Azure Databricks Solution Sales Specialist

Solution Sales Advisory IC4 Overview MCAPS-Core accelerates customer outcomes and business growth. By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission, we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation - delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable competitive advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market. Microsoft's Commercial Solution Area sets the sales strategy, lead technical sales, and operates as a hub for the Commercial Solution Areas and Support Services that power the Microsoft Cloud. Our team of GBBs (Global Black Belts) are specialized sales professionals focused on applying depth and breadth to complex customer deals across Solution Areas. We work closely with other Microsoft teams and partners, especially Customer Success, Marketing, and the technical sales team, to ensure those solutions meet our customers’ need. As an Azure Databricks GBB Specialist, you will be a senior solution leader within our enterprise sales organization working with our most important customers. You will lead a virtual team of technical, partner and consulting resources to advance the sales process to achieve/exceed quarterly Azure Databricks usage/consumption targets for related workloads in your assigned accounts. You will be an Azure Databricks and Microsoft Frontier subject matter expert. You will build and maintain relationships with partners and customers, influence long-term strategic direction and act as a trusted advisor driving engagement with partner business leaders as well as with customers at senior levels, software developers, and IT architects. You will assist partners in selling best practices, engage in partner led sales opportunities, help customers evaluate our cloud platform for their applications, recommend solutions that meet their requirements, remove roadblocks to deployment and drive partner and customer satisfaction. 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 • Lead business level dialogue with customers around Databricks workloads, including Business transformation for enterprise computing and digital transformation. Engage Microsoft Account and solution teams on assessing Databricks strategy with a broad set of customers within your region, and present to customers in one-many venues on the Microsoft Strategy for Databricks • Act as a Subject Matter Expert for Azure Databricks to Sales teams, Cloud Architects and Solution Specialists and develop engagement approaches leveraging assets across Microsoft Databricks Architects, Product Teams and Engineering. Brief Microsoft Executives around complex sales opportunities, including competitive strategies and close plans and work with partners to engage customers with joint value positioning • Influence the Microsoft Azure Databricks go-to-market strategies by providing feedback to sales, marketing, and engineering on current and future product requirements and sales blockers. You will be recognized for sharing, learning and driving work that results in business impact for customers, partners and Microsoft. Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technical solution architecture and enterprise sales, business development, strategic consulting, technical consulting, or relevant/prioritized industry (e.g., Finance, Healthcare, Retail) OR equivalent experience. Additional or preferred qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technical solution architecture and enterprise sales, business development, strategic consulting, technical consulting, or relevant/prioritized industry (e.g., Finance, Healthcare, Retail) OR equivalent experience. Relevant technical certification(s) in cloud technologies, solution architecture, or related domain (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert) or equivalent industry certification. This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations. Experience Level Senior Level