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The Software Solution Engineer (SE) is a technical sales role focused on helping enterprise developers understand the value of Microsoft’s AI-powered developer stack across every stage of the software development lifecycle. You’ll work directly with engineering leaders and platform teams to accelerate GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure AI Foundry through hands-on engagements like Proof of Concepts, hackathons, code-with sessions and architecture workshops.
Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior executives. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects. The ability to influence and build relationships across technical and business teams. Demonstrates executive presence, presentation skills, deep technical product demo abilities, written and verbal communication skills. Works cohesively with customers, the Microsoft account team, and Microsoft partners. Helps others succeed by identifying and promoting innovative solutions and strategies. Experience in creating Proof of Concepts (PoCs), Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) for customers that lead to production deployments.
Responsibilities
Own technical sales with customers’ technical decision makers (TDMs) leveraging processes and tools, demos, programs, offers, and drive proof of concepts (POCs) using consultative sales methodology and technical expertise across other Solution Engineers to influence the customer vision.
Build trusted advisor relationship with customers’ technical decision makers (TDMs and TDM-1) and use proactive effort to find and understand customers’ pain points and work together with customers to co-develop secure & resilient solution architecture for production scale delivery including Unified Support and Cloud Accelerate Factory (formerly CMF) offer for every opportunity.
Overcome competitors and technical objections and manage customer escalation with Global Black Belt and engineering team to share insights and best practices for product improvements.
Critical to maintain and grow expertise in GitHub & App development frameworks & tools (VS Code, pro code/low code, AI Assisted Dev Tools) CI/CD, DevOps and platform Eng. (feedback loops, security, deployment, monitoring, performance)
Important to maintain and grow expertise in scalable architecture and cloud native app dev (APIs, containers, microservices, event-driven).
Keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the developer technical community.
Qualifications
Required Qualification:
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+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
OR equivalent experience
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 infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management
Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines
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