About the role
Achieve technical wins for the portfolio of Cloud services you accountable for. Create and maintain the right tension to ensure velocity of project decision, delivery & implementation by customers & partners Drive technical sales by using technical demos, proofs of concept, and technical architecture accelerators to influence solution design and enable deployments. Lead architecture sessions and technical workshops to accelerate Azure adoption. Build trusted relationships with platforms 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). Own technical journey for Azure Migration with customers leveraging processes and tools, demos, and programs and partners. Use consultative and/or Challenger method; establish rules of engagement (e.g., role boundaries, handoff strategies) for extended teams. Build strategy: map the agreed customer vision into a strategy, resolve concerns, preventing, and removing technical blockers, and validating a strong business case for investment and translated technology complexity into business impact. Work with the customer, account team, and partners to orchestrate a roadmap for implementation. Scale through partners, acting as liaison between the partner and account team, facilitating partner resources and processes; supporting partner technical capacity by identifying skill and resource gaps and providing feedback to internal teams. Identify and support the creation of new pipeline within customer engagements. Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience. 8+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience. 6+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management. Deep domain knowledge in Data Center Migration, Windows Server, and SQL Server Migration (including modernization to PaaS), VMware, Networking, Security, Storage, BCDR, Infra as Code, Hybrid and Arc, or hands-on experience working with the respective products at the expert level. Additionally deep knowledge/experience with Azure Migrate and RVTools. Competitive Landscape: Knowledge of competitor cloud migration platforms, infrastructure and services including hybrid cloud technologies Experience creating cloud migration Proof of Concepts (PoC), Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) for customers that lead to production deployments.
