Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
OR 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).
6+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
8+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
Responsibilities
Own technical discussions with customers leveraging processes and tools, demos and programs; using consultative and/or Challenger method; establish rules of engagement (e.g., role boundaries, handoff strategies) for extended teams.
Be the Trusted advisor and use proactive effort to find and understand customers’ pain points and design and offer solutions (with business case) to technical leaders.
Drive technical assessments to create a map of the current landscape and to build the technical migration plans, thus building a solid migration business case.
Build technology strategy by mapping the agreed customer business outcomes into a appropriate Azure technology framework, resolving concerns, preventing, and removing technical blockers, and validating a strong business case for investment and translating technology complexity into business impact. Work with the customer, account team, and partners to orchestrate a technology roadmap for implementation.
Be an Azure platform evangelist for App Dev, App Service, GitHub, VS Studio platform scenarios like modernizing and migrating New/Standard Applications and migrating to the cloud.
Design the solution using your technical knowledge, architectural approach, consultancy skills and our methodology to win a customer’s technical decision and meet the customer’s needs. Ensure technical decision makers agree with proposed architecture and on the migration plan. Drive POCs and MVPs.
Be the Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers and drive product improvements.
Scale through partner facilitating and managing partner resources and processes for Pilot/POC/MVP.
Owning milestone level actions and proactively closing and communicating to the Specialist.
Identify new opportunities within customer engagement and hand it off to the Solution Specialist for pursuit.
Maintain and grow expertise in cloud migration, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community.
Additional details
Proven technical pre-sales or technical consulting, or related experience.
Experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
Certification in relevant (Microsoft or industry) technologies or disciplines (e.g., Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).
OR equivalent experience
Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e., Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Visual Studio).
Partners. Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs.
Competitive Landscape. Knowledge of cloud development platforms preferred.
Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or services company such as Amazon, VMware, Google, IBM, Oracle