Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 5+ years’ experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or Business Applications consulting OR equivalent experience.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications:
- Business Value: The ability to convey the business need and value of proposed solutions, plans, and risks to stakeholders and decision makers. This includes the ability to persuade and inform based on facts and alignment with goals and strategy.
- Trusted Advisership : The ability to build trusted advisor status and deep relationships across stakeholders (e.g., technical decision makers, business decision makers) through an understanding of customer needs and technologies.
- Situational fluency: Using self-awareness as a mechanism to interpret verbal and non-verbal cues to increase your ability to "read the room."
- Insightful listening: asking insightful questions to understand the customer needs, issues, business environment and drivers, and going beyond what customer has said.
- Breadth of technical experience and knowledge in foundational security, foundational AI, architecture design , with depth / Subject Matter Expertise in one or more of the following:
- Deep domain expertise in one of the Azure AI specific areas, such as Cognitive Services, Machine Learning, and Azure OpenAI OR hands-on experience working with the respective products at the expert level.
- AI related Data expertise, such as SQL DB, No-SQL, Delta Lake, Apache Parquet, etc.
- Experience in creating AI solutions Proof of Concepts (PoC), and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) for customers that lead to production deployments.
- Competitive Landscape: Knowledge of key AI platforms such as AWS, GCP etc.
- Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e., Jenkins, Azure Developer Services, GitHub, MLOps)