23 days ago
Bengaluru, India or Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Advise strategic Retail and Consumer Goods customers and translate business requirements into secure, resilient, AI-enabled, cost- and performance-optimized cloud architectures.
- Identify and drive cross-solution adoption, consumption, usage, expansion, and business-value opportunities across Microsoft platforms.
- Lead technical pre-sales activities, proofs of concept, minimally viable products, rapid prototypes, technical validations, and solution deployments.
- Orchestrate Microsoft, partner, and customer virtual teams while managing technical risks, blockers, governance, operational readiness, and change adoption.
- Build relationships with technical and business decision makers through the C-suite, including CIO and CISO stakeholders.
- Provide customer and market feedback to engineering and product teams and influence product roadmaps, prioritization, and reusable intellectual property.
- Mentor and upskill technical teams, lead readiness activities, and represent Microsoft at conferences, seminars, meetups, webcasts, blogs, and hackathons.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in cloud and Data and AI technologies, IT consulting or support, systems administration, network operations, software development or support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting.
- 10+ years of experience in a customer-facing role, either internal or external.
- 8+ years of experience leading technical projects.
- Experience with Data, Azure, AI, Security, Business Applications, Modern Work, and Unified solutions.
- Deep technical expertise, strong executive communication skills, and customer-centric leadership ability.
- Technical cloud certification, such as an Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, or security certification.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.