Are you insatiably curious and do you lean into uncertainty, take risks, and
learn quickly from your mistakes? Do you share and build on other's ideas
because we are better together? Do you stand in awe of what humans dare to
achieve, and are you motivated every day to empower others to achieve more
through technology and innovation?
With over 3500 global security experts, $1 billion invested annually in
security research and development, and the latest in AI and automation, our
security solutions are already helping protect customers around the world. Are
you ready to join the team that is at the leading edge of innovation at
Microsoft?
As a Modern Work & Compliance Technical Specialist (TS), you will work with a
team of sales, technical, partner and consulting resources to educate and
demonstrate the value of our Modern work that include Office 365,Teams,Viva,
Copilot & data security solutions to our customers, empowering them to
protect, govern, and safeguard their sensitive data while also managing
regulatory compliance requirements and maintaining customer & employee
privacy. Your main goal will be to win the technical decision of customers to
purchase Microsoft data security solutions. Being part of this team will allow
you to strengthen both your deep technical expertise as well as your
consultative selling skills across Microsoft and non-Microsoft cloud native
data security solutions, architectures, programs, and technologies. This role
is flexible in that you can work
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
- Primary technical point of contact for potential customers during the sales process, owing and driving technical win for security opportunities and engage with other teams within and outside the organization throughout the sales cycle. Engaging partners in sell-with scenarios and supporting their technical capabilities is key to scaling solution delivery
- Deep technical understanding of Microsoft Modernwork suite that includes Office 365, Teams,Viva, Copilot & data Security architectures, solutions/technologies including Microsoft Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, Insider Risk Management, Defender for Cloud Apps (CASB).
- Coordinate weekly with sellers and manager to understand opportunities, compete scenarios and engagements to focus on, engaging and driving to own and win the technical decisions
- Remediates blockers; leads and ensures technical wins for Microsoft Security and adjacent technologies. Engages with and reaches out to customers proactively and independently; builds credibility with customers as a trusted advisor for Microsoft Security; and searches for and uses Microsoft Security customer references; and drives customer intent to consume and drives handoff to customer success for post sales deployment.
- Develop strategies and recommendations to improve the client's data security posture, shapes technical win plan and tailors Microsoft messaging to audience for security opportunities. Enhances team capabilities for cloud native data security patterns and architectures and develops differentiated compete strategies for assigned customers.
- Lead technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, architecture design sessions, explain, demonstrate, and architect the solution to help solve customer security challenges and priorities
- Demonstrates and oversees proof of concepts, presents and applies architecture patterns, proves capabilities and integration into customer environment, and drives cross-workload support for Microsoft solutions for data security. Leverages insights and coaches' teams to align new or changing technology to customer needs.
Qualifications
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology
- 3+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- Certification in Microsoft 365 Security Administration ( Preferred)
- Consultative Technical Selling and Challenger mindset. Validated experience in consultative technical selling approach, including bringing innovative ideas to customers problems and being customer focused.
- A highly driven passionate person who consistently exceeds goals and expectations.
- Validated experience engaging with senior level executives.
- Technical Depth: Hands on and expert level technical knowledge of relevant products and solutions
- Experience presenting the value of technology solutions and architectures through customer presentations, design sessions, POCs accelerating technical wins.
- Deep understanding industry/vertical focused data security standards/regulations such as HIPPA, PCI, GDPR, etc., and frameworks like Information Governance Reference Model (IGRM). (Required )
- Deep understaing of Microsoft Modern work Stack that include Office 365, Teams,Viva, Copilot (Required)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think creatively and develop innovative solutions to technical challenges.
- Excellent communicator: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to present technical information clearly and concisely.
- Develop and maintain technical expertise:
- Experience and passion for learning (technical and professional skills); implementing practices from others; trying, failing, and learning from both successes and failures; sharing practices and knowledge for others' benefit.
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,
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