Solution Engineer Manager

We’re seeking a Solution Engineer Manager who will shape strategic win and customer success plans and tailor to audience using knowledge of Microsoft offerings who will proactively identify and engage with key customer technical decision makers and influencers while engaging sales team. In addition, this role has people management responsibilities including driving employee growth and development, executing projects, and managing performance. Acts as a representative for technology domain to all C-suite leaders within local market while engaging with and leveraging local Microsoft senior leadership as appropriate. Uses broad knowledge to build credibility with customers and is sought after for expertise. 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. Leverages in-depth knowledge of resources. Orchestrates team resources and coaches team to maximize impact of customer engagement and drive long-term global strategy through global capacity planning, prioritization, and utilization of resources. Maximizes national/international-level capacity and capabilities and influences future potential partner models by coaching team to grow partner network, identifying gaps, and promoting Microsoft within the Microsoft ecosystem. Supports partner technical capacity by monitoring and analyzing resources through interactions, communicating with managers, and identifying new partnership opportunities to build global strategy. Generates new compete strategies and builds competitive knowledge of team by enabling competitive learning and identifying experts to share knowledge. Coaches and provides support to team and across internal teams to define and execute strategy. The Microsoft Federal organization was established to address the unique mission, legal/regulatory requirements, and procurement rules and processes of the United States Government (USG). Microsoft Federal is committed to ensuring its resources – including appropriately qualified, experienced, and certified personnel (with necessary security clearances or otherwise) are available as needed to meet USG evolving needs. To that end, Microsoft embraces, as a mission-critical philosophy, flexibility in the recruiting, hiring, and workforce assignment of Microsoft Federal personnel. Microsoft Federal personnel can expect to serve in various roles in the Microsoft Federal organization during the course of their career to meet evolving USG needs, regardless of segment – Civilian, Defense, or intelligence community. Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.