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Bachelor of Business Administration (Management)

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Vacancy: 1 Vacancy

Job Description

• Drive partner recruitment initiatives to expand our ecosystem.
• Develop and execute partner enablement programs and training.
• Provide ongoing support to partners, ensuring their success and growth fostering strong relationships between them and our organization.
• Provide ongoing support to the sales team to address challenges and assist in deal closing.
• Contribute to achieving solution area targets covering revenue and end customer count.
• Act as a primary point of contact for partners and vendors, providing expert advice and knowledge in assigned solution areas.
• Familiarize yourself with the company’s products, services and vendor offerings.
• Understand the value proposition and competitive advantages of the offerings and that of the company.
• Create and enhance product bundles for upselling and cross-selling.
• Develop technical playbooks and program offerings through BPS Solution Catalogue.
• Collaborate with the sales team to develop strategies for acquiring new partners.
• Proactively identify and recruit new partners to expand our ecosystem.
• Follow up with needed parties to get the partner to complete his sign up.
• Tailor the enablement program to individual partner requirements, ensuring a personalized approach that resonates with diverse business needs.
• Empower partners with the essential tools and information required for them to effectively promote and sell products and services.
• Deliver training sessions and workshops to educate partners on our products, services, and solutions.
• Commit to providing continuous education, keeping our partners at the forefront of industry trends, product updates, and best practices.
• Follow up on the enablement program complete execution.
• Craft meticulously designed training materials, resources, and documentation to fortify our partners with the knowledge and tools needed for success.
• Serve as a direct contact for resellers, providing expert presales and technical sales support for assigned solution areas.
• Review reseller performance, pipeline, and sales numbers in collaboration with the Sales Team and direct manager.
• Collaborate with Sales to recommend partners for specific programs.
• Assist in crafting tailored presentations, proposals, and demonstrations.
• Actively participate in client meetings and discussions.
• Provide support and guidance to partners, addressing inquiries and concerns promptly.
• Assist resellers in scope of work detailing solution offering and BOQ requests on Marketplace and CRM, and provide support in responding to RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs.
• Contribute to achieving revenue targets through effective presales activities and collaboration with the sales team.
• Identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities with resellers.
• Work with partners to identify and pursue opportunities to expand the end customer base.
• Collaborate with partners in presenting solutions and conducting workshops to their end customers.
• Collaborate with vendors on reseller programs and execute growth strategies.
• Foster strong vendor relationships.
• Understand vendor licensing programs and stay up-to-date on license changes.
• Address licensing and product inquiries from the team, partners, resellers, and end customers.
• Be up to date in product promotions and pricing changes and cascade back to other stakeholders.
• Understand solution features and collaborate with manager on solution offerings for resellers.
• Stay updated on new features and releases of solutions while understanding the value proposition and competitive advantages of the offerings and that of the company.
• Share with the sales team through emails, meetings or training sessions product information, promos, and program updates including but not limited to licensing and announcements.
• Collaborate on reseller pipeline and territory assigned targets.
• Collaborate with Sales to close deals and provide added value.
• Monitor and evaluate partner performance and participation in enablement programs.
• Identify areas for improvement and suggest enhancements to partner enablement initiatives.
• Keep track and submit POEs on time.
• Help create and maintain documentation for presales activities.
• Maintain records and documentation related to partner enablement activities.
• Maintain records and documentation related to your tasks.
• Track performance of initiatives and motions and report back internally.

Requirements:

• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Proficiency in delivering training and educational content.
• Ability to understand partner needs and tailor enablement programs accordingly.
• Knowledge of our products, services, and industry trends.
• Project management skills to plan and execute enablement initiatives.
• Problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Ability to work collaboratively with partners and internal teams.
• Attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality work.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new challenges.

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Company Industry: IT - Software Services

Department / Functional Area: Business Development

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Artefact is a new generation of data service providers, specialising in data consulting and data-driven digital marketing. It is dedicated to transforming data into business impact across the entire value chain of organisations. We are proud to say we’re enjoying skyrocketing growth.

The backbone of our consulting missions, today our Data consulting team has more than 400 consultants covering all Artefact's offers (and more): data marketing, data governance, strategy consulting, product owner…

About the role .

As a Cloud Architect Manager at Artefact, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing robust, scalable, and secure cloud solutions that support our clients’ data and technology ecosystems. You will collaborate closely with technical teams and business stakeholders to ensure cloud architecture is aligned with business needs, optimizing tool selection, cost efficiency, and scalability. Additionally, you will lead technical teams, mentor engineers, and contribute to Artefact’s growth by driving innovation and promoting best practices in cloud technology.

What you'll be doing .

• Lead the design and implementation of cloud infrastructure architectures (cloud, on-premise, hybrid) aligned with business requirements.
• Define and enforce best practices for cloud platform deployment and configuration, security, networking, operations and tools selection.
• Oversee the integration of cloud platforms with data pipelines, storage, and compute services.
• Standardize coding, deployment, and monitoring practices across cloud environments.
• Design and implement automated solutions to set up, monitor, and adjust cloud infrastructure efficiently.
• Lead problem-solving initiatives for complex technical challenges related to cloud environments.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple cloud projects, ensuring efficient resource management.
• Foster teamwork by mentoring, coaching and guiding cloud engineers and ensuring knowledge transfer.
• Manage client relationships regarding project expectations, timelines, and outcomes.
• Contribute to Artefact's growth by maintaining tech partnerships, leading technical proposals to support project planning and identify potential growth areas with existing accounts.

What you'll need .

• Proven experience designing and implementing cloud architectures on Azure at scale
• Strong expertise in cloud security, networking, and compliance frameworks.
• Led the end-to-end design of highly available, secure, and cost-optimized Azure environments for enterprise customers, leveraging services such as Azure Virtual Network, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure App Service.
• Defined multi-region DR/HA architectures using Azure Traffic Manager, paired regions, and Azure Site Recovery, achieving RTOs under 1 hour for mission-critical workloads.
• Enable automated patching, scaling, and monitoring tasks via Azure DevOps YAML pipelines and PowerShell DSC, improving operational efficiency.
• Deep understanding of cloud cost optimization, monitoring, and high availability design patterns.
• Collaborated with data engineers to optimize architectures on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Synapse, and MS Fabric
• Strong leadership capabilities with experience managing technical teams and large-scale projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including experience creating business-focused presentations.
• Demonstrated problem-solving abilities for complex, multi-disciplinary cloud projects.
• Experience managing senior stakeholders and navigating client discussions effectively.
• Ability to mentor, coach, and develop technical teams in cloud engineering best practices.
• A track record of contributing to business growth through technical innovation and strategic initiatives.

Seniority level

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Consulting
• Industries IT Services and IT Consulting

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Overview

At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team—one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation.

Overview

At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team—one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation.

SME&C is more than a sales organization—it’s a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do.

As an Azure Infrastructure Specialist, you are a business leader with technical expertise working with our most important managed customers. You will lead a virtual team of sales, technical, and services resources to help customers realize digital transformation through cloud computing achieve/exceed quarterly Azure consumption targets for related workloads in your assigned accounts.

You possess both a high EQ with executive presence, able to engage with senior decision makers to uncover digital transformation initiatives, and a passion to learning how Azure cloud services can deliver digital transformation. You will develop and maintain an Azure expertise, able to identify projects, build a compelling business case, and drive the consumption project to production. You will build and maintain relationships with customers, influence long-term strategic direction and act as a trusted advisor driving engagement at the CXO level with technology decision makers. You will help customers evaluate their cloud strategy, determine approaches to application and data migration and modernization, and recommend solutions that meet their requirements.

If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how SME&C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business.

Responsibilities

Sales Excellence

• Engages with internal and external stakeholders on business planning, Rhythm of Business (ROB) meetings to review and plan for accounts in the assigned territory.
• Collaborates with partners and resources and leverages customer insights or industry knowledge. Contributes to exploring business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and support customer innovation.
• Collaborates with extended sales team, partners, and marketing to conduct business analysis (e.g., whitespace analysis, identify industry trends) to pursue high-potential customers and develop a target list of potential business.
• Manages the end-to-end business of the assigned territory. Conducts forecasting for accounts and develops a portfolio and territory plan to drive intentional selling aligned with strategic priorities.
• Reviews feedback report and coaches others on ensuring customer/partner satisfaction and decreasing dissatisfaction by establishing recovery action plans to improve clients' overall experience. Manages and/or orchestrates sales and delivery success through the account team and pursuit team.
• Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry.
  
  

Sales Execution

• Identifies customer business needs and technology readiness. Contributes to the development of solutions in collaboration with internal teams, partners, and services. Proposes prioritized solutions that align with customers' needs. Articulates the business value of proposed solutions.
• Collaborates with team members to discover new opportunities. Drives incremental revenue growth through personal campaigns (e.g., portfolio analysis) or internal sources (e.g., Marketing). Collaborates with account teams, partners, or services to track and qualify new opportunities. Collaborates with other teams (e.g., account teams) and services to build pipeline. Interfaces with customers and builds relationships via social selling. Applies Microsoft's sales process (MSP) to determine the quality of the opportunity and whether to proceed.
• Implements strategies to accelerate the closing of deals. Contributes input on strategies to drive and close prioritized opportunities. Coaches less experienced team members in deal plan execution. Implements close plans (e.g., how to map timeline, engage the customer, get customer buy-in and commitment) to de-risk and drive predictable deal closure.
• Identifies opportunities to drive consumption and grow business with existing customers by initiating conversations, providing demos or quotes, and collaborating with partners or internal teams (e.g., Technical Sales Professionals, Global Black Belts. For licensing transactions and project engagements, ensures rapid and robust deployment plan at point of sale that is validated by services and partners.
• Proactively builds external stakeholders' mapping. Collaborates with account teams (e.g., Account Executives) to identify and engage senior business subject matter decision makers at the customer's/partner's business.
• Engages in conversations with customers aligned to their industry to introduce how other workloads could enable digital transformation areas that is aligned with the customer's industry and turns opportunities into deals. Initiates conversations with customers on digital transformation in one or more solution areas, in collaboration with partners and services. Creates guiding examples of digital transformation through seminars, workshops, webinars, and direct engagement.
  
  

Scaling and Collaboration

• Applies the orchestration model to leverage and expand relationships with internal stakeholders and partners (e.g., Enterprise Operating Unit). Navigates the MSFT organization to bring the best impact to the customer.
• Collaborates with One Commercial Partner (OCP) and with a network of partners to cross-sell and up-sell. Identifies new partners by researching and discussing with partners on customer scenarios. Develops joint proposal with partners. Contributes to developing partner strategies to address gaps in partner capabilities.
  
  

Technical Expertise

• Initiates conversations with prospective customers/partners at events to expand external network. Acts as a subject matter expert in one or more solution area(s).
• Leads conversations and sets up events within Microsoft. Mentors others and develops strategies for best practice sharing across subsidiaries. Contributes ideas that can be instituted across Microsoft.
• Collaborates with the 'compete' global black belts (GBB) to analyze competitor products, solutions, and/or services and implements strategies to position Microsoft against competitors in customer communication. Proactively provides analysis of the competitive landscape in supported solution area. Evaluates opportunities and makes recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal. Holistic value of MSFT platform versus single-point solution that positions MSFT favorably against competitors.
  
  

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field Or 4+ years technology-related sales or account management experience.
• Language: Fluent in Arabic and English both written and spoken commuincation
  
  

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications

• Azure Certifications: Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) and/or Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (Exam AZ-305)
• Domain knowledge in Data Center Migration
• Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technology, or related field.
  
  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Seniority level

• Seniority level Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Sales and Business Development
• Industries Software Development

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The Role will be a technical architect with specific experience in working with end clients. He/She will be developing and delivering an architecture strategy to support various Ctelecoms Services and Offerings. Architect and Design functional technology solutions, Leading the Design for customers and document the scope of projects, conduct presentations to customers both in-person and using telepresence as well as other collaboration tools and prepare demos and POCs for customers that will help open new Business Opportunities.

Description Of The Job

• The Main Objective of this role is to translate the technical specification of the products or solution in a straightforward business language to the clients and to generate demands in his specialized solution areas within customer segments with specific approaches.
• He/She will be engaged in all technical sales activities, and He must have Microsoft Azure-specific knowledge., Any certifications and specializations to back up that knowledge are highly recommended.
• Collaborate with the sales team to build a winning strategy, whiteboard with a customer and team members - Build BOM’s, Costing Analysis, SOW’s, and Visio’s
• Able to relay technical information to both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Develop strategic relationships with Microsoft.
• Manage and support the pre-sales process in cooperation with the sales Team.
• Attending initial sales meetings and meeting the client to analysis its IT needs. And answering any technical questions the client might have.
• Provide strategic technical advice to customers, communicating value-added contributions of MS products and services (mainly Microsoft Azure), including both long term messages about products, technologies, and services, as well as short term positioning for competitive situations or dynamic market conditions.
• Support Proof of Concepts, Architecture Design Sessions and Strategy/Technology Briefings proving Microsoft’s capabilities and other products can meet customer’s requirements.
• Build Proactive GTM Approaches for Azure Solutions.
• Proactively identify opportunities for upselling and cross-selling to maximize revenue growth.
  

Tasks And Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing Azure solutions that meet customer needs and align with best practices and industry standards.
• Work with the Sales Team and Operations in evolving the proposition.
• Leading the design and implementation of complex cloud solutions, including integrating with other systems and platforms.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including developers, project managers, and other architects, to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Conducting architecture assessments, providing recommendations, and creating roadmaps to help customers achieve their business goals.
• Advising and guiding customers on cloud-related topics, including security, compliance, performance, and cost optimization.
• Understand customer needs: Work closely with customers to understand their business objectives and technical requirements. Identify opportunities where Azure solutions can address customer challenges and add value to their business.
• Staying up-to-date with emerging cloud technologies and best practices and sharing this knowledge with customers and the internal team.
• Design solutions for customers and document the scope of projects.
• Conduct presentations to customers both in-person and using telepresence as well as other collaboration tools.
• Prepare demos and POCs for customers that will help open new pipelines.
• Proposal development: Develop proposals and presentations that clearly articulate the proposed solution, its business value, and its technical capabilities. Work closely with sales teams to ensure proposals are accurate and meet customer requirements.
• Collaboration: Work closely with sales teams, technical architects, and other subject matter experts to ensure proposed solutions meet customer needs and align with company strategy.
• Coordinate with the Microsoft for both opportunities and Approaches Alignment.
• Provide continuous support and knowledge transfer to the Sales team in the specialized areas.
• Attend pre-sales meetings with sales staff and meetings with the customer where input/contribution is required.
• Presenting and demonstrating Ctelecoms services to customers.
• Primary Focused Domain(s): Microsoft Azure (Focusing on Infrastructure and Migration), Active Directory, Hyper-V, SQL Servers, Networking, and Backup & DR.
• Build scope of work/low level technical scope and technical design documents based on the business requirements.
• Assist the Sales team in forecasting and managing the Microsoft pipeline, meeting sales goals, and achieving targets.
• Explore cross-selling and up-selling opportunities by coordinating with Microsoft and other vendors and manage opportunities on both CRM and the Microsoft Partner Center Portal.
• Coordinate with Microsoft Teams and other vendors for aligning opportunities and approaches.
• Support Marketing by providing continuous technologies updates in (Articles, Videos, Events …etc.).
• Conduct frequent internal knowledge transfer and enablement sessions for the Sales Team.
• Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload / industry.
  
  

Qualification (Education/Work Experience)

• BA in Information Technology or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles, including scalability, availability, and resilience.
• Minimum 5 Years of Experience in Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Infrastructure Technologies.
• Minimum 3 years of Experience in presales.
• Expertise in Azure services, including compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles, including scalability, availability, and resilience.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Azure certifications, such as the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification, are preferred.
• Strong understanding of core architectural concepts, including distributed computing, scalability, availability, and performance within depth knowledge of MS Azure IaaS, PaaS SaaS services, and Building a technical architecture in MS Azure.
• Experienced with operating Azure Stack infrastructure end-to-end - planning, deployment and integration, packaging and offering cloud resources and requested services on the infrastructure.
• Have good experience and Hands-on on the following tools (Azure Migration and assessment tools, Azure site recovery deployment planner tool, Azure price calculator, AVD Experience Estimator).
  
  

Other Knowledge, Additional Competencies

• Fluent in English.
• Willingness to upskill as required by the tasks to be performed.
• Good time management.
• Good understanding of priorities and the proper finalization of tasks.
• Good reporting and documentation skills.
• Proven ability to work under stress and time pressure.
• Commitment and dedication.
• Team player.
• Self-Learning and Strong Search capability.
• Proven presentation and communication skills as well as a professional approach and appearance
• Being client service oriented
• High sense of responsibility and ownership, acting like owner in what you do.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills.

Seniority level

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries IT Services and IT Consulting

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Responsibilities (Text Only) - You drive your team in operating and optimizing complex and high-impact situations for strategic customers/partners in collaboration with internal stakeholders. - You lead the adoption of Microsoft offerings based on analysis/differentiation of Microsoft and competitor products to influence the industry-wide direction for specific architecture(s). - You connect gaps and patterns across business and technology areas, and drive changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and/or processes that enable solutions to scale across customers/partners. - You lead virtual teams around technologies and customer/partner challenges by sharing ideas, insights, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape.Qualifications (Text Only) Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 7+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting - OR equivalent experience - Azure IaaS related experience is required. Breadth of technical experience and knowledge, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise in one or more of the following Azure IaaS areas is expected: - Azure IaaS - Storage - Networking - Compute - High availability and disaster recovery features for IaaS components. - Working experience with developing, debugging, performance tuning and supporting any of the following: - Dev Ops and knowledge of Azure Web Apps/App Services, Web Application Firewall - Azure PaaS, Service Fabric, Azure App Services - AKS, Key Vault, Managed Service Identity, Azure AD App Authentication/OAuth - Kubernetes Services/Containers - API Management, API Connections - Logic Apps/Function Apps - Notification Hubs - C#, .NET Framework/.NET Core, Java, Python or related - Demonstrate a strong ability to develop strategic ongoing customer relationships to gain the trust and respect of customers. Preferred Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 12+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting - OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting - OR equivalent experience. - 6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external). - 6+ years experience leading technical projects - Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications) 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 requestvia 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Opportunity for Early in career

Are you an insatiably curious, deeply passionate and hands-on cloud technologist? Are you at your best when working with engineers, architects and technology leaders on fun and hugely impactful technical challenges? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer forcommercial customers at Microsoft. Here, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, working on cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies to drive meaningful impact. Join us and be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.

We will be opening several new roles, and candidates should have expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Cloud Infrastructure including Cloud Migration & Modernization
• Data and Analytics
• AI Applications
• Software, Development Tools & AI
  
  

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.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
• Lead hands-on engagements—hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture & technical workshops—to accelerate adoption of Microsoft’s developer tools and cloud platforms.
• Build trusted relationships with developers and platform leads as well as AI decision makers to co-design secure, scalable architectures and solutions
• Resolve technical blockers and objections, collaborating with engineering to share insights and improve products.
• Maintain deep expertise in one of the following:
• Software Solutions Engineer: GitHub, Visual Studio, AI-assisted dev tools, Foundry SDK, CI/CD, DevOps, and cloud-native development (APIs, containers, microservices)
• Data Solution Engineer: Analytics Portfolio: Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, DW, real-time intelligence, BI, Copilot), Azure Databricks, Purview Data Governance and Azure Databases: SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, Maintain and grow expertise in on-prem EDW (Teradata, Netezza, Exadata), Hadoop & BI solutions.
• Infrastructure Solution Engineer: Cloud migration (Windows, SQL, Linux, PostgreSQL, app workloads), resiliency, security, and compliance. Deepen knowledge of enterprise apps (SAP, Oracle) and Azure VMware Solution (AVS).
• AI Applications Solution Engineer: AI Foundry & App architecture (Agentic AI framework, TensorFlow, Pytorch, Responsible AI) and App architecture/cloud native dev (APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven). Maintain and grow expertise in AI Management & Security (Gen AI Ops, Sentinel, orchestrator, monitoring).
• Represent Microsoft in customer forums and technical communities through thought leadership.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications (RQs)

• 1 -2 years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1-2 years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1-2 year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR equivalent experience
  
  

Data Solution Engineer Required Qualifications

• Expert in Azure Databases (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL) and Azure Analytics (Fabric, Databricks, Purview), with experience in migrations, AI app development, and data solutions across platforms like BigQuery, Redshift, and Snowflake.
• Proven leader of technical engagements (hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that deliver production-scale results with strong focus on data security and governance.
  
  

AI Applications Solution Engineer Required Qualifications

• Full-stack & Cloud-Native Expert: Specializes in app architecture modernization and cloud-native development (APIs, microservices, containers, event-driven systems, vector/graph DBs).
• AI/ML Leader: Skilled in AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Agentic AI, Responsible AI), with a track record of leading impactful technical engagements (PoCs, MVPs, hackathons).
  
  

Infrastructure Solution Engineering - Required Qualifications

• Cloud & Infrastructure Expertise: Proven experience in migrating workloads (Windows, SQL, Linux, PostgreSQL), designing hybrid networking and secure connectivity, and implementing containerization strategies using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and App Platform.
• Solution Design & Stakeholder Engagement: Strong grasp of Azure services (security, compliance, hybrid cloud) with the ability to engage both technical and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure cloud solutions.
  
  

Software Solution Engineer - Required Qualifications

• Strong experience engaging enterprise dev teams (developers, architects, decision makers) and leading technical initiatives like hackathons, PoCs, and MVPs to production outcomes.
• Proficient in modern languages (JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C#, Java), frameworks (.NET, Node.js, React), and tools (GitHub, VS Code, CI/CD, DevOps, platform engineering).
  
  

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• Seniority level Not Applicable

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• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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Responsibilities (Text Only) - You drive your team in operating and optimizing complex and high-impact situations for strategic customers/partners in collaboration with internal stakeholders. - You lead the adoption of Microsoft offerings based on analysis/differentiation of Microsoft and competitor products to influence the industry-wide direction for specific architecture(s). - You connect gaps and patterns across business and technology areas, and drive changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and/or processes that enable solutions to scale across customers/partners. - You lead virtual teams around technologies and customer/partner challenges by sharing ideas, insights, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape. Qualifications (Text Only) Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 7+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting - OR equivalent experience - Azure IaaS related experience is required. Breadth of technical experience and knowledge, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise in one or more of the following Azure IaaS areas is expected: - Azure IaaS - Storage - Networking - Compute - High availability and disaster recovery features for IaaS components. - Working experience with developing, debugging, performance tuning and supporting any of the following: - Dev Ops and knowledge of Azure Web Apps/App Services, Web Application Firewall - Azure PaaS, Service Fabric, Azure App Services - AKS, Key Vault, Managed Service Identity, Azure AD App Authentication/OAuth - Kubernetes Services/Containers - API Management, API Connections - Logic Apps/Function Apps - Notification Hubs - C#, .NET Framework/.NET Core, Java, Python or related - Demonstrate a strong ability to develop strategic ongoing customer relationships to gain the trust and respect of customers. Preferred Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 12+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting - OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting - OR equivalent experience. - 6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external). - 6+ years experience leading technical projects - Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications) 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 requestvia 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr

With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft's products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers' expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft's portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.
The Global Customer Success (GCS) organization, an organization within CE&S, is leading the effort to enable customer success on the Microsoft Cloud by harnessing leading, AI-powered capabilities and human expertise to deliver innovation solutions that accelerate business value, drive operational excellence and nurture long term loyalty.
Do you have a passion for Azure IaaS, Cloud Identity and Security as well as using best-in-class tools created by Microsoft? Are you looking for a role where you can interact directly with large enterprise customers to improve the stability and performance of the solutions they are deploying in Azure? Do you want to join one of Microsoft's fastest growing businesses? If so, we are looking for you!
As Mission Critical Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) you interact with the customer on a regular basis in a proactive and programmatic manner. You are familiar with the solutions and customer's organization. You bring deep technical knowledge and "know me" of the overall solution and understand how it contributes to the customer's business goals. You define and own execution of architectural updates to customer's environment to meet optimization goals.
During a critical situation, you function as the customer's single point of contact. You are the link between the customer, support and engineering. You provide the context of the solution and the impact of the current critical situation. You provide the available status information at the right level back to the customer.
Your proactive technical work lays the foundation for a successful operation of the solution. You deliver solution-oriented proactive services to ensure solution reliability, stability and optimal performance. You provide technology-specific deep technical expertise. You deliver ad-hoc trainings / workshops according to the customer's needs. You ensure the solution is built & run according to leading practices and provide the technical knowledge to remediate issues.
This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
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.
**Responsibilities**
Your responsibilities for this role include advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into designs for Azure solutions that align with the Azure Well-Architected Framework. In this role, you implement solutions on Azure by partnering with various other job roles, including Developers, Administrators, Security and Data Engineers.
Additionally, responsibilities include:
- Create and Update deep technical understanding and documentation of the customer's technology and solution (KnowMe) and Workload record(s) for their assigned solutions.
- Deliver Onboarding Assessments and define and drive Delivery Plan
- Regular internal touchpoints with Team Manager, CSAM (Customer Success Account Manager), Mission Critical CSAs (Cloud Solution Architects) and connected teams like Azure Engineering Direct (AED), Azure Rapid Response (ARR) & others to ensure alignments
- Ensure successful delivery of remediation activities
- Identify trends, analyze and coordinate delivery opportunities
- Provide case trend analysis and recommend remediation activities during regular customer reviews
- Function as a Trusted Advisor and provide advisory support with deep technical focused analysis and KnowMe.
- Scoping of engagements, discussing workstreams and assigning actions and agreeing ETAs.
- Provide RCA in coordination with AED (Azure Engineering Direct) for critical incidents (Sev A/0)
- Responsibility for driving towards a stable and robust solution and minimize reactive demand and time to recovery.
**Qualifications**
**Required Qualifications**
Strong Azure and Identity related experience.
As mentioned above, alongside proficiency in Azure Infrastructure, having knowledge in Cloud Identity is advantageous. Further specifics regarding skill sets are highlighted below.
**Azure Infrastructure:**
+ High availability and disaster recovery features for IaaS components.
+ Azure Governance / Cloud Adoption FrameworkAzure Policy, Management Groups, Governance / Compliance as Code
+ ARM JSON or Terraform Templates - (Infrastructure as code) Azure CLI and/or PowerShell.
+ Strong understanding of Windows and/or Linux Operating Systems
+ Experience with Azure PaaS, WVD, Identity, or Azure Security offerings is a plus.
+ Security concepts for Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Operating Systems
+ Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Containers / Docker knowledge
+ Strong troubleshooting skills and support experience
+ Face-to-face customer engagement skills
+ Excellent written, oral and presentation skills
+ Troubleshooting knowledge & skills, Microsoft Certifications and/or AWS qualifications desirable
+ Degree qualification or equivalent experience
+ Good understanding of Agile / Scrum / ITIL / Service Management?
**Cloud Identity :**
+ Experience in designing, implementing?and securing Entra ID, B2B, B2C, Active Directory.
+ Experience in integrating on-premises Active Directory with Entra ID (using eg. Entra ID Connect, Active Directory Federation Services)
+ Experience in designing, implementing?and securing Active Directory Federation Services.
+ Experience with Microsoft Server products and implementation
+ Certification in Microsoft or other Cloud Technologies or Security.
+ Envision and deploy modern hybrid identity solutions (eg. Entra ID MFA, Entra ID Conditional Access, Entra ID Privileged Identity Management, Microsoft Entra External ID for partners (B2B)
+ Microsoft Entra External ID for customers (CIAM), Entra ID Application Proxy, Entra ID App Integration and Access Management, Access Reviews, Identity Protection, Defender for Identity, just-in-time administration, passwordless authentication, user self-service capabilities)
+ Understanding of OAUTH, OpenIDconnect, and SAML protocols
+ Understanding of Identity Security, CIS/SCM baselines, Threat protection with Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics, Azure Security Center, Azure Log Analytics.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .

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Are you curious, passionate about infrastructure, and ready to solve complex challenges in the AI era? Join us as a Cloud & AI Digital Solution Engineer focused on the Azure platform for Enterprise customers at Microsoft.

In this technical sales role, you’ll help customers design secure, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures that support their modernization goals. Using Azure’s IaaS and PaaS services, you’ll guide organizations through migration, optimization, and innovation—translating technical capabilities into real business outcomes.

You’ll collaborate across teams to deliver impactful solutions that enhance agility, reduce costs, and unlock value through AI-powered infrastructure.

As a Cloud & AI Digital Solution Engineer for the Azure platform, you’ll play a key role in helping mid-market customers modernize their infrastructure and unlock the full value of Microsoft’s cloud. You’ll work directly with technical and business stakeholders to design and implement secure, scalable, and resilient architectures that support AI workloads and business-critical applications.

You bring deep expertise in migrating core workloads—including Windows, SQL Server, Linux, PostgreSQL, and Oracle—to Azure. Beyond migration, you lead customers through modernization using the 6R strategy, containerization best practices, and Azure-native services like AKS and Arc, while exploring how AI and intelligent agents can accelerate legacy transformation.

You also apply strong networking knowledge to design hybrid and cloud-native solutions, including virtual networks, VPNs, and secure routing architectures that meet enterprise performance and compliance needs. You complement this with trusted partner solutions like NetApp, VMware, RedHat, and SAP to ensure a secure, optimized, and scalable migration experience.

As you join the team, You will have the opportunity to grow your technical expertise with access to a wide range of Microsoft learning resources—including support for earning industry-recognized certifications across Azure infrastructure, security, and AI.

With a solid understanding of Azure security services and compliance frameworks you will help customers meet regulatory requirements and build Cloud environments that are ready for the future.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical sales by using technical demos, proof of concepts, technical architecture accelerator to influence solution design and enable deployments.
• Lead architecture sessions and technical workshops to accelerate Azure adoption.
• Build trusted relationships with platform leads to co-design secure, scalable solutions.
• Resolve technical blockers by collaborating with engineering and sharing customer insights.
• Maintain expertise in cloud migration (Windows, SQL, Linux, PostgreSQL, app workloads), resiliency, security, and compliance.
• Deepen knowledge of enterprise apps (SAP, Oracle) and Azure VMware Solution (AVS).
• Represent Microsoft in customer forums and technical communities through thought leadership.
  
  

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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications (RQs)

• 5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR equivalent experience
• Proven experience in cloud infrastructure, including migration of workloads such as Windows, SQL, Linux, and PostgreSQL.
• Experience designing or selling solutions involving hybrid networking, secure connectivity, or network performance optimization in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), App Platform, and containerization strategies.
• Strong understanding of Azure services, including security, compliance, and hybrid cloud scenarios.
• Ability to engage technical and business stakeholders to design and deploy scalable, secure cloud solutions.
  

Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

• 6+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience
• OR equivalent experience
• 4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management
• Familiarity with enterprise platforms such as SAP, Oracle, and ISVs like NetApp, VMware, and RedHat.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, and Public Sector compliance standards.
  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Seniority level

• Seniority level Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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