Ideally you will come from a software engineering or similar technical background and have pre sales experience across Azure, Open Source and other cloud technologies. A good understanding of the Digital Native and AI landscape is critical to the success of this role.
Professional:
Minimum of 5 years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications.
Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives in large or highly strategic accounts.
Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies.
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects.
Technical:
Extensive technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, aplication development, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management.
Experience in optimizing cloud resources for cost, performance, and scalability, especially for compute-intensive AI workloads.
Expertise in building and deploying scalable, high-availability serverless applications in Azure or other cloud providers.
Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments (including migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud).
Extensive technical experience with cloud-native app hosting through software design, development, deployment, and app refactoring/migrations.
Familiarity with scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies Azure functions and logic apps, container orchestration Kubernetes.
Proficiency with software development practices and DevOps using CI/CD tool chains (i.e., Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub).
Knowledge of cloud development platforms preferred.
Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience in a related field.
Certifications are a plus:
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
Certifications in Azure Development, Azure AI Engineer Associate, Azure Data Engineer Associate, and/or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.
Experience:
Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or services company such as Amazon, VMware, Google, IBM, Oracle Preferred.
Responsibilities
The Digital Native business operates like a startup within an enterprise. The ideal candidate will thrive in an ambiguous environment, network to leverage the team around them and bring a get it done attitude for our customers.
Lead technical discussions with customers using consultative sales methodology, demos, and programs to understand needs and showcase Microsoft solutions.
Develop technical strategy by mapping customer vision, resolving concerns, and building a strong business case for investment.
Drive technical assessments to create migration plans aligned with customer goals.
Design solutions using technical knowledge and methodology, ensuring agreement from decision-makers.
Identify new opportunities to support customer objectives.
Act as a trusted advisor, offering solutions to technical leaders and sharing insights with Engineering.
Maintain expertise in Azure, Application Development, and AI technologies.
Maintain knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community.
Scale through partners, facilitating resources and processes.
Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners, and external communities, building and growing developer communities through activities such as workshops.