Presales Engineer Digital & Application Innovation

Are you insatiably curious, deeply passionate about the realm of digital applications and innovation, and ready to tackle complex challenges in a dynamic environment? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Technology Specialist in Digital & Application Innovation at Microsoft.

Digital & Application Innovation is a growth opportunity for Microsoft Azure, as well as its partners and customers. The mission of Digital & Application Innovation group at Microsoft is to help organizations build intelligent applications with the best developer experience and productivity on the market. This comes to life through Microsoft Azure, Azure AI services including OpenAI platform, GitHub, Visual Studio, Power Platform. 

As a Microsoft Technology Specialist, you will own and win the technical decision of customers. By demonstrating the value of Microsoft’s cloud services, you will help organizations trust Azure for their workloads, tools, and data. As a Technology Specialist in Digital Application & Innovation, you’ll be at the forefront of cloud-native architecture. This means designing systems that fully leverage the unique capabilities of the cloud, such as scalability, automation, and cost efficiency. You will work within a virtual team of technical, partner and consulting resources to help educate your customers at a technical level, demonstrate, and prove our solutions, and win the technical decision. Being part of this team will allow you to maintain and develop your deep technical expertise across Microsoft and non-Microsoft cloud-based technologies such as Containers, DevOps, Software Development Lifecycle etc.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Required Qualifications (RQs)

5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

• OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

7+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience

• Partners: Experience leveraging partner solutions to solve customer needs and scale opportunities.
• Experience creating cloud migration Proof of Concepts (PoC), Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) for customers ​that lead to production deployments

Excellent Communicator: Demonstrates executive presence, presentation skills, deep technical product demo abilities, written and verbal communication skills

• Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior application architects and development leads. Experience in influencing and building relationships across technical and business teams; managing various stakeholder relationships to gain consensus on solution/projects

5+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management

• Competitive Landscape: Knowledge of competitive application development platforms, such as AWS, GCP, Salesforce, etc.
• Works cohesively with customers, the Microsoft account team, and Microsoft partners. Helps others succeed by identifying and promoting innovative solutions and strategies

Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture)

• Microsoft Azure Certification (AZ-204) or Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (Exam AZ-400) and Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900
• Deep domain knowledge in App Dev services namely Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure App Services, Azure Container Apps, Azure API Management, GitHub, VS Studio etc. and App Migration / modernization to PaaS OR hands-on experience working with the respective products at the expert level

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Own technical discussions with customers leveraging processes and tools, demos and programs; using consultative sales methodology and technical expertise to influence customer vision; establish rules of engagement for extended teams. Support the creation of new pipelines in the account team by identifying new opportunities.
• Build technology strategy by mapping the agreed customer business outcomes into an appropriate Azure technology framework, resolving concerns, preventing and removing technical blockers, and translating technology complexity into business impact.  Work with the customer, account team, and partners to drive and support the customer’s AI transformation inclusive of AI Applications and data foundation.
• Design the solution using your technical knowledge, architect skills and consulting skills to win a customer’s technical decision and meet the customer’s needs; drive Pilots/Proof of Concepts (PoC) to create momentum for Minimum Viable Product (MVP), infusing AI technologies where appropriate and being technically proficient to do Proof of Concepts (PoC) with hands-on-skills. 
• Scale through partner by engaging in partner sell-with scenarios to carry out technical engagement activities, facilitating and managing partner resources and processes for Pilot/Proof of Concepts (PoC)/Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
• Be the Trusted advisor and be proactive to find and understand customers’ pain points and design and offer the technical solution that aligns with the business case.
• Be the Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team and Global Black Belts to remove key blockers and drive product improvements.
• Maintain and grow expertise in developer tools, cloud native architecture and technologies, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights