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Microsoft’s Commercial Solution Area (CSA) sets the sales strategy, leads technical sales, and operations as a hub for the Commercial Solution Areas and Support Services that power the Microsoft Cloud. We work closely with other Microsoft teams and partners, especially Customer Success, Marketing, and other field sellers, to ensure those solutions meet our customers’ needs. As an Azure Global Black Belt (GBB) Modernization Solution Engineer focused on Application Modernization, you are a senior technical leader with deep technical expertise within our enterprise sales organization, working with our most important customers. You will own securing the technical decision to help customers realize the digital transformation through cloud computing. You will proactively identify and remove technical roadblocks to accelerate customer progress and solution adoption. You will develop and maintain holistic Azure migration and modernization expertise, able to identify projects, develop and share repeatable IPs (e.g., reference architectures, solution accelerators) to drive business and technical decisions. 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. 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.
Job Responsibility:
Application Modernization Expertise
Providing technical leadership and guidance throughout the modernization lifecycle
Driving adoption of microservices, containers, and serverless architectures
Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful application transformation
Promoting DevOps culture and CI/CD best practices using GitHub and Azure DevOps
Defining comprehensive modernization roadmaps tailored to customer needs
Architecting scalable and resilient solutions using Azure services such as AKS, ARO, ACA, App Service, and Functions
Applying development expertise to refactor and rearchitect legacy applications
Complex Deals Support: Engage deeply with customers to understand their complex technical needs and challenges and ensure that solutions meet their requirements and accelerate pipeline
Advising C-Suite in Customers: Develop and maintain a robust relationship with technical executives in top customers (e.g., CDO, CIO, CISO, CTO), gaining their mindshare and trust in Azure platform
Remove Customer and Product Technical Roadblocks: Identify and resolve technical roadblocks that may hinder customer progress, enabling the account team to accelerate the pipeline and convert deals. When product-related issues arise, engage engineering through the Go to Market team to clarify and address them. Continue supporting both the customer and the account team throughout the resolution process
Win Over Competitors & Secure Technical Decisions: Deep technical compete expert on the assigned specialization area against major Public Cloud Hyper Scalers competitors by removing technical roadblocks and leading w/MSFT product differentiators to demonstrate superior technical solutions. Build win back or surround competitive strategies, aligned with the customer's goals and objectives
Incubation to Mainstream: Identify tech scenarios and leverage/build packageable solution accelerators, reference architectures, demos, and automation frameworks to bring additional values across customers and regions
Engineering Feedback Loop: Working with Go to Market team on outbound motion through product capabilities and creating incubation execution plan and inbound motion through customer feedback on product capabilities to influence engineering product planning, roadmap, and development
Knowledge Transfer to Technical Roles: Work with enablement team as Subject Matter Expert and as a scale mechanism to skill local field solution engineers and SE managers through structured knowledge sharing, including technical briefings and readiness sessions
Thought Leadership: Be a leading expert within your area of specialization not limited to Microsoft products by speaking engagements, publishing blogs, videos, and walkthroughs that showcase innovative customer solutions, technical patterns IP, and best practices that drive scalable adoption
Requirements:
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
Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture)
Hands-on expertise with Azure platforms (AKS, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Container Apps, App Service, Azure Functions), including microservices, containerization, and serverless architectures
Proven experience in Java and .NET application development, modernization, and large-scale cloud migration initiatives
Experience leading sales of complex cloud engagements (infrastructure migration and application modernization) for large/global enterprise customers
Experience defining and executing modernization strategies, roadmaps, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, including mentoring technical teams
Executive presence with demonstrated success selling to senior technical decision-makers by aligning business value, cost savings, and strategic outcomes
Ability to orchestrate and influence virtual sales, technical, partner, and support teams
Experience applying cloud adoption frameworks, accelerators, and migration methodologies
Strong understanding of hyperscaler cloud platforms (Azure preferred
AWS/GCP knowledge a plus) and competitive enterprise cloud landscapes
Familiarity with Microsoft partner ecosystems and leveraging partner solutions to address customer needs