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
You will be the primary technical point of contact for potential customers during the sales process, owing and driving technical win for security opportunities
Deep technical understanding of Microsoft security architectures, solutions and technologies
Coordinate weekly with sellers and managers to understand and prioritize opportunities, compete scenarios and engagements to focus on
Remediate blockers and ensures technical wins for Microsoft Security and adjacent technologies. Engages with and reaches out to customers proactively and independently; builds credibility with customers as a trusted advisor for Microsoft Security.
Develop strategies and recommendations to improve the client's security posture, shapes technical win plan and tailors Microsoft messaging to audience for security opportunities.
Leads technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, architecture design sessions, explain, demonstrate, and architect the solution to help solve customer security challenges and priorities.
Demonstrates and oversees proof of concepts, presents and applies architecture patterns, proves capabilities and integration into customer environment, and drives cross-workload support for Microsoft solutions for security. Leverages insights and coaches' teams to align new or changing technology to customer security needs.
A technical specialist is responsible for engaging and scaling with other teams within and outside the organization throughout the sales cycle. Engaging partners in sell-with scenarios and supporting their technical capabilities is key to scaling solution delivery.
You will stay sharp, share your knowledge and best practices enabling further scale and growth for the Security business.