Microsoft and G42, a leading UAE-based AI technology holding company and the UAE National AI Champion, have announced a strategic partnership with multiple pillars aimed at responsibly elevating AI adoption to transform emerging nations. One of these pillars involves co-building and co-innovating IPs in areas such as National Large Language Models, Sovereign Public Cloud offerings, Cybersecurity, and Industry AI Solutions, all powered by Microsoft Azure Technologies.As the Cloud Solution Architect within the Microsoft Operating Unit, your primary responsibility will be to provide deep technical coaching aiding partners to develop impactful solutions and services for our customers. Leveraging your experience you will validate partners technology architecture, assist them to overcome technical blockers, and aid them to win early customers, and realize consumption and usage results from their solutions and services.Microsofts 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:

• Partner Enablement and Execution

• Enablement Execution: Lead and/or contribute to the delivery of workshops, bootcamps, and trainings necessary to build partners technical skills
• Technical Engagement: Lead deep technical engagements, including; Briefings, Proof of Concepts, Architectural Design Sessions, and Hackathons
• Best Practice Sharing: Collaborate with Microsofts Engineering teams to generate technical insight and enable best practices sharing
• Solution Development: Aid partners to develop and implement high quality solutions and/or services leveraging Microsofts latest technologies
• Evangelism: Evangelize partners practices and solutions in customers implementations via Technical briefings and Architecture Review Sessions
• Tech Sales: Enable partners on technical pre-sales skills while supporting initial partners wins and work to unblock technical issues.

Qualifications:Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 5+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting.
• Proven track record of building deep technical sales relationships with CXOs and practice building executives in ISV, MSP, CD and Sis.
• Ability to solve Partner problems and unblock technical issues, leveraging internal and/or external resources.
• Deep understanding of Microsoft Cloud Solution Area products and services, and knowledge of market business environment
• 6-10+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales, technology solutions/practice development, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications required

Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineer or related field preferred
• Certification in one of the following technologies preferred: Cloud, mobile, web application development, cloud-native application architecture (i.e., containers, microservices, API management), modern software development techniques like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e., Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure developer services, GitHub) and container orchestration systems (i.e., Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Azure), Prosci

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 .

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