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 Qualifications (RQs)
* Solid technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
* OR Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
* Equivalent experience.
* Expertise in Azure Databases (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL) from migration & modernize and creating new AI apps.
* Expertise in Azure Analytics (Fabric, Azure 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.
Preferred Qualifications (PQs)
* Solid experience with cloud and hybrid, or on-premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
* Proficient in data warehouse & big data migration including on-premise appliances (Teradata, Netezza, Oracle), Hadoop (Cloudera, Hortonworks), and Azure Synapse Gen2.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
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