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　　Are you curious and passionate about tech? Do you enjoy driving change and being part of a collaborative team where we grow together?

　　Come join our fantastic team of deep Azure experts that challenge, support and accelerate our great customers in their cloud & AI adoption and business transformation journey.

　　We cover Core (cloud infrastructure), Data & AI, and App Innovation.

　　We are looking to expand our team with an Azure Technical Specialist - App Innovation that brings a background and passion in software engineering, solution architecture and cloud.

　　As an Azure Technical Specialist team we:

　　Work in early stages of a customer engagement and we are the technical experts supporting rest of our sales organization

　　Win the technical decision

　　Drive the solution and architecture design

　　Prove our capabilities and get the customer going with technical workshops and Proof of Concepts

　　Accelerate engagements by unblocking technical considerations

　　Responsibilities

　　An Azure Technical Specialist - App Innovation

　　Engages with and reaches out to customers proactively and independently

　　Uses knowledge of customer context, solution or portfolio expertise, and technical and industry knowledge to build credibility with customers

　　Leads and ensures technical wins for core and adjacent technologies by leading technical discussions with customers and establishing rules of engagement

　　Leverages foundational knowledge of resources

　　Engages in partner sell-with scenarios by acting as liaison between the partner and team and facilitating partner resources and processes throughout the course of the project

　　Supports partner technical capacity by identifying skill and resource gaps and providing feedback to internal teams

　　Captures core competitive knowledge and delivers back to product and engineering teams to enhance team capabilities and develop compete strategies for assigned customers

　　Provides strategic, technical, and partner input based on Microsoft capability at the account level to contribute to strategy development, leveraging partner, competitor, or open-source knowledge

　　Qualifications

　　Required/Minimum Qualifications

　　Proven years experience with software engineering, cloud and hybrid, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.

　　Several years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience in software development and architecture

　　OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND Proven years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

　　OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND A few years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

　　OR equivalent experience.

　　Additional or Preferred Qualifications

　　Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g. Developing software solutions for Azure, Azure Architect exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security).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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .