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Director Solution Engineer Manager

Director Solution Engineer Manager

Charlotte StaffingCharlotte, NC, US
1 day ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

AI Business Process Director Solution Engineer Manager

Are you insatiably curious and do you lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from experience? Are you passionate about transforming business processes and applications through AI? If so, we are looking for you! We are seeking an AI Business Process Director Solution Engineer Manager who thrives on solving complex business challenges and driving modernization through AI-powered applications. In this role you'll lead initiatives that leverage Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Copilot Studio to optimize workflows, enhance decision-making, and deliver measurable impact across industries. This role includes people management responsibilities, such as driving employee growth and development, executing strategic projects, and managing performance. You will orchestrate team resources, coach solution engineers, and drive mid- to long-term strategy through cross-workload capacity planning, prioritization, and utilization of resources. You'll empower your team to influence customer decisions, ensure technical wins, and streamline processes across engagements. You'll also support partner technical capacity by identifying gaps, growing the partner network, and promoting Microsoft's capabilities across the ecosystem. You will play a pivotal role in designing and deploying intelligent solutions that streamline operations and elevate business outcomes. You'll guide customers through scalable solution design, influence strategic decisions, and integrate AI agents into core business applications using tools like Copilot Studio and Power Platform. You'll ensure consistency and quality by capturing and sharing best practices, implementing cross-functional initiatives, and driving alignment across teams and channels.

Responsibilities

Build Strategy

  • Builds competitive knowledge of team by enabling competitive learning and identifying experts to share knowledge. Enables team to share compete knowledge with internal teams and communities, influence compete strategies, and highlight Microsoft advantages during architecture and capability discussions. Acts as a subject matter expert on a particular competitive discipline(s).
  • Maintains communications with internal partners (e.g., Account Technology Unit [ATU], Customer Service Unit [CSU] manager, SSM) on highest potential customers to pre-align technical resources to customer and customer cases based on account planning and priorities, with the flexibility to realign to minimize orchestration and enable proactive engagements as needed.
  • Works with local marketing and account teams to shape strategic win and customer success plans and tailor to audience for the local markets using knowledge of Microsoft offerings, their context in the competitive landscape, and broader market trends. Ensures team is equipped to execute compete strategy, collaborating with cross-functional groups as needed. Where applicable, oversees team(s) in the building of consumption plans with moderately complex requirements in coordination with Partner and Industry Solutions Delivery teams after customer sign-off.

Education

  • Ensures team members participate in tech communities and drives feedback to improve overall team member experience and effectiveness at subsidiary level.
  • Acts as a technical thought leader by sharing best practices (e.g., architectures, materials) and regularly delivering content at Microsoft events (e.g., TechReady). Provides insight into how to identify opportunities to increase solutions / portfolio understanding.
  • Enables and empowers team to develop technical expertise and provide technical insights to internal teams. Acts as a role model by increasing own technical knowledge and serving as a respected technology leader to team. Provides insight onto Corporate, business and product groups, sales strategy, and business reviews for impact.
  • 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.
  • Maximizes area-level capacity and capabilities by coaching team to grow partner network, identifying gaps and promoting Microsoft within the Microsoft ecosystem (e.g., account teams). Raises escalations or alleviates blockers through collaboration with manager-level counterparts in cross-functional groups.
  • People Management

  • Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model : Live our culture. Embody our values. Practice our leadership principles. Coach : Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries. Help the team adapt and learn. Care : Attract and retain great people. Know each individual's capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others.
  • Scale Customer Engagements

  • Proactively identifies and engages with key customer technical decision makers and influencers while engaging sales team. Coaches and enables team to identify and proactively engage with key customer technical decision makers and influencers to help unblock technical obstacles.
  • Enables and empowers team to influence customer decisions and ensure technical wins by streamlining processes and managing the flow of wins, leveraging deep knowledge of processes (e.g., Managed Service Provider [MSP], Managed Certified Professional [MCP]), tools, and programs (e.g., FastTrack, End Customer Investment Funds [ECIFs]). Aligns goals across solution areas and facilitates cross-selling with various workloads (e.g., Apps, Data and Infrastructure)
  • Leverages knowledge of resources (e.g., roles, Microsoft Technology Center [MTC], demo sites, virtual sites, Value Based Delivery [VBD], Customer Success Unit [CSU]) and owns resolution of technical and non-technical blockers by engaging other teams (e.g., engineering, Account Team Unit [ATU], Specialist Team Unit [STU]) and conveying impact. Anticipates and addresses future potential blockers based on needs. Identifies patterns of blockers within area of expertise and drives resolution through local and global escalation.
  • Uses knowledge of customer context, and deep technical, domain, and industry knowledge to build credibility with customers.
  • Ensures consistency and quality through capturing, sharing, and adherence of standards and best practices in customer engagements by implementing cross-functional initiatives to different channels across a subsidiary to drive consistency in technical approach and ensure customer technical experience across teams.
  • Orchestrates team resources and coaches team to maximize impact of customer engagements and drive mid-to long-term strategy through cross-workload capacity planning, prioritization, and utilization of resources. Proactively plans team resources and influences future blueprints. Qualifies and prioritizes opportunities, and holds team accountable for maximizing selling time to achieve scorecard objectives and subsidiary strategy.
  • Solution Design and Proof

  • Applies advanced sales methodologies (e.g., challenger sales) and coaches team in guiding customers through digital transformation solutions and using innovation to challenge solutions against changing technology (e.g., Power Apps).
  • Identifies new technical and business trends and needs, and identifies ideas that can be transformed into solutions that benefit customers / partners, serving as the voice of the customer (VOC) to Microsoft. Ensures input is utilized and solutions for the customer are established at the area level.
  • Coaches team 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. Ensures demonstrations enable customers to identify and resolve technical issues with clear criteria and next steps that guarantee deployment of Microsoft technology.
  • Promotes adaptation and extension of architecture patterns to accommodate complex customer requirements and drive integration solutions for industry flavor.
  • Coaches team to envision new and innovative solutions that use Microsoft technology to meet customer needs. Supports team in coordinating with stakeholders to develop solutions for complex sales scenarios. Ensures team capability to execute on those solutions.
  • Qualifications

    Required Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business 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.
  • 4 to 6 years of proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.
  • 4 to 6 years of experience envisioning solutions in AI-driven business processes and enterprise application modernization, leveraging platforms such as Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Copilot Studio, or other industry-aligned business application frameworks.
  • 4 to 6 years of working knowledge and demonstrated skill implementing AI business process solutions, integrating intelligent automation principles, design patterns, and best practices into the application development lifecycle in an enterprise environment.
  • 4 to 6 years of work experience with Microsoft business application platforms (e.g., Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Copilot Studio) or one or more related technologies such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, or other enterprise-grade business process platforms.
  • Preferred Qualifications

  • 8+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations,
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