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Senior Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Data Platform

Microsoft· Solution Engineering
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Hybrid (United States)$106.4k - $203.6kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Data Platform at Microsoft. Focus on helping enterprises modernize data platforms using Microsoft’s cloud database and analytics stack, including Azure Databases, Analytics, Fabric, and related services. Engages in technical pre-sales, PoCs, architecture workshops, and hands-on engagements to accelerate adoption and deployment of Microsoft cloud platforms.

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 knowledge 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 knowledge in on-prem EDW (Teradata, Netezza, Exadata), Hadoop & BI solutions.
  • Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in cloud Database & Analytics communities and customer forums
  • Embody our culture and values in daily work and collaboration

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.

Skills

Required:Demonstrations and PoCsArchitecture workshopsCloud and hybrid infrastructure design
Nice to have:Data analytics technologiesProgramming languagesTechnical Certification in Cloud
Last updated Aug 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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