We have an exciting opportunity to join the Microsoft Applications and Cloud Engineering team's pre-sales capability to help drive growth in our Azure capability. You will form part of a team that helps to shape our future projects and client engagements by identifying new opportunities to implement Azure services into organisations. This role will be involved in the earliest stages of an opportunity through early delivery (sales to delivery handover).

Microsoft Azure Pre-Sales Architect - Permanent - UK Wide

Salary: £80,000 to £120,000 per annum - Benefits - Healthcare options

Location: UK Wide

My client is a global consultancy who are currently looking for multiple Microsoft Azure Pre-Sales Architects across various Digital Practises all over the UK. This is a permanent position and represents a unique opportunity for someone to enhance their digital consulting career.

Your role

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Microsoft Applications and Cloud Engineering team's pre-sales capability to help drive growth in our Azure capability. You will form part of a team that helps to shape our future projects and client engagements by identifying new opportunities to implement Azure services into organisations. This role will be involved in the earliest stages of an opportunity through early delivery (sales to delivery handover).

• Identify business opportunities within existing clients and build a portfolio of new customer.
• Build sales content and work with sales and marketing teams to highlight our capabilities in Azure Cloud Native and DevOps and the business value and benefits organisations can achieve from using it.
• Prepare and deliver demos and POCs to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including c-suite.
• Act as solution lead on sales engagements and set architecture best practices and processes as well as high-level and low-level solution design of Azure Cloud based solutions.
• Support estimation and planning for bid responses, and be a trusted advisor for colleagues and client stakeholders, building strong relationships and customer trust.
• Your skills and experience
• We are looking for individuals with a desire to continually develop their knowledge of new functionality in the Microsoft technology stack, knowing what the future holds and how it can benefit our customers.
• We are also looking for those who can bring the following to our team:
• Energy and excitement about the technologies and capabilities provided by Azure, and the ability to demonstrate it to others to drive engagement and adoption.
• Great consulting and leadership skills to form strong and lasting relationships with clients and colleagues and to drive growth.
• Working knowledge of Azure PaaS components and a software engineering mindset (at least one modern programming language),
• PaaS, Serverless, IaaS including VMs, Storage, security configuration.
• Azure Services (Application Insights, Azure DevTest Lab, API Management, Web and Mobile Apps, Windows VM etc.).

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For a further discussion, please contact Aaron Perdesi on (phone number removed).

83zero Consulting Limited is a boutique consultancy specialising in Software Development & Agile within the UK. We provide high quality interim and permanent senior IT professionals.