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Microsoft · 2 weeks ago

Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Data Platform

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$85K/yr - $170K/yr

3+ years exp

Microsoft is seeking a Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Data Platform to join their Innovative Data Platform team. The role involves driving technical sales and accelerating the adoption of Microsoft’s cloud database and analytics stack through hands-on engagements and collaboration with engineering leaders.

Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

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 deep knowledge 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 knowledge in on-prem EDW (Teradata, Netezza, Exadata), Hadoop & BI solutions

Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in cloud Database & Analytics communities and customer forums

Qualification

Cloud architecture designData migrationTechnical consultingAzure DatabasesAnalytics PortfolioCollaborationProblem solvingCommunication

Required

3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience, OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship

Preferred

5+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience

3+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management

Experience in data warehouse & big data migration including on-prem appliance (Teradata, Netezza, Oracle), Hadoop (Cloudera, Hortonworks) and Azure Synapse Gen2