Azure Solutions Architect

Job Description Strategy: Responsible for creating capability and offering roadmap to accelerate the business. Pre-Sales: Leading growth of the offerings globally working with client partners and go-to-market team. Pre-Sales- Actively participate in presales activities, deal reviews for the Application Services engagements Solutioning: Solutioning differentiated offering for customers helping them achieve their business objectives. Partner- Partner with Hyperscalers in creating strategic initiatives that would help the growth of business. Partner: Establish Virtusa as one of the top Cloud Application Services partners. Offering- Work with Offering and marketing organization to create cloud offerings and lead the socialization and pre-sales of those offerings.Cross-organizational agility, communication, and leadership. In depth understanding of multiple key technology platforms (e.g. Azure, Red Hat, VMWare), tool chains (e.g. automation, CI/CD, etc.) and adjacent service domains (e.g. Security, Data & AI, Marketing, ERP, etc.).Experience with helping to shape transformational dealsCollaborate with clients and internal teams to develop strategic plans for the assigned portfolio that align with business objectives & drive revenue growthCollaborate with sales, Alliance, Marketing and Response (Presales) teams to identify and grow opportunities within portfolio accountsDeep understanding of Azure Cloud solutions both on premises and in the cloudDemonstrated ability to work and interact with high-level client executivesAbility to generate effective present solutions via MS office toolsStrong understanding of the sales drivers, value proposition, for pre-sales and solutioning cloud computing