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Technology Solutions Professional - Data Platform Microsoft
Chevy Chase, MD

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Microsoft envisions a world where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envisioning what can be and taking their careers places they simply couldn't anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and sky's-the-limit thinking - a cloud-enabled world.

Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We have a unique capability to harmonize the needs of both individuals and organizations. We care deeply about taking our ideals and vision global and making a difference in lives and organizations in all corners of the planet.

Do you always strive to learn? Are you insatiably curious and do you lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from your mistakes? Do you share and build on other's ideas, because we are better together? Do you stand in awe of what humans dare to achieve, and are you motivated every day to empower others to do more and achieve more through our technology and innovation?

Then come to Microsoft - Together we make a difference.

* Candidate must reside on the eastern side of the US.

Data Platform architect.
* Deep experience with, and ability to explain key benefits, trade-offs, and architectures relating to cloud and data platform modernization required

Cloud Trust.
* Demonstrated knowledge of identity, authentication, security, privacy, and compliance, and how they factor into cloud and hybrid solutions preferred.
* Technical breadth. Customer experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management preferred
* Technical depth. Technical experience with design, configuration and setup of SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, SQL Azure Data Warehouse, CosmosDB, and Open Source Data technologies such as PostgreSQL and MySQL required.
* Adjacent technical depth. Technical experience with big data solutions, machine learning, advanced analytics, and business intelligence/reporting tools preferred
* Collaborative. Able to work cohesively with customers, members of the Microsoft (or similar) sales, services, and marketing organizations and Microsoft (or similar) partners required.
* Excellent Communicator. Communication and collaboration, organizational, presentation, deep technical product demo, writing, and verbal communication skills required.
* Executive Presence. Validated experience engaging with senior level executives preferred.
* Consultative Technical Selling and Challenger mindset. Validated experience in consultative technical selling approach, including bringing innovative ideas to customers problems and being customer focused preferred.
* Experience. 5+years of related experience in technical pre-sales and/or technical consulting roles required
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field preferred.
* Certification in domain-specific technologies preferred.
* Certification in the following technologies preferred: SQL Server, cloud application development technologies (including OSS technologies) and Azure architecture and development exams (70-532 and/or 70-534)Performer. Highly driven passionate person who consistently exceeds goals and expectations required.Consummate Professional
* Growth Mindset. Experience and passion for learning (technical and professional skills); implementing practices from others; trying, failing and learning from that; sharing practices and knowledge for others' benefit required.
* Certification in information security preferred.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Microsoft Technology Solutions Professionals main goal is to win the technical decision of customers to purchase and use our technology. You will work in a team, enabling the customers through digital transformation by leveraging the Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge. Technology Solutions Professionals are expected to be able to both own and win the customers technical decisions, as well as find new opportunities through their contacts and work they are on for sales people to further pursue.

As a TSP, you will be a senior technical solution sales leader within our enterprise sales organization working with our most important customers. You will work within a virtual team of technical, partner and consulting resources to help educate your customers at a technical level, demonstrate and prove our solutions, that lead to winning technical decisions made by customers and support achieving/exceeding SQL Server and Azure data services revenue and usage/consumption. Being part of this team will allow you to maintain and develop your deep technical expertise across our Microsoft Data Platform and non-Microsoft technologies.

Primary accountabilities for this role include:

* You will help customers make technical decisions to build tomorrow's business and IT solutions based on Microsoft technology.
* You will lead technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, architecture design sessions, proof of concepts, and pilots to explain, demonstrate, and prove to our largest customers the capabilities of Microsoft's products and services, and how we can make their businesses more successful.
* You will lead to clear technical, competitive and security blockers to accelerate Data Platform sales and customer usage.
* You will own winning the technical decision at customers for sales opportunities and usage scenarios, through tailoring your message, bringing ideas to customers, engaging with them to show our technology differentiation, and guiding them in decision making.
* You will work with partners and others at Microsoft, as well as use our core tools, social connection tools, and AI driven data to extend your reach and the reach of your team, focusing on satisfying important customer needs
* You will be a vital connection and orchestration point for a variety of technical resources, by:
* Orchestrating complex solutions with internal and external partners for multiple Microsoft products and services.
* Helping identify and diagnose technical, architectural, and competitive blockers and respective solutions for sales opportunities and usage decision blockers and helping ensure that these solutions are implemented.
* Sharing practical knowledge with partners to drive the sale, deployment, and adoption of Microsoft solutions.
* Shaping current and future products, marketing strategies, and customer centricity ideas through your feedback to sales, marketing, and engineering.
* You will stay sharp, share your knowledge and learn practices from others.
* We encourage all our employees to continuously maintain and enhance their technical, sales, professional skills and competitive readiness.
* Your knowledge will be enhanced and shared by participating in internal Microsoft technical communities and in the broader industry through events, blogs, whitepapers, training and articles for your domain.
* You will be recognized for sharing, learning and driving individual work that all result in business impact for customers, partners and within Microsoft. We encourage thought leadership and leadership from every employee.

Primary accountabilities for this role include:

* 50% of your time will be spent as a key technical leader and influencer in shaping customer decisions to buy, architect and adopt Microsoft Data Platform solutions. Being a member of the sales opportunity team, you will give technical presentations, demonstrations, help execute proof of concepts and design solutions leveraging partners as needed.
* You will directly support the market share and revenue growth of Microsoft Data Platform through your technical leadership in our customers.

30% of your time will be spent as a thought leader in the Data Platform space.
* You lead by participating in internal Microsoft technical communities and in the broader industry events and publishing blogs, whitepapers, reference architecture etc in your area of expertise
* 20% of your time will be spent influencing the Microsoft Data Platform go to market strategies by providing feedback to sales, marketing, and engineering on current and future product requirements and sales blockers you encounter.

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