Cloud & AI Solution Engineer - SAP

Are you curious, enthusiastic about infrastructure, and ready to solve complex challenges in the AI era? Join us as a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer focused on engaging with customers running SAP and helping them on their journey to the cloud and beyond. 

In this technical sales role, you will help clients understand how the Microsoft platform can help them achieve their modernisation goals with SAP. Using Azure’s IaaS and PaaS services, you will guide organisations through migration, modernisation, optimisation, and innovation, translating technical capabilities into significant business outcomes. You will collaborate across teams to deliver impactful solutions that enhance agility, reduce costs, and unlock value through AI-powered infrastructure.

As a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer for SAP, you will play a key role in helping customers modernise their use of SAP and unlock the full value of Microsoft’s cloud driving innovation with AI, analytics, and automation in SAP landscapes. You will work directly with technical and business stakeholders to design and implement secure, scalable, and resilient architectures that support AI workloads and SAP as a business-critical application. You bring expertise in SAP especially an understanding of the various solutions and had knowledge of SAP migrations, ideally to the cloud, including RISE. Beyond migration, you lead customers through modernization and exploration, advising them on how the broader suite of Microsoft capabilities can help drive an intelligent enterprise powered by AI.

You also apply networking knowledge to design hybrid and cloud-native solutions, including virtual networks, VPNs, and secure routing architectures that meet enterprise performance and compliance needs. You complement this with trusted partner solutions like NetApp, VMware, RedHat, to ensure a secure, optimised, and scalable migration experience.

As you join the team, you will have the opportunity to grow your technical expertise with access to a wide range of Microsoft learning resources including support for e-learning industry-recognised certifications across Azure infrastructure, security, and AI. 
 
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

• Drive technical sales by using technical demos, proofs of concept, and technical architecture accelerators to influence solution design and enable deployments.
• Lead architecture sessions and technical workshops to accelerate Azure adoption.
• Build trusted relationships with platforms leads to co-design secure, scalable solutions. 
• Resolve technical blockers by collaborating with engineering and sharing customer insights.
• Maintain expertise in cloud migration (Windows, SQL, Linux, PostgreSQL, app workloads), resiliency, security, and compliance. 
• Represent Microsoft in customer forums and technical communities through thought leadership.
• Develop and maintain strong partnerships with SAP and the extended partner ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Proven technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience 
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND few years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience  
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND a couple years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience  OR equivalent experience
• Proven experience in SAP solutions and infrastructure, including migration of workloads.
• Experience designing or selling solutions involving hybrid networking, secure connectivity, or network performance optimisation in enterprise environments.
• Solid understanding of Azure services, including security, compliance, and hybrid cloud scenarios.
• Ability to engage technical and business stakeholders to design and deploy scalable, secure cloud solutions. 

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 Accommodation request form.

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