Azure Technology Solutions Professional

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.