Job Overview
Azure Databases SQL Customer Success Engineering seeks a Senior Engineering Architect passionate about Microsoft Data Platform, driving transformational change in customer data landscapes. Azure Database Services accelerate AI and data analytics projects, enabling scalability and optimization of traditional workloads.
This role involves helping customers drive vital data projects, collaborating with partners and Microsoft teams to assist in these opportunities, and contributing to the development cycle by bringing learnings back to product teams.
The team is highly collaborative, data-oriented, and values diversity of thought and ideas, delivering deep technical engagements with customers and unblocking complex data migrations from major RDBMS environments.
The team consists of people from diverse backgrounds, maintaining and growing that diversity to understand customer requirements and individual project needs.
Required Qualifications
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, with relevant experience in enterprise-scale data migration.
* Experience in migrating SQL technologies, from project scoping to data/app migration and final certification and post-migration optimizations.
Preferred Qualifications
* Knowledge of other data technologies from cloud providers like AWS, GCP, IBM, and Oracle Clouds, as well as emerging technologies like Vector Databases, RAG, or New/NoSQL.
* Demonstrated technical thought leadership in customer-facing situations.
* Ability to drive internal engineering conversations on improving Azure Data Services and own this input end-to-end.
Responsibilities
* Promote yourself as a leading SQL Server and Azure SQL Subject Matter Expert through PoCs, pilots, and complex projects, and drive performance tuning and optimization for acute troubleshooting scenarios.
* Mentor and evangelize Azure Data services, engaging in engagements where engineering assistance is required for modernization projects.
* Work with feature PMs and Software Engineers to improve products and services by finding and suggesting improvements and driving changes when needed.
* Document and share learnings and technical best practices within engineering and contribute to key engineering activities.
* Advise on best practice architectures for data solutions and execute quick technical feasibility and proposals for moving identified workloads to Azure Data Platform.
* Evaluate security considerations in all architecture proposals and custom developed IPs and solutions.
Benefits
* Industry-leading healthcare
* Educational resources
* Discounts on products and services
* Savings and investments
* Maternity and paternity leave
* Generous time away
* Giving programs
* Opportunities to network and connect