Digital Technical Specialist, Azure Infrastructure

**Join a fantastic team environment** The
**Digital**
**Technology Specialist**

Microsoft is empowering every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more. We have set ourselves three bold ambitions: create more personal computing, reinvent productivity and business processes and build the intelligent cloud. Our culture is centred on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day.

As part of our transformation, one of our key areas of focus is the modernization of our sales motions. The
**Digital Sales**
**SMC** organization is a vibrant organization with a charter to accelerate Microsoft’s growth in its cloud-first, mobile-first businesses along with the traditional businesses. This organization is at the forefront of establishing a new sales model leveraging modern technology and big data and analytics to drive impactful demand response and targeted sales coverage.

**Responsibilities**:
Digital Technology Specialists are key to ensuring new Microsoft Azure customers have an excellent Azure on-boarding experience and are set up to deploy Azure workloads with ease. In order to do this, Tech Specialists are required to:

- Understand customers' overall data estate, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions (Microsoft and 3rd party solutions).
- Ensure all solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment
- Be the Voice of the Customer; Share insights and best practices, and connect with Engineering teams to remove key blockers.
- Assess the Customers' knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners
- Collaborate with the broader Digital and field sales teams to develop complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform.
- Work strategically to remove technical and business sales roadblocks and innovate to improve business development practices
- Ensure excellence in pipeline management, pipeline hygiene, and sales execution against targets
- Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community

**Qualifications**:

- German language skills
- Technology related sales or business development experience, particularly with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, database migrations, and technology management.
- An understanding and passion for cloud computing technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends and solution partners
- Proven track record of outstanding performance and achieving goals
- Takes initiative to independently grow technical knowledge
- Exceptional interpersonal as well as verbal and written communication skills to succeed in a customer facing role
- Success-driven, works well in a diverse team and enjoy a dynamic and changing environment
- Advanced Certification in one or more of the following technologies preferred: Azure Networking, Azure Solution Architect, Azure Virtual Desktop
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