Microsoft Technology Specialist App innovation 

South Korea, Seoul 

275137711

The main goal of a

Required/minimum qualifications

• 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.

• 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
• Language: Fluent English, Native Korean.