Julien M.

Senior Lead Advanced Data in Azure

United Arab Emirates

About

🚀 Cloud & Digital Transformation Leader | Enterprise Sales & Presales Specialist I am a results-driven Cloud & Digital Transformation Sales Leader with 15+ years of experience in enterprise sales, presales, and cloud solutions across EMEA & SEMEA. I specialize in enabling businesses to adopt modern AI, data, and cloud strategies to accelerate growth and revenue. 💡 What I Do: Drive multi-million-dollar cloud adoption strategies for Azure, AI, and data platforms. Architect and implement presales & solution selling frameworks for enterprise clients. Lead technical sales & go-to-market (GTM) strategies, optimizing business impact. Engage with C-Level decision-makers & enterprise clients to drive cloud adoption. Led high-value enterprise deals ($1M+ each) with strategic clients. 🔹 Key Skills & Certifications: 🎓 Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect, AI Engineer, Data Engineer 🔹 Cloud: Azure, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, AI, NoSQL 🔹 GTM & Sales Strategy: Enterprise Sales, Presales, Stakeholder Management 🚀 Let’s connect! I’m passionate about helping businesses embrace cloud transformation and AI-driven solutions to unlock new growth opportunities.

Experience

  • Microsoft (7 yrs 8 mos)
    • Lead Data Solution Engineer
      Nov 2025 - Present · 9 mos

      Supporting Public Sector customers in the UAE to modernize their data platforms. Partnering with specialists and engineering teams to design secure, scalable data solutions on Azure. Accelerating Data & AI transformation initiatives, driving measurable business outcomes for clients.

    • EMEA Global Black Belt - Advanced Data Specialist
      Jul 2021 - Nov 2025 · 4 yrs 5 mos

      Sales Lead Azure Cloud Data Business for NoSQL/Cosmos DB & Open Source RDBMS in EMEA. I'm helping strategic customers to identify the right managed service open source data platform for their workload, build real time apps and #migrate from legacy platforms. I advise customers in #FSI, #Manufacturing, #Automotive and #Energy to generate competitive advantage utilising bleeding edge Azure technology like #Synapse, #CosmosDB or #PostgreSQL.

    • Technical Specialist Professional for Open Source Data in Azure (Global Black Belt)
      Dec 2018 - Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Senior presales role for Azure PaaS and SaaS solutions : > Cloud architect for Data platforms : Database Services on Azure (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB), NoSQL solutions (Cosmos DB, MongoDB, Cassandra/DataStax), Big Data plaforms (Cloudera, HDInsight). > Accelerate customers data use cases : IoT , payment services, eCommerce... > Deep dive workshops, trainings and MVP for customers, partners and MS employees.

  • Solutions Engineer (Technical Pre-Sales) at DataStax
    Jul 2016 - Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    DataStax Enterprise is the fastest, most scalable distributed database technology, delivering the best distribution of Apache Cassandra™ to the world’s most innovative enterprises including eBay, Netflix, Spotify, Instagram, Google and a host of other F100 customers. Simple to operate and built with architectural flexibility in mind, DataStax integrates enterprise-ready Cassandra, Apache Hadoop™ and Apache Spark™ for analytics and Apache Solr™ for search across multi-datacenters and in the cloud. Elected to the DataStax President's Club 2018 As a Datastax Solutions Engineer I brought a passion for helping to make customers and partners successful working with both developers and non-technical audiences. Solutions typically benefited from technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, Docker and integration with existing legacy and batch (e.g. Oracle, Hadoop) architectures. Role • Qualify customer requirements and articulate DataStax's ability to meet these requirements • Build strategies to drive sales into Enterprise Customers • Ensure the success of customer PoC/Pilots • Partner / Customer education and support

  • Freelance Sitecore Consultant at Self Employed
    Oct 2015 - Jun 2016 · 9 mos

  • Technical Pre-Sales at MongoDB, Inc.
    Sep 2015 - Mar 2016 · 7 mos

  • Technical Pre-Sales at Sitecore
    Jul 2012 - Sep 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    Sitecore is a leading international company providing Web Content Management and Online Engagement application software to businesses. · Technical/Functional presentations and demonstrations · Defining Sitecore architecture/blueprint for customer and partners · Developing CMS relevant (sales) propositions · Develop demo's and POC with sales, product specialist and product development · Support local sales in responding to RFI/RFP · Keep relevant technical/market knowledge up to date · Advise customers & partners on how to best use Sitecore products.