Azure Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI
Microsoft
Azure Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI
Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium
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Overview
Are you a curious, lifelong learner who believes in the transformative potential of data and artificial intelligence? Do you thrive on solving complex challenges in a dynamic, evolving environment? If so, we invite you to explore the opportunity to join us as an Azure Solution Engineer at Microsoft.
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Azure Solution Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in AI, Data, Infrastructure, and App Innovation. As an Azure Solution Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing Azure-based solutions that meet our clients' needs.
Key Responsibilities:
Design and architect Azure-based solutions for various projects.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
Ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of Azure solutions.
Stay up-to-date with the latest Azure technologies and best practices.
Provide technical sales and guidance to clients and team members.
We’re excited to learn from your unique experiences and perspectives—and to support your growth as we shape the future of Cloud and AI, together.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Proven experience in technical pre-sales or technical consulting.
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- OR equivalent experience.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Substantial experience in technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery OR equivalent experience.
- Experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We embrace a growth mindset, encourage diverse perspectives, and foster an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. Respect, integrity, and accountability are the foundation of how we work together.
By applying for this role, you are opening doors to multiple opportunities within Microsoft. This role offers flexibility, allowing for up to 50% remote work, with travel expectations varying based on business needs.
Responsibilities
Scale Customer Engagements
- Anticipates customer needs and issues through data gathering.
- Uses knowledge of customer context and solution or portfolio expertise to build credibility with customers.
- Ensures technical wins for core technologies by independently driving technical discussions with customers. Improves customer interactions through feedback and observation.
- Engages other resources, leveraging basic resource knowledge, for key areas of technology as needed to overcome technical blockers on assigned technology set.
Leverage Partner Ecosystem
- Engages in partner sell-with scenarios by collaborating with partners to carry out technical engagement activities and acting as a source of trusted partner knowledge.
- Supports partner technical capacity by identifying resources to scale and aligning with Microsoft training offerings.
Build Strategy
- Shares competitive insights from customer sessions with colleagues and escalates competitive situations to influence compete strategies.
- Provides strategic, technical input based on Microsoft capability at the account level to contribute to strategy development.
- Tailors Microsoft messaging to audience and captures and shares customer feedback using knowledge of specific Microsoft solutions and their context in a competitive landscape.
Solution Design and Proof
- Demonstrates and oversees demonstrations (e.g., architectural design sessions, proof of concept [POC] sessions) of solutions based on specific Microsoft products through initial engagements. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove product capabilities and integration into customer environment.
- Presents and applies reference architectures to partners or customers for their technology sets.
- Expands awareness of and begins practicing digital transformation sales methodologies (e.g., challenger sales).
Education
- Consumes and leverages readiness materials to expand domain knowledge and practices expertise by communicating with customers, partners, and senior colleagues to expand knowledge of architecture.
- Demonstrates new and updated products to increase internal virtual teams' product understanding.
- Participates as a member in the Microsoft tech community, attends community calls, sessions, hackathons, etc., and acts as a resource for their technology area.
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