile, TFS etc.)
Solution Architecture (e.g. SOA, Enterprise Architecture)
Good to have skills:
Industry vertical knowledge – Retail, Banking and Finance, Telecom etc.
Middleware technologies used for integrations
Knowledge of Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes etc.
Responsibilities :
Candidates must understand customer and partner business and IT environment and have demonstrated skills designing and developing technology in area(s) of specialization to solve business problems.
Candidates must have experience developing software for the Microsoft platform using programming languages and development platforms including C# or any modern programming language and Microsoft SQL Server.
Participates in the delivery of complex solution as technical individual contributor or as a team member under coaching/guidance of senior team members.
Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle methodology, technical design, development and implementation decisions on the use of technology in area(s) of specialization.
Contribution to overall Release and Sprint planning
Overall Application Design (HLD)
Validate planned velocity of the feature teams
Provide user story estimates in refinements to deliver quality and on time delivery
Drive team to Code Metrics like Style Cop, FXCop, CC, Class Coupling are met as defined by the project
Drive team to ensure code complies with security and performance standards
Track and monitor the feature team’s delivery progress
Track team sprint bug's RCA for quality improvement in subsequent sprints and take action
Track quality reports like Build and Sonarqube
Conduct User story ready meeting DoD once Sprint ends
Lead Sprint planning and task distribution
Track creation of LLD for relevant user story
Review LLD for relevant user story
Ensure Unit Test, Integration test Automation as per the acceptance and P1, P2 test cases
Ensure UI Automation for validation scenarios and 80% P1, P2
Validate Performance Test Scenarios and Execution
Validate Environment Readiness
Ensure Functionality is verified to be working in the DEV Integration environment against the test cases identified by the test team.
Ensure UI verification and validation
Ability to understand and analyze issues and use judgment to make decisions.
Strong problem solving & troubleshooting skills
Strong communication and leadership skills
Responsible for self-development according to professional development plan
