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Job Summary:

Microsoft is a leading technology company that empowers every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. They are seeking a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer for their Innovative Data Platform, responsible for driving technical sales and helping enterprises unlock the potential of Microsoft’s cloud database and analytics stack.

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 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 forums

Qualifications:

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

• Expert 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, Snowflake) 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., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.

Preferred:

• 4+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience

• OR equivalent experience

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

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

Company:

Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Founded in 1975, the company is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Public Company.