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Director, Enterprise CE Presales Architect

UKRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Aug 2026

About the role

Through passion and deep industry expertise, MCA Connect helps manufacturers succeed by unlocking innovation with actionable business insights. Our strategic solutions, innovation, and industry intelligence help manufacturers gain visibility, improve profitability, and achieve a competitive edge.

Established in 2002, MCA Connect has grown into one of the largest US-based solution partners in Microsoft Business Applications and Azure Data & AI / Digital & App Innovation. Our Microsoft Specialties include Finance and Supply Chain, Analytics on Azure, Data Warehouse Migration, and Power Platform. We’re also a fifteen-time Microsoft Partner of the Year and three-time Inc. Best Workplaces award winner.

Title Director, Enterprise CE Presales Architect

Location Remote with travel up to 50%

Description 

The Enterprise CE Presales Architect leads enterprise CRM/CX pursuits from qualification through sales-to-delivery handoff. This role shapes the client vision, solution narrative, scope, estimates, assumptions, risks, and delivery approach for strategic D365 CE and Power Platform opportunities, with a focus on winning larger, more complex transformation programs while protecting delivery quality and commercial integrity. 

Core Responsibilities 

Lead CE/CX pursuit strategy for strategic opportunities, including qualification, discovery planning, executive narrative, solution storyboard, demo strategy, ROM estimate, proposal approach, and handoff readiness.

Facilitate client discovery sessions with executives and functional leaders to clarify vision, business outcomes, pain areas, capability priorities, operating constraints, and success measures.

Create compelling solution narratives across Dynamics 365 Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, Customer Insights, Power Platform, Copilot, analytics, integrations, data migration, adoption, and managed services considerations.

Own or coordinate estimate development, assumptions, exclusions, delivery model, timeline, staffing plan, margin considerations, and risk review for CE/CX pursuits.

Own large-deal pursuit quality for strategic CE opportunities, including commercial assumptions, delivery feasibility, margin awareness, implementation risks, and readiness for sales-to-delivery transition.

Partner with sales, delivery, functional architects, technical architects, industry SMEs, Microsoft, and GT stakeholders to produce an integrated pursuit strategy.

Build reusable presales assets including discovery guides, demo scripts, proposal sections, SOW building blocks, estimation drivers, assumptions libraries, case studies, and handoff templates.

Implement lightweight presales governance including stage gates, pursuit review cadence, estimate QA, proposal QA, deal desk escalation, and sales-to-delivery handoff quality.

Maintain selective billable involvement in strategic advisory, architecture validation, delivery mobilization, or executive design workshops so presales recommendations remain grounded in real delivery experience.

Represent MCA Connect in executive-level client conversations, Microsoft co-sell motions, GT collaboration discussions, webinars, workshops, and strategic account planning.

Required Skills and Experience 