Microsoft Digital Technology Specialists - Azure App Innovation 

Ireland, Dublin 

894382400

The main goal of a

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms AND technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualification

• Fluency in a western European Lannguage is preferred
• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management.
  • Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments (including migration of workloads to the cloud).
• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud native app hosting through software design, development, deployment and app refactoring/migrations.
  • Web application server technologies, cloud application design, software architecture and practices; (design/development/deployment, Agile, SCRUM, ALM)
• Experience with scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration (i.e., Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry etc.), API management, microservice frameworks, SDKs etc.

• 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.