Senior Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Data Platform

OverviewAre you insatiably curious, deeply passionate about the realm of databases and analytics, and ready to tackle complex challenges in a dynamic environment in the era of AI? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer for modern Data Platforms for our commercial customers at Microsoft. Here, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, working on cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies to drive scalable business impact. Join us and be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.With your technical expertise you will be designing and planning the deployment of modern and secure data platforms for customers as the foundation to let customers fully realize the potential of AI. Technologywise, a rich portfolio of products including PaaS and IaaS services on the Azure Platform in the age of AI are part of your portfolio. These technologies empower customers to build, deploy, and manage database and analytics applications in a cloud-native way.As a Data Platform Solution Engineer (SE), you will play a pivotal role in helping enterprises unlock the full potential of AI and Microsoft’s cloud database and analytics stack across every stage of deployment. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering leaders and platform teams to accelerate the Fabric Data Platform, including Azure Databases and Analytics, through hands-on engagements like hackathons, architecture design workshops and pilots. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, hone your technical skills, and become adept at solution design and deployment. You’ll guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and accelerate database and analytics migration into their deployment workflows. In summary, you’ll help customers scope and plan the modernization their data platform and realize the full value of Microsoft’s platform, all while enjoying flexible work opportunities.Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.ResponsibilitiesDrive technical sales with customer business and technical decision makers using demos and pilots to influence solution design, maximize business value and enable production deployments.Lead hands-on engagements—pilots and architecture workshops—to accelerate adoption of Microsoft’s cloud platforms.Build trusted relationships with customer platform leads, co-designing secure, scalable architectures and solutionsResolve technical blockers and objections, collaborating with engineering to share insights and improve products.Maintain deep expertise in Analytics Portfolio: Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, DW, real-time intelligence, BI, Copilot), Azure Databricks, Purview Data Governance and Azure Databases: SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL.Maintain and grow expertise in on-prem EDW (Teradata, Netezza, Exadata), Hadoop & BI solutions.Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in cloud Database & Analytics communities and customer forumsQualificationsRequired Qualifications:Proven technical pre-sales or technical consulting experienceOR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field solid technical pre-sales or technical consulting experienceOR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND technical pre-sales or technical consulting experienceOR equivalent experienceExpert on Azure Databases (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL) from migration & modernize and creating new AI apps.Expert on Azure Analytics (Fabric, Azure Databricks, Purview) and competitors (BigQuery, Redshift etc.) in data warehouse, data lake, big data, analytics, real-time intelligent, and reporting using integrated Data Security & Governance.Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g. scoping, architecture sessions, pilots, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.Fluency in English languagePreferred QualificationsStrong technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experienceProven experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology managementProficient on data warehouse & big data migration including on-prem appliance (Teradata, Netezza, Oracle), Hadoop (Cloudera, Hortonworks).In line with our Flexible Work approach, for roles at Microsoft Germany and Austria, we recommend spending at least two days per week in the office or at the customer site. The actual number of days to work from the office or at the customer will be defined in agreement between the employee and their manager.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. 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