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　　The Technology Specialist is part of the Dev Squad organization is a Latin America Area (LATAM) HQ team of software engineers that jointly develops strategic projects with customers in the region. The co-development happens in the customer environment and targets a business problem prioritized with LATAM country leaders and customer executives. It aims to materialize innovative scenarios for the customers and contribute to their digital transformation. The team leverages Microsoft Cloud platform and work with patterns such as microservices applications, data pipelines, Open AI integration and related workloads.

　　Responsibilities

　　Scale Customer Engagements

　　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.

　　Actively code in C#, Java, Golang or any other language stack that might be necessary in the project

　　Leads and ensures technical wins for core and adjacent technologies by leading technical discussions with customers and establishing rules of engagement (e.g., role boundaries, handoff strategies) for extended teams, leveraging knowledge of processes (e.g., Managed Service Provider [MSP], Managed Certified Professional [MCP]), tools, and programs (e.g., FastTrack, End Customer Investment Funds [ECIFs]). Searches for customer references to use in engagements.

　　Leverages foundational knowledge of resources (e.g., roles, Microsoft Technology Center [MTC], demo sites, virtual sites, Value Based Delivery [VBD], Customer Success Unit [CSU]) and proactively engages product teams (e.g., engineering) to remediate blockers by conveying impact.

　　Participate on a team of software engineers as an architect and active developer working with customers and partners to create solutions to solve critical customers needs

　　Work under Agile/SCRUM and Dev Ops best practices as part of a development team

　　Actively up-skill during the project time-frame and between projects in specific moments for study and training

　　Tech Lead projects as a SCRUM lead and main architect, working with your peers in a development team

　　Build Strategy

　　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.

　　Solution Design and Proof

　　Demonstrates and oversees demonstrations (e.g., architectural design sessions, and proof of concept [POC] sessions) of products, services, and integration through initial engagements. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove capabilities and integration into customer environment.

　　Presents and applies architecture patterns to partners or customers and drives cross-workload support for Microsoft Solutions.

　　Qualifications

　　Required/Minimum Qualifications

　　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+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

　　OR equivalent experience.

　　2+ years of experience working as a hands on developer, coding with enterprise customers.

　　Additional or Preferred Qualifications

　　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 infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.

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

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