• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Microsoft ABS Solution Architects supporting presales and strategic pursuits. • Establish best practices, standards, and repeatable presales motions across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Copilot, and Contact Center solutions. • Drive asset and accelerator development (e.g., reference architectures, demo environments, solution playbooks, proposal content, and reusable IP) to improve sales velocity and consistency. • Create and drive multi-practice opportunities by collaborating across CX, Data & AI, Azure, and Managed Services teams. • Partner closely with Delivery leadership to ensure solution designs are feasible, scalable, and aligned to delivery excellence. • Stay current on Microsoft product roadmaps, licensing changes, and industry trends to keep the practice market-leading. • Partner with sales leadership to uncover customer business challenges and map them to Microsoft AI Business Solutions. • Lead solutioning for complex opportunities, including executive-level presentations, whiteboarding sessions, and value-based storytelling. • Develop and deliver high-quality responses to RFPs and RFIs aligned to customer goals, Microsoft best practices, and competitive differentiation. • Act as a trusted advisor to clients, guiding them through modernization, AI adoption, and digital transformation journeys. • Architect scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions using various Microsoft products.

• Collaborating with the Account Executive to thoroughly understand the prospect's technical environment, Cloud Data Platform cost challenges, cost optimization goals, and key business objectives through in-depth technical discovery sessions. • Owning and driving the technical validation and Proof of Value (POV) exercises for SELECT. This includes meticulous POC preparation, proactive management, and ensuring successful technical outcomes, demonstrating clear value and alignment with prospect requirements. • Tailoring and delivering compelling SELECT platform demonstrations to prospects, effectively showcasing its capabilities and addressing their specific use cases and concerns. • Leveraging your analytical skills and deep understanding of Cloud Data Platform to develop compelling business cases and robust ROI analyses that clearly articulate the tangible value, cost savings, and performance improvements achievable with SELECT. • Becoming the go-to expert within the company for SELECT, ensuring prospects achieve optimal results and a seamless implementation experience. • Taking full ownership of the technical win for SELECT engagements, guiding prospects through the technical evaluation process, addressing all technical requirements, and building technical confidence in the solution. • Representing DoiT and SELECT at company events and industry conferences, delivering engaging presentations and demonstrations to a wider audience, showcasing our Snowflake/Databricks (and soon BigQuery) optimization expertise as well as platform capabilities. • Translate customer pain points and feature gaps into structured, technically credible input for R&D teams. Represent the voice of the technical customer in roadmap discussions. • Ensure timely entry of data into internal business support solutions. Contribute to systems and tools to provide key business information and metrics to highlight performance and effectiveness.

• Collaborating with the Account Executive to thoroughly understand the prospect's technical environment, Cloud Data Platform cost challenges, cost optimization goals, and key business objectives through in-depth technical discovery sessions. • Owning and driving the technical validation and Proof of Value (POV) exercises for SELECT. This includes meticulous POC preparation, proactive management, and ensuring successful technical outcomes, demonstrating clear value and alignment with prospect requirements. • Tailoring and delivering compelling SELECT platform demonstrations to prospects, effectively showcasing its capabilities and addressing their specific use cases and concerns. • Leveraging your analytical skills and deep understanding of Cloud Data Platform to develop compelling business cases and robust ROI analyses that clearly articulate the tangible value, cost savings, and performance improvements achievable with SELECT. • Becoming the go-to expert within the company for SELECT, ensuring prospects achieve optimal results and a seamless implementation experience. • Taking full ownership of the technical win for SELECT engagements, guiding prospects through the technical evaluation process, addressing all technical requirements, and building technical confidence in the solution. • Representing DoiT and SELECT at company events and industry conferences, delivering engaging presentations and demonstrations to a wider audience, showcasing our Snowflake/Databricks (and soon BigQuery) optimization expertise as well as platform capabilities. • Translate customer pain points and feature gaps into structured, technically credible input for R&D teams. Represent the voice of the technical customer in roadmap discussions. • Ensure timely entry of data into internal business support solutions. Contribute to systems and tools to provide key business information and metrics to highlight performance and effectiveness.

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What is The Role As a Solution Architect at Elastic, you help customers and partners design, implement, and optimize solutions using the Elastic Stack. Working closely with our Inside Sales team you act as a technical expert, guiding them through architecture decisions, deployment strategies, and best practices. What You Will Be Doing - Collaborate with account teams to understand customer requirements. - Conduct technical discovery sessions and solution workshops. - Design architectures for search, observability, and security use cases. - Deliver product demonstrations and proof-of-concepts. - Assist with deployment planning and configuration. - Provide guidance on scaling, performance tuning, and security. - Document solutions and share technical knowledge internally and externally. What You Bring - Solid understanding of distributed systems and data indexing/search. - Experience in a technical customer-facing role. - Ability to map business needs to technical solutions. - Strong problem-solving and communication skills. - Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). - Fluent in English. Bonus Points - - Experience with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash) or similar technologies. - Experience in observability, security analytics, or enterprise search. - Knowledge of scripting or programming (Python, Java, etc.). - Understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines. Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do. We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do. - Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary - Health coverage for you and your family in many locations - Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles - Generous number of vacation days each year - Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service - Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love - Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. 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