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Solution Engineering Manager

Microsoft

Microsoft

Madrid, Spain
Posted on Dec 12, 2025
Overview

Imagine leading in an environment where your ideas matter and your expertise shapes the future. At Microsoft, you’ll work alongside intelligent, motivated colleagues in a worldclass technical sales organisation that thrives on innovation and collaboration.

This role is about impact. You’ll bring industry insights and cuttingedge technology into strategic customer engagements, guiding conversations that influence decisions and drive meaningful outcomes. Your leadership will empower a talented team to deliver exceptional solutions and champion sales excellence.

You’ll have the opportunity to grow personally and professionally in a culture that values learning and continuous improvement. From coaching your team on Microsoft’s technology differentiators to fostering collaboration across account teams, partners, and product engineering, you’ll be at the centre of creating business value and shaping customer success.

Find out more about our culture and values, and the environment you will be working in.



Responsibilities

As manager of the Solution Engineer Team for the Cloud and AI Platform technologies you will be a transformative leader, responsible for:

  • Building competitive knowledge of the team by enabling competitive learning and identifying experts to share knowledge.
  • Maintaining communications with internal partners on highest potential customers to pre-align technical resources to customer and customer cases based on account planning and priorities.
  • Working with local marketing and account teams to shape strategic win and customer success plans and tailor to audience for the local markets.
  • Ensuring team members participate in tech communities and drive feedback to improve overall team member experience and effectiveness at subsidiary level.
  • Enabling and empowering your team to develop technical expertise and provide technical insights to internal teams.
  • Supporting partner technical capacity by monitoring and analysing resources through interactions, communicating with managers, and identifying new partnership opportunities to build subsidiary strategy.
  • Proactively identifying and engaging with key customer technical decision makers and influencers while engaging sales team.
  • Applying advanced sales methodologies and coaching the team in guiding customers through digital transformation solutions and using innovation to challenge solutions against changing technology


Qualifications

Your unique skills and attributes will position you well for a successful career in Microsoft. Some of the key knowledge, skills and abilities that will enable you to have an impact in this role include:

  • Significant work experience in designing/implementing information technology solutions, technical sales and/or consulting
  • Experience leading and working in blended, multidisciplinary teams
  • The ability to explain complex technical concepts to senior decision makers coupled with a strong business and sales mindset
  • Familiarity with the Microsoft cloud portfolio
  • Fluency in English and Spanish, and able to use both in a business environment
  • A relevant Bachelor's or Master’s degree (e.g. computer science, information technology, software engineering, or similar) or comparable work experience

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.




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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.