Microsoft

Data Platform Solution Engineer

Microsoft$106K — $203K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 3-4 years of relevant technical pre-sales or consulting experience.
  • At least 6 years of related experience for preferred qualifications.
  • 4+ years with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises architecture and migrations.
  • Certification in technologies like Azure or Power BI is preferred.
  • 4+ years of Azure experience, with expertise in Azure SQL DB, Cosmos DB, and PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical sales through architecture design sessions and demonstrations.
  • Lead hands-on workshops like hackathons to promote Microsoft cloud adoption.
  • Build relationships with platform leads to co-design scalable architectures.
  • Resolve technical obstacles, collaborating with engineering for insights and improvements.
  • Maintain expertise in Microsoft's Analytics Portfolio and Azure databases.
  • Showcase influence in cloud database and analytics communities through thought leadership.

Benefits

  • Flexible work opportunities for better work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Overview

As an Innovative Data Platform Solution Engineer (SE), you will play a pivotal role in helping enterprises unlock the full potential of 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 Proof of Concepts, hackathons, and architecture workshops. 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 modernize their data platform and realize the full value of Microsoft's platform, all while enjoying flexible work opportunities.

As a trusted technical advisor, 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 modernize their data platform and realize the full value of Microsoft's platform.

Responsibilities
  • Drive technical sales with decision makers using architecture design sessions, customized demonstrations and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
  • Lead hands-on engagements-hackathons and rapid prototypes 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, PowerBI, Fabric Data Agents), Azure Databricks, Purview Data Governance and Azure Databases: SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL.
  • Maintain expertise in Microsoft Foundry and Azure Machine Learning.
  • Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in cloud Database & Analytics communities and customer forums.


Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
    • OR 5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
    • OR equivalent experience.


Additional or preferred qualifications

  • 6+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
  • Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).
  • 5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
    • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
    • OR equivalent experience


  • 4+ years experience with Azure cloud.
  • Expert on Azure Databases (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL) from migration & modernize and creating new AI apps.
  • Expert on Azure Analytics including data lakes, data warehousing, and reporting, (Fabric, Azure Databricks and PowerBI) and competitors (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake).
  • Familiar with building Agentic AI solutions using Microsoft Foundry.
  • Familiar with building Machine Learning solutions using Azure Machine Learning.
  • Proficient in SQL Syntax, PySpark, Python and C#.
  • Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., Architecture Design Sessions, Rapid Prototyping, Hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.
  • Solid presentation skills across Business Decision Makers and Technical Decision Maker audiences.


Solution Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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