1 day ago
Toronto, Canada +3 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Drive technical sales with decision makers through demos and proofs of concept that influence solution design and enable production deployments.
- Lead hands-on hackathons and architecture workshops to accelerate adoption of Microsoft cloud platforms.
- Build trusted relationships with platform leads and co-design secure, scalable architectures and solutions.
- Resolve technical blockers and objections while collaborating with engineering teams to share customer insights and improve products.
- Maintain expertise across Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Purview, Azure Databases, on-premises data warehouses, Hadoop, and business intelligence solutions.
- Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in cloud database and analytics communities and customer forums.
Requirements
- A master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field plus 4+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience, or a bachelor's degree in those fields plus 6+ years, or 7+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: 8+ years of technical pre-sales, technical consulting, technology delivery, or related experience.
- Preferred: 6+ years working with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises infrastructure, architecture design, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
- Relevant certifications such as Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, cloud platform technologies, information security, or architecture are preferred.
- Expertise in Azure Databases, including SQL DB, Cosmos DB, and PostgreSQL, for migration, modernization, and new AI applications is preferred.
- Expertise in Azure Analytics, including Fabric, Azure Databricks, Purview, data warehouses, data lakes, big data, real-time intelligence, reporting, and integrated data security and governance, is preferred.
- Experience with competing platforms such as BigQuery, Redshift, and Snowflake is preferred.
- Ability to lead technical engagements such as hackathons, proofs of concept, and MVPs that produce production-scale outcomes is preferred.
- Experience with data warehouse and big data migration involving Teradata, Netezza, Oracle, Hadoop, Cloudera, Hortonworks, and Azure Synapse Gen2 is preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible work opportunities are available.
- The position is open for a minimum of five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the role is filled.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.