Job Description
The Impact You’ll Be Making…
Drive the technical decision at the customer to buy, architect, develop or adopt their SAP solution based on Microsoft technology:
* Explain, demonstrate, and prove in-depth what Microsoft’s products and services can do in conjunction with SAP software on Linux
or Windows and how to enable and manage them for the largest enterprise customers by driving technical presentations,
demonstrations, ADSs, PoC’s, Pilots, and provide RFP support leveraging P-Sellers, partners or MCS as needed
* Clear technical, competitive and security blockers to Cloud Infrastructure sales.
* Drive architecture and technical discussion to lead cloud security, privacy, and compliance decisions as well as scale, performance,
agility, HA/DR considerations.
* Apply architectural experience to make tradeoffs at different layers of the architecture by keeping end customer scenarios
business goals, cost and complexity in mind.
Be the connection and orchestration point for other technical resources:
* Provide feedback to sales, marketing, and engineering on current and future product requirements.
* Communicate and escalate technical, architectural and competitive blockers and insight to their appropriate channel.
* Develop partner engagements around SAP workload for driving the sale, deployment, and adoption of Microsoft solutions.
* Orchestrate SAP solutions with other technical ressources (internaly and from Partner) for other Microsoft products and services.
Stay sharp and share your knowledge:
* Continuously nurture and expand your technical, sales, and competitive readiness.
* Participate in internal Microsoft technical communities and in the broader industry through events, blogs, whitepapers, and articles
for your domain.
Who we’re looking for…
Experiences Required: Education, Key Experiences, Skills and Knowledge:
Professional
* Experienced. 10+ years of related experience in technical pre-sales and/or technical consulting roles within the SAP ecosystem required
* Excellent Communicator. Strong negotiation, organizational, presentation, product demo, written, and verbal communication skills required
* Executive Presence. Proven experience engaging with senior level executives preferred *
Performer. Highly driven person who consistently exceeds goals and expectations required
* Collaborative. Able to work cohesively with members of the Microsoft sales & services field, Microsoft partners, and Microsoft corporate sales, engineering, and marketing required Technical
* Infrastructure architect. Broad knowledge of and ability to explain key end-user scenarios and technical architecture in the Cloud Infrastructure space with experience in hybrid cloud infrastructure and management required *
Domain-specific subject matter expert. Deep technical knowledge of implementation scenarios for SAP on Windows and Linux; to apply that to customer advanced workloads in Azure; and to provide meaningful technical feedback to engineering groups required
* Enterprise Apps knowledge. Deep technical understanding of the SAP workload and eco-system; technical proficiency in SAP NetWeaver architecture and deployment practices, SAP HANA and non-functional requirements of SAP (like performance oriented practices, scale, HA, DR, SAP platform migrations) required
* SAP sizing experience. Experience in sizing SAP Netweaver and HANA workloads with regards to Compute and Storage preferred
* Cloud deployments. Familiarity with multi-tier applications migration across premises preferred
* Service Management. Understand enterprise IT Service management and delivery (i.e. ITSM) concepts and tools desired
* Market insights. Understanding of cloud enterprise applications solutions (AWS and HANA Enterprise Cloud/HEC) desired
* Technical proficiency to quickly learn new and emerging technologies required
* Cloud Trust. Demonstrated knowledge of security, privacy, and compliance and how they factor into cloud and hybrid solutions preferred
* Planning for success. Understand cloud deployment and adoption planning
* Technical breadth. Enterprise-scale experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations and management of technology required Education
* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field required *
Certifications in domain-specific (SAP) technologies preferred
*Certification in Azure infrastructure exams (70-533 or 70-534) preferred * Certifications in information security desired