<b>Overview</b><br><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Work with multinational enterprise customers to achieve their business goals using Azure as their platform of choice. Open doors, become a trusted technical adviser, uncover opportunities and turn their ambitions into practical solutions that deliver business value.</p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Combine an enterprise-architecture mindset and broad cloud understanding with strong, hands-on Apps and AI expertise. You do not need to be the deepest expert in every Azure service; know how a complete solution fits together and when to involve specialists and subject matter experts.</p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">This role offers autonomy and influence across customer organisations. Own the technical direction of complex opportunities, align teams when priorities are unclear and take responsibility for achieving agreed technical outcomes. Work from executive conversations to practical demonstrations, challenging assumptions constructively and drawing on account teams, specialists and partners.</p><br><br><b>Responsibilities</b><br><h3 style="margin: 5.5pt 0cm 3pt; break-after: avoid; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Technical Sales Leadership</h3><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Proactively build customer access, discover unmet needs across Azure and create new technical opportunities that deliver business value.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Independently lead complex engagements spanning multiple technologies, teams and customer locations. Align stakeholders, resolve competing priorities and drive technical decisions through discovery, workshops and demonstrations.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 5.5pt 0cm 3pt; break-after: avoid; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Application Modernization</h3><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Help customers modernise applications using Azure and cloud-native approaches, balancing existing investments with future business needs.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Guide modern software delivery and developer productivity, including GitHub and GitHub Copilot, to accelerate innovation.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 5.5pt 0cm 3pt; break-after: avoid; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">AI & Intelligent Applications</h3><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Shape intelligent applications and agent solutions using Microsoft Foundry, Copilot technologies and enterprise data, including Microsoft Fabric where relevant.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Build focused prototypes and demonstrations to test customer ideas, show value and guide secure, responsible AI adoption.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 5.5pt 0cm 3pt; break-after: avoid; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Solution Design & Architecture</h3><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Take an end-to-end view across Azure infrastructure, networking, identity, security, data, applications and AI, including hybrid environments.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Adapt and extend architecture patterns for complex customer requirements. Make clear recommendations on trade-offs between business value, security, reliability and cost, and develop practical roadmaps rather than isolated product designs.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Work with specialists, customer success and partners to help customers progress from architecture to adoption.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 5.5pt 0cm 3pt; break-after: avoid; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Customer & Market Engagement</h3><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Build trusted relationships from developers and architects to Heads of Development and VPs; listen, challenge constructively and build consensus across technical and business stakeholders.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Understand customer priorities, programmes and decision-makers, aligning technical engagement with their wider business and transformation strategy.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 5.5pt 0cm 3pt; break-after: avoid; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Sales & Business Impact</h3><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Use business and commercial judgement to connect technical choices to customer outcomes and differentiated Microsoft value, building a clear case for investment.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Qualify technical opportunities around clear customer needs and business value, and agree meaningful next steps.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Shape the strategy for winning and growing opportunities with account teams, using customer and competitive insight to guide investment decisions and overcome technical barriers.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 5.5pt 0cm 3pt; break-after: avoid; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Team & Community Contribution</h3><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Lead collaboration across teams and coach technical colleagues and account teams. Create reusable architectures and approaches from customer engagements, and help others apply them to improve outcomes beyond your own opportunities.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Maintain hands-on learning, relevant skills and certifications, and demonstrate inclusion, integrity and customer focus.</li></ul><br><br><b>Qualifications</b><br><h3 style="margin: 5.5pt 0cm 3pt; break-after: avoid; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Minimum Qualifications</h3><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Meet one of the following alternatives:</p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience;</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience;</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">OR 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience;</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">OR equivalent experience.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 5.5pt 0cm 3pt; break-after: avoid; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Technical Experience</h3><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Proven experience across technical selling and delivery, leading complex opportunities across multiple technologies and teams from discovery to practical validation. Evidence of sound architectural decisions when requirements are unclear and influence beyond your own work.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Strong understanding of Azure, enterprise architecture and how infrastructure, security, data, applications and AI work together.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Hands-on application development and AI capability, including building prototypes and explaining technical choices to customers.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Experience with modern software delivery and developer productivity, using Microsoft technologies or comparable platforms.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Strong stakeholder management, communication and commercial judgement, with the ability to work independently from practitioner to executive level and navigate ambiguity across organisational boundaries.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 5.5pt 0cm 3pt; break-after: avoid; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Preferred Qualifications</h3><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">8+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">6+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Experience with enterprise modernization, AI solutions or multinational customer engagements, including Azure, Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Fabric or GitHub.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Relevant cloud, AI, development, architecture or security certifications.</li></ul><h2 style="margin: 7pt 0cm 3.5pt; break-after: avoid; font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">What Success Looks Like</h2><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Customers seek your advice and involve you in their technical and business priorities.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Strong relationships reveal new technical opportunities and support customer growth.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Complex opportunities move forward because your architecture recommendations and technical proof help customers resolve trade-offs and make confident investment decisions.</li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 1pt 0px; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Customers experience a coordinated Microsoft team, and colleagues reuse your architectures and approaches to achieve stronger outcomes.</li></ul> <br><p>This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.</p><br><hr><br><p>Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html"><b><u>requesting accommodations.</u></b></a></p>