Digital & App Innovation Technology Specialist

Job Description

Are you insatiably curious, deeply passionate about the realm of digital applications and innovation, and ready to tackle complex challenges in a dynamic environment? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Technology Specialist in Digital Application & Innovation at Microsoft.

Digital Application & Innovation is a growth opportunity for Microsoft Azure, as well as its partners and customers. It includes a rich portfolio of products including Managed/PaaS services on the Azure Platform, GitHub, and Visual Studio. These technologies empower developers to build, deploy, and manage applications in a cloud-native way.

As a Microsoft Technology Specialist, you will own and win the technical decision of customers. By demonstrating the value of Microsoft’s cloud services, you will help organizations trust Azure for their workloads, tools, and data. As a Technology Specialist in Digital Application & Innovation, you’ll be at the forefront of cloud-native architecture. This means designing systems that fully leverage the unique capabilities of the cloud, such as scalability, automation, and cost efficiency. 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, and win the technical decision. Being part of this team will allow you to maintain and develop your deep technical expertise across Microsoft and non-Microsoft cloud-based technologies such as Containers, DevOps, Software Development Lifecycle etc.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical conversations with customers using demos and tools, guide them with your expertise, and help build new business opportunities.
• Develop a technology plan that aligns with the customer’s business goals, address any concerns, remove obstacles, and explain how technology can impact their business. Assist the customer and partners in adopting AI technologies and establishing a solid data foundation.
• Use your technical and architectural skills to design solutions that meet customer needs, conduct pilot projects or proof of concepts to demonstrate the viability of the product, and incorporate AI technologies where beneficial.
• Work with partners to expand reach, participate in joint technical activities, and manage resources for pilot projects or proof of concepts.
• Act as a trusted advisor, proactively identify customer issues, and design technical solutions that support their business case.
  Serve as the customer’s advocate, sharing feedback and best practices with the engineering team to address significant issues and improve products.
• Keep your expertise up-to-date on developer tools, cloud-native architecture, and technologies, and stay informed about market trends and competitors.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Previous experience in technical pre-sales or technical consulting
  Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent qualification) combined with technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with technologies from competitive application development platforms, such as AWS, GCP, Salesforce, etc.
• Experience architecting and delivering an application modernisation program in an enterprise organisation
• Experience developing applications in cloud native technologies or in Python

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.