Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business 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.
Deep technical understanding of Security and Data Security architectures, solutions including Microsoft M365 Defender, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Microsoft Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, Insider Risk Management, Defender for Cloud Apps (CASB).
Experience explaining and advising on cloud security considerations, capabilities, and tools across software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
People management experience.
Fluent in reading, writing and speaking English.
Additional or preferred qualifications
3+ years people management experience (including leading virtual teams).
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
Scale Customer Engagements: Enable and empower team to influence customer decisions and ensure technical wins by streamlining processes and managing flow of wins, leveraging deep knowledge of processes, tools, and programs: Proactively identifies and leverages knowledge/orchestration of resources and owns resolution of blockers.
Deep technical understanding of Security and Data Security architectures, solutions including Microsoft M365 Defender, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Microsoft Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, Insider Risk Management, Defender for Cloud Apps (CASB).
Ensure consistency and quality through capturing, sharing and adherence of standards and best practices
Maximizes area-level capabilities of scaling through partners by coaching team to grow partner network, identifying gaps and promoting Microsoft within the ecosystem.
Build and empower team to influence compete strategies; coaches and provides support to team and across internal teams to execute strategy; identifies cross-workload strategy opportunities; maintains communications with internal partners; acts as subject matter expert on competitive disciplines
Attracts, develops and retains talent: Supports mentorship, identifies growth opportunities, builds development plans with direct reports, and conducts development discussions and drivesexecution of projects; drives a growth mindset and learning-focused culture by empowering team to focus on learning.
People Management: Manager delivers success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching and caring and establishes and communicates performance expectations; leads team to accept change and retain performance levels while responding to changing demands.