Supports partner technical capacity by monitoring and analyzing resources through interactions, communicating with managers, and identifying new partnership opportunities to build subsidiary strategy. Builds competitive knowledge, documents compete patterns, and shares within the community to drive change and escalations for competitive selling strategies. Proactively develops strategic cross-workload/subsidiary and account level responses to specific market threats by identifying market patterns and delivering feedback to business group on trends and needs. Builds readiness plans for peers and proactively identifies gaps and new opportunities for learning. Provides insight onto Corporate, business and product groups, sales strategy, and business reviews for impact. Monitors, responds to, and acts as a thought leader on internal tech community posts, establishes and leads vibrant tech communities including community calls, sessions, hackathons, etc., and acts as a mentor to the community. Provides insight into how to identify opportunities to increase solutions/portfolio understanding, emphasizing continuous security enhancement and regulatory compliance. Leverage Partner Ecosystem Supports partner technical capacity by monitoring and analyzing resources through interactions, communicating with managers, and identifying new partnership opportunities to build subsidiary strategy. Scale Customer Engagements Leads and ensures complex technical wins (e.g., cross-workload, cross-team, cross-geo, subsidiary-level impact) by establishing rules of engagement (e.g., role boundaries, handoff strategies), coaching others (e.g., technical sellers, account teams), leveraging knowledge of processes (e.g., Managed Service Provider \[MSP\], Managed Certified Professional \[MCP\]), tools, and programs (e.g., FastTrack, End Customer Investment Funds \[ECIFs\]). Uses knowledge of customer context, solution or portfolio expertise, and technical and industry knowledge to build credibility with customers and act as a trusted advisor to assess and consult on their security needs. Proactively identifies and engages with key customer technical decision makers and influencers while engaging sales team and helping lead sales strategy. Solution Design and Proof Demonstrates and oversees demonstrations (e.g., architectural design sessions, and proof of concept \[POC\] sessions, pilots, hackathons) of solutions based on multiple products and position solutions against competitors. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove capabilities and programmatic framework for re-use by the business. Applies advanced sales methodologies (e.g., challenger sales) to guide customers through digital transformation solutions, underscoring security improvements and using innovation to challenge solutions against changing technology (e.g., Power Apps). Adapts and extends architecture patterns to accommodate complex customer requirements and drive integration solutions for industry flavor. Delivers assets that can be leveraged by others in the business. Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience. Strong technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience. Strong experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management. Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture). Solution Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across France is € 90,100.00 - € 151,000.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Build Strategy Builds competitive knowledge, documents compete patterns, and shares within the community to drive change and escalations for competitive selling strategies. Acts as a subject matter expert on a particular competition. Delivers competitive knowledge back to product and engineering teams. Where applicable, builds consumption plans with moderately complex requirements in coordination with Partner and Industry Solutions Delivery teams after customer sign-off. Proactively develops strategic cross-workload/subsidiary and account level responses to specific market threats by identifying market patterns and delivering feedback to business group on trends and needs.