Overview
Are you insatiably curious, deeply passionate about the realm of Cloud & Data solutions, and ready to tackle complex challenges in a dynamic environment? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Digital Cloud & Data Solution Engineer for mid-market customers at Microsoft. Here, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, working on cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest cloud and data technologies to drive meaningful impact. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
As a Cloud & Data Solution Engineer, you’ll help customers adopt innovations to boost productivity, drive innovation, and become cloud-native. You’ll guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and accelerate database and analytics migration into their deployment workflows. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering leaders and platform teams to accelerate the Azure SQL and Fabric Data Platform, including Cloud & AI Databases and Analytics, through hands-on engagements like Proof of Concepts, hackathons, and architecture workshops.
Responsibilities
* Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
* Lead hands-on engagements—hackathons and architecture workshops—to accelerate adoption of Microsoft’s cloud platforms.
* Build trusted relationships with platform leads, co-designing secure, scalable architectures and solutions.
* Resolve technical blockers and objections, collaborating with engineering to share insights and improve products.
* Maintain proficiency in Analytics Portfolio: Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, DW, real-time intelligence, BI, Copilot), Cloud & AI Databricks, Purview Data Governance and Cloud & AI Databases: SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL.
* Maintain and grow proficiency in on-prem EDW (Teradata, Netezza, Exadata), Hadoop & BI solutions.
* Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in cloud Database & Analytics communities and customer forums.
* Accelerate career growth by leading impactful engagements that help customers modernize their data platforms and adopt cutting-edge cloud and AI technologies.
* Develop strategic influence by guiding customers through secure, scalable data solutions and shaping key technical decisions.
* Strengthen collaboration with engineering teams, platform specialists, and customer stakeholders.
* Build future-ready capabilities through immersive learning, certifications, and exposure to Microsoft’s evolving data and analytics ecosystem.
Qualifications
* Solid technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
* Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
* Proficient on Cloud & AI Databases (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL) with migration and modernization and creating new AI apps.
* Proficient on Cloud & AI Analytics (Fabric, Cloud & AI Databricks, Purview) and competitors (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake) in data warehouse, data lake, big data, analytics, real-time intelligence, and reporting using integrated Data Security & Governance.
* Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.
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.
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