Microsoft Senior Technology Specialist Major Growth - Databases 

Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam 

707589136

AI to address challenges and enhance achievements.You will

and use our technology.engagements for sales specialists to pursue.and develop your deep technicalexpertise

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

• OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience

• OR equivalent experience

• years experiencewith cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management

• Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture)

• Proactively own technical discussions with customersleveragingprocesses and tools, demos, and programs using consultative salesmethodologyand technicalexpertiseto influence the customer vision;establish

• Proactively build technical strategy: map the agreed customer vision into a strategy, resolve concerns, preventing and removing technical blockersandvalidatinga strong business case for investment and translated technology complexity into business impact.Work with the customer, account team, and partners to orchestrate a roadmap for implementation guiding the customer to choose the best MicrosoftIntelligent Data and Analyticsplatformand win the AI Design,inclusive ofMicrosoft AI, Application services,andDatabases.

• Design the solution using your technical knowledge, architectural approach, consultancy skills and ourmethodologyto win a customer’s technical decision and meet the customer’s needs; drive POCs/Pilots to create momentum for MVPs, infusing key AI technologies whereappropriateand being technically proficient to do POC with hands-on-skills.

• Proactively enable cross collaboration across teamsto drive AI Design Wins and support the customer AI transformation inclusive of AI Applications and data foundation. Support the creation of new pipeline in collaboration with the Specialist and account team byidentifynew opportunities within customerengagement andhandoff to the Solution Specialist for pursuit.

• Be the Trusted advisor and use proactive effort to find and understand customers’ pain points and work with partners to design and offer solutions (with business case) to technical leaders by being a Microsoft Intelligent Data and Analytics platform evangelist inclusive of new Data and Analytics projects, modernizing legacy Data Warehouse to the cloud, new Modern Data Warehousing deployments, real-time analytics, and end to end Data, Analytics and AI solutions.

• the Voice of Customerto share insights and best practices with Engineering, to remove key blockers and drive product improvements.

• Maintain and grow expertise in Database scenarios including Cosmos DB, SQL DB, PostgreSQLand inAnalytics, Data warehousing, Data Engineering, Data Scienceincluding Intelligent Data and Analytics Platform (Azure SQL DW, Lakehouse architecture, Fabric, Azure Databricks, Power BI), and