Account Technology Strategist

Microsoft

Melbourne

On-site

AUD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A leading technology company in Melbourne is seeking an Account Technology Strategist to drive innovation for the Victorian Government. This role involves developing strategies, fostering executive relationships, and facilitating the adoption of Microsoft technologies to enhance public sector services. Ideal candidates should have experience in technical consulting and an understanding of digital transformation aligned with government needs.

Qualifications

Experience working with customers to drive digital transformation in a technical consulting or technical sales role.
An understanding of how to build a technical strategy and roadmap.
Passion for and a knowledge of a range of technical solutions.

Responsibilities

Support the digital transformation of Government departments through Microsoft technologies.
Strengthen executive customer relationships and create long-term strategies.
Define the customer's technology roadmap and create an execution plan.
Define the customer's technology roadmap and execute initiatives to grow Microsoft solutions.

Skills

Digital transformation

Technical strategy building

Artificial intelligence knowledge

Cyber security understanding

Job description

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Our love for innovation, technology and doing meaningful work, is at the heart of everything we do at Microsoft Australia. It is a shared passion that inspires our team, our partners and customers to think bigger.

The Victorian Government is looking to leverage new technologies to deliver better outcomes for citizens as well as address key challenges such as staffing shortages, growing costs, reduce legacy, and rising citizen expectations. Technologies such as artificial intelligence are providing endless opportunities to transform Government services. Cyber attacks are on the rise, and Government organisations need to become more resilient in order to protect the privacy of their citizen data.

As the Microsoft Account Technology Strategist, you are a key member of the Victorian Government account team and you help your customers develop strategies to address these opportunities and challenges by leveraging Microsoft’s technologies, resources and ecosystem. You will be working with a virtual team of specialists focused on the Government industry, Microsoft partners, and independent software vendors.

This Microsoft Account Technology Strategist for Victorian Government role is perfect for someone who is passionate about the public sector and thrives working with business leaders and technical teams alike, while leveraging your industry, business and technical acumen. As a Microsoft team member and leader, your daily actions will contribute to our inclusive culture. Through this welcoming environment, you will enable your extended technical team to bring their most innovative solutions to client challenges.

Responsibilities

The purpose of the Account Technology Strategist is to support the digital transformation of our Government departments and agencies through the adoption of Microsoft technologies. In partnership with the Account Executive, you will set the strategy to drive your customer’s innovation agenda, ideate with them and inspire them around the possibilities that technology can provide.

As the Account Technology Strategist you will have the opportunity to own and strengthen executive customer relationships, work as a thought leader, create long term strategies linking business, technology and industry needs, and orchestrate teams of technical specialists across Microsoft and our partner network to provide the right solutions to your customer.

You will help define the customer's technology roadmap and create an execution plan to help deliver on the defined initiatives and grow the Microsoft solutions adopted in their environment.

Qualifications

There will be many opportunities for you to learn and grow into this role and Microsoft. However, to be able to best deliver on the purpose of this role, these are the core skills and experiences you should have on day one:

Experience working with customers to drive digital transformation in a technical consulting or technical sales role. It would be valuable if this is with customers such as government departments and agencies, but not essential.
An understanding of how to build a technical strategy and roadmap, gaining executive buy in and orchestrating a team to execute against that plan.
Passion for and a knowledge of a range of technical solutions such as artificial intelligence, cyber security, cloud platforms, business applications and productivity tools.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, colour, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Not Applicable

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Software Development

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