Role: Solutions Architect – Microsoft MWP

Experience: 12+ years

Essential Functions

• Provides Microsoft presales support to the national sales team
• Drives customer awareness of latest Microsoft 365, EM+S, and Azure capabilities
• Partners with sales team by providing technical expertise to progress opportunities 
• EM+S, and Azure Microsoft 365 Executes quick technical feasibility and proposals for moving existing workloads to Microsoft 365, and Azure
• Leads creation of solution architecture and author proposals for clients

Required Qualifications

• Technical sales experience in understanding customer needs and being able to translate that in to a solution
• Deep understanding of cloud computing, Microsoft 365, and Azure technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends
• Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior executives and growing cloud consumption share in accounts
• Experience with online services, hosting, security, compliance and data sovereignty issues
• Experience in a consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects (where necessary, managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects 
• Deep technical experience in one or more of the following areas: Operations / Management, 
• Database architecture, Virtualization, IP Networking, Storage, IT Security
• Executive presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences
• Minimum 5 years of experience