Azure Data

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**Responsibilities**:
As a Data & AI Specialist you will be a solution sales expert within our enterprise sales organization working with our most important customers. You will collaborate with a team of technical, partner, and consulting resources to advance the sales process and exceed quarterly Data & AI revenue targets in your assigned accounts.

**Key Areas of Responsibility**

**Sales Execution - **Engages in conversation with customers aligned to their industry and collaborates with account and partner teams to drive and qualify new opportunities and build pipeline. Identifies customer business and technology readiness, proactively builds external stakeholders' mapping, implements strategies to accelerate the closing of deals, contributes input on strategies to drive and close prioritized opportunities, coaches junior team members in deal plan execution, and implements close plans.

**Scaling and Collaboration**:

- Collaborates with Global Partner Solutions (GPS), identifies new partners, develops joint proposals with partners, and contributes to developing partner strategies. Applies role orchestration model and navigates the Microsoft organization to bring the best impact to the customer.

**Technical Expertise**:
**Delivers Results Through Teamwork** - Drives the execution of projects, partners and collaborates with other teams on related deliverables, and leverages others in relevant work streams.

**Role Model Microsoft Values**:

- Treats others with fairness, respect, empathy, and compassion. Models compliance and represents the Microsoft Values and the One Microsoft culture.

**Qualifications**:
**Experiences Required: Education, Key Experiences, Skills and Knowledge**:
**Professional**
- ** Experience. **5-7 years’ of sales, consulting or account management experience selling business solutions to large/global enterprise customers with a focus on data platform and Analytics & AI technologies OR
- Bacherlor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field, AND 4+ years of Data and AI technology-related sales, consulting or account management experience **required**

**Additional or Preferred Qualifications and Experience**:

- ** Prior work experience** in a Consulting/Solutions Sales position working with solutions that include Data Warehouse, Hadoop, Spark, Data Lake, SQL solutions **preferred.** MySQL, PostreSQL, NoSQL, Machine Learning experience **desired**:

- ** Industry experience**: Healthcare, Telco or Oil & Gas industry would be an asset and **preferred.**:

- ** Account Management.** Effective territory/account management: planning, opportunity qualification and creation, stakeholder and executive communication, needs analysis, value engineering, services/partner engagement, opportunity management, pipeline management, large dollar licensing and deal negotiation **required**:

- ** Executive Presence.** Experience and expertise selling to senior business decision makers by aligning & reinforcing the value of the solution to the customer’s overall business pain and/or strategic opportunities and decision criteria **required.**:

- ** Problem Solver.** Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies **required**:

- ** Collaborative. **Orchestrate and influence virtual teams to pursue sales opportunities and lead v-teams through influence **required**.

**Technical**
- ** Data & AI Platform. **Understanding of Microsoft Azure Data & AI products. The position requires the ability to articulate and demonstrate the business value of Microsoft's solutions and have a firm understanding of Microsoft's strategies and products relative to major Microsoft competitors **required**:

- ** Expertise **in one or more technologies like Teradata, Oracle Exadata, IBM Netezza, SAP (HANA, BW), HDInsight, Hadoop, Cloudera/Hortonworks, Apache Spark, Snowflake, MapR, AWS (Redshift, Glue), Google (BigQuery) **preferred**:

- ** Leadership.** Experience leading large cloud engagements especially those involving Strategic Analytics & AI solutions, Data Platform modernization and migration and related **required**:

- ** Competitive Landscape.** Knowledge of enterprise software solutions and platform competitor landscape **required**:

- ** Partners. **Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs.
- ** Certifications.** Azure Data Engineer or Azure AI Engineer **required - can be obtained when joining Microsoft**

**Education**

Bachelor’s Degree required, MBA preferred, or equivalent experienc