Solution Engineer – Azure App Innovation - (Swiss Market) German Speaker

Microsoft Corporation; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global tech company in Dublin is hiring a Digital Solution Engineer to drive customer technical decisions and strategies for Microsoft technology. The role involves working with cloud solutions, technical assessments, and customer engagement while offering a flexible work environment. Ideal candidates will possess relevant qualifications and technical expertise in Azure and cloud infrastructures.

Benefits

Industry leading healthcare

Educational resources

Generous time away

Qualifications

• Relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms.
• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud infrastructures.
• Experience and understanding of large-scale application migrations.

Responsibilities

• Own technical discussions with customers using consultative methods.
• Drive technical assessments and build technical migration plans.
• Design solutions to meet customer needs and validate architectures.

Skills

Technical pre-sales experience

Cloud and hybrid infrastructure expertise

Experience with Azure App Service

Understanding large-scale applications

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Visual Studio

Job description

Dublin, Ireland

Work site: Up to 50% work from home

Travel: 0-25%

Role type: Profession

Profession: Digital Sales and Solutions

Employment type: Full-Time

Overview

At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team, one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation.

SME&C is more than a sales organization, it’s a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do.If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how SME&C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business.

The main goal of aDigital Solution Engineeris to win the technical decision of customers to purchase and use Microsoft technology and cloud services. The TS is expected 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 TS, 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. Being part of this team will allow you to maintain and develop your deep technical expertise across Microsoft and non-Microsoft cloud-based technologies. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, honing your solution sales and collaboration skills, and deepening your cloud expertise. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is center 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.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms AND technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management.
• Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments (including migration ofon-premiseworkloads to the cloud).
• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud native app hosting through software design, development, deployment and app refactoring/migrations.
• Web application server technologies, cloud application design, software architecture and practices; (design/development/deployment, Agile, SCRUM, ALM)
• Experience with scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration (i.e., Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry etc.), API management, microservice frameworks, SDKsetc.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven technical pre-sales or technical consulting, or related experience.
• Experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• • Certification in relevant (Microsoft or industry) technologies or disciplines (e.g., Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).
  • OR equivalent experience
  • Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e.,Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Visual Studio).
  • Partners. Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs.

Language Requirments: German and English.

Responsibilities

• Own technical discussions with customers leveraging processes and tools, demos and programs; using consultative and/or Challenger method; establish rules of engagement (e.g., role boundaries, handoff strategies) for extended teams.
• Be the Trusted advisor and use proactive effort to findand understand customers’ painpoints and designand offer solutions (with business case) to technical leaders.
• Drive technical assessments to create a map of the current landscape and to build the technical migration plans, thus building a solid migration business case.
• Build technology strategy by mapping the agreed customer business outcomes into a appropriate Azure technology framework, resolving concerns, preventing, and removing technical blockers, and validating a strong business case for investment and translating technology complexity into business impact. Work with the customer, account team, and partners to orchestrate a technology roadmap for implementation.
• Be an Azureplatform evangelist for App Dev, App Service, GitHub, VS Studio platformscenarios likemodernizing and migrating New/Standard Applications and migrating to the cloud.
• Design the solution using your technical knowledge, architectural approach, consultancy skills and our methodology to win a customer’s technical decision and meet the customer’s needs. Ensure technical decision makers agree with proposed architecture and on the migration plan. Drive POCs and MVPs.
• Be the Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers and drive product improvements.
• Scale through partner facilitating and managing partner resources and processes for Pilot/POC/MVP.
• Owning milestone level actions and proactively closing and communicating to the Specialist.
• Identify new opportunities withincustomerengagement andhand it off to the Solution Specialist for pursuit.
• Maintain and grow expertise in cloud migration, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community.

Benefits

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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.