Azure Solution Area Specialist

Kuwait, Al 'Asimah, Kuwait

Date posted

Oct 08, 2025

Job number

1889776

Work site

4 days / week in-office

Travel

0-25%

Role type

Individual Contributor

Profession

Sales

Discipline

Solution Area Specialists

Employment type

Full-Time

Are you insatiably curious, passionate about helping customers solve complex challenges, and ready to drive real impact in a dynamic environment? Join us as a Solution Specialist at Microsoft, where you'll be the catalyst for Azure's growth by empowering organisations to adopt AI, embrace data-driven strategies, and modernise their applications with cloud-native solutions.

As an Azure Solution Specialist, your mission is to influence critical customer decisions by demonstrating the unmatched value of Microsoft's cloud services. You'll serve as a trusted advisor, helping organisations adopt Azure for their core workloads, tools, data strategies, and AI initiatives. Leading the way in cloud-native architecture, you'll design solutions that deliver scalability, automation, cost efficiency, and advanced data and AI capabilities.

You'll inspire and guide developer teams to adopt modern practices and build transformative cloud solutions, while orchestrating resources across sales, technical, partner, and consulting teams to ensure seamless execution and exceptional customer outcomes. By driving sales growth and accelerating usage and consumption in your territory, you'll be the go-to expert customers rely on to navigate cloud application development, unlock data-driven insights, and harness the transformative power of AI.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realise our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND extensive experience in technology-related sales or account management or account management OR equivalent experience AND solid solution or services sales experience AND knowledge and expertise in Cloud Solutions

• Collaborative: Engage with Decision Makers to create a shared vision. Understand the customer's business challenges and opportunities to establish credibility and trust, demonstrating that Microsoft solutions not only solve customer business problems but also realize the business value of our solutions.
• Solution Design and Proof: Lead the solution design by becoming proficient in delivering Microsoft vision, strategy, and value to C-level and Apps Decision Makers. Orchestrate the experts to create the solution, validate it via Proof of Concept, and showcase how it meets customer business and technology requirements.
• Sales Leadership: Drive the Azure business to exceed revenue, consumption, and scorecard targets. Maintain excellence in pipeline management, accuracy of sales forecast, and deal close plans.
• Deal Orchestration: Substantiate the value of the solution by building business cases with Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis and negotiate deals based on value. Secure customer commitment for business proposals.
• Customer Centricity: Be the Voice of the customer and influence go-to-market strategies by providing feedback on product requirements and sales blockers.
• Build Strategy: Maintain and grow expertise across the Microsoft Cloud, including infrastructure, data, AI, and developer technologies. Stay current with industry trends to deliver informed, relevant guidance.
• Partner Engagement: Identify customer's digital transformation needs, business drivers, their perspective, and concerns. Establish and understand the buying decision criteria and timeline to make decisions regarding the solution.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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Industry leading healthcare

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Educational resources

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Discounts on products and services

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Savings and investments

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Maternity and paternity leave

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Generous time away

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Giving programs

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Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.