Azure Technology Solutions Professional at Microsoft

Experiences Required: Education, Key Experiences, Skills and Knowledge:

Professional

• Experienced. 5+ years of related experience in technical pre-sales and/or technical consulting roles preferred, with deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends required
• Excellent Communicator. Strong negotiation, organizational, presentation, product demo, written, and verbal communication skills required
• Executive Presence. Proven experience engaging with senior level executives preferred
• Performer. Highly driven person who consistently exceeds goals and expectations required
• Collaborative. Able to work cohesively with members of the Microsoft sales & services field, Microsoft partners, and Microsoft corporate sales, engineering, and marketing required

Technical

• Productivity architect. Broad knowledge of and ability to explain key end-user scenarios and technical architecture in the public cloud infrastructure and management space required
• Cloud Trust. Demonstrated knowledge of identity, authentication, security, privacy, and compliance and how they factor into cloud and hybrid solutions preferred
• Planning for success. Understand cloud deployment and adoption planning
• Technical breadth. Enterprise-scale experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations and management of technology.
• Cloud depth. Deep technical experience in one or more of the following areas: Software design or development, Application Design, Systems Operations / Management, Database architecture, Virtualization, IP Networking, Storage, IT Security, Linux. Working knowledge with AGILE development, SCRUM and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with one or more of the following programming languages: .NET, C++, Java, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, Pig/Hive

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field required
• Certifications in domain-specific technologies preferred
• Certification in following technology preferred
• Certifications in information security desired

The Impact You’ll Be Making… 

Drive the technical decision at the customer to buy, architect, develop or adopt their solution based on Microsoft technology:

• Explain, demonstrate, and prove in-depth what Microsoft’s products and services can do and how to enable and manage them for the largest enterprise customers by driving technical presentations, demonstrations, ADSs, PoC’s and Pilots, leveraging P-Sellers, partners or MCS as needed
• Clear technical, competitive and security blockers to Azure sales.
• Drive architecture and technical discussion to lead cloud security, privacy, and compliance discussions.

Be the connection and orchestration point for other technical resources:

• Provide feedback to sales, marketing, and engineering on current and future product requirements.
• Communicate and escalate technical, architectural and competitive blockers and insight to their appropriate channel.
• Develop partner engagements for driving the sale, deployment, and adoption of Microsoft solutions.
• Orchestrate cross-workload solutions with other technical resources (internally and from Partner) for other Microsoft products and services.

Stay Sharp And Share Your Knowledge

• Continuously nurture and expand your technical, sales, and competitive readiness.
• Participate in internal Microsoft technical communities and in the broader industry through events, blogs, whitepapers, and articles for your domain.