Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a

theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of

lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

As the world emerges from a global pandemic, there has been a profound impact on what people expect from work. In our most recent Work Trend Index study, we found

that 53% of employees are more likely to prioritize health and wellbeing over work than before the pandemic. The shift demands companies rethink their approach to the

employee experience—things like culture, purpose, flexibility, and mental health—to thrive in this hybrid world of work.

Microsoft is at the forefront of this transformation, launching an entirely new business category called Employee Experience. Microsoft Viva is an employee experience

platform that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights in the flow of work. Powered by Microsoft 365 and experienced through

Microsoft Teams, Viva fosters a culture that empowers employees and teams to be their best from anywhere. Employee Experience and Engagement | Microsoft Viva

To support our customers, the Employee Experience team is looking for someone who is passionate about people as individuals, not just workers. The Employee

Experience Specialist is an accomplished and experienced solution seller with a proven record of accomplishment of Solution sales for a SaaS-based company or similar

technology.

You will lead a virtual team of technical, licensing expert, engineering resources to advance the sales process and achieve/exceed solution sales and usage/consumption

targets for related workloads in your accounts. You will help customers evaluate their applications, recommend solutions that meet their requirements, remove roadblocks

to deployment and drive customer satisfaction.

Purpose

  • The main goal of Microsoft Solution Engineer (SE) is to win the technical decision of customers to purchase and use our technology. The SE is expected to be able to both own and win customers’ technical decisions,

as well as find new opportunities through their contacts and engagements for sales specialists to pursue. As a SE, you 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, allowing the team to achieve/exceed quarterly sales targets in your accounts. Being part of this team will allow you

to maintain and develop your deep technical expertise across Microsoft and non-Microsoft cloud-based technologies.

  • 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.

Key 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 using Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) best practices including Unified Support and Cloud Migration Factory (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 Fabric Data Platform, DW, real-time intelligence, BI, Purview and Azure Databases: SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL.
  • Important to maintain and grow expertise in on-prem EDW appliance (Teradata, Netezza, Exadata), Hadoop & BI migration, and Azure Databricks
  • Keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the Database & Analytics technical community.

Required Qualification:

8+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

Preferred Qualifications:

8+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience

OR equivalent experience

6+ 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

Azure Certifications: DP-600 Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate or DP-700 Fabric Data Engineer Associate or DP-420 Azure Cosmos DB Developer or DP203 Azure Data Engineer Associate or DP-300 Azure Database Administrator Associate

Business-level Japanese is required.

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. 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.

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