About this role

Overview Are you curious, enthusiastic about infrastructure, and ready to solve complex challenges in the Frontier AI era? Are you insatiably curious, deeply passionate about the realm of databases and analytics, and ready to tackle complex challenges in a dynamic environment in the era of Agentic AI? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer for commercial customers at Microsoft. In this technical sales role, you'll be at the forefront of cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies to drive meaningful impact. Join us and be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.You will collaborate across teams to deliver impactful solutions that enhance agility, reduce costs, and unlock value through AI-powered solutions.As a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in helping enterprises:<ul style="margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm;"><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Modernize their Platform Estate, including hardware, software, applications, databases, security and networking with the full value of Microsoft’s cloud. You will work directly with technical and business stakeholders to design secure, scalable, resilient, compliant, and sovereign architectures that support business-critical applications and Frontier AI transformation. As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll guide customers and win their technical decisions on Azure solutions and deployment. You bring deep expertise in migrating core workloads—including Windows, Linux, and Oracle—to Azure. Beyond migration, you lead customers through modernization using the 6R strategy, containerization best practices, and Azure-native services like AKS, while exploring how Agentic AI and Tooling (e.g., Azure Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Agentic Assessment) can accelerate Frontier transformation. You complement this with strong networking knowledge to design hybrid and cloud-native solutions, including virtual networks, VPNs, secure routing architectures and trusted partner solutions to ensure secure, optimized, and scalable solutions.</li></ul> <ul style="margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm;"><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Unlock the full potential of Microsoft’s cloud database and analytics stack across every stage of deployment. You will work directly with technical and business stakeholders to design secure, scalable, and resilient database and analytics architectures that support business-critical applications and Frontier AI transformation. As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll guide customers and win their technical decisions on Azure for their database and analytics deployment. You bring deep expertise in database and analytics workloads—including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, and Azure Databases SQL DB, Cosmos DB, DocumentDB, PostgreSQL while exploring how Agentic AI can accelerate Frontier transformation.</li></ul> As you join the team, you will have the opportunity to accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, hone your technical skills, and become adept at solution design and deployment. In summary, you’ll help customers modernize their platforms to realize the full value of Microsoft’s platform, all while enjoying flexible work opportunities. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Responsibilities <ul style="margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm;"><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Lead Platform Estate modernization / Databases & Analytics / Agentic AI application platforms customer engagements.</li><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments. </li><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Drive technical workshop using live demos, co-create with customers whiteboarding & architecture, rapid prototyping, hands-on proofs of concept & pilots to resolve technical blockers.</li><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Prove technical solutions, co-create or re-use existing architecture to influence solution design and enable customer commitment for deployments.</li><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Maintain deep expertise in <ul style="margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm;"><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Cloud migration (Windows, Linux, app workloads), resiliency, security, and compliance.</li><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Analytics Portfolio: Microsoft Fabric including OneLake, Azure Databricks, Azure Databases: SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, and Hadoop & BI solutions.</li></ul></li></ul> Qualifications <ul style="margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm;"><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience <ul style="list-style-type: circle; margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm;"><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience </li><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience </li><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">OR equivalent experience</li></ul></li><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Proven experience in: <ul style="list-style-type: circle; margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm;"><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Cloud infrastructure, including migration of workloads such as Windows, Linux, VM.</li><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Designing or selling solutions involving hybrid networking, secure connectivity, or network performance optimization in enterprise environments.</li><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Microsoft Fabric including OneLake, Azure Databricks and competitors (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake) in data warehouse, data lake, big data, analytics, real-time intelligent, and reporting using integrated Data Security & Governance.</li><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Azure Databases (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, DocumentDB, PostgreSQL) for migration & modernization.</li></ul></li><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., prototyping, pilot, PoCs) that drive production-scale outcomes.</li></ul> Preferred Qualifications (PQs) <ul style="margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm;"><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">9+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience<ul style="list-style-type: circle; margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm;"><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">OR equivalent experience</li></ul></li><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">6+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management</li><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Proficient on:<ul style="list-style-type: circle; margin-top: 0.0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0cm;"><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Agentic AI platform design, patterns, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management</li><li style="margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 10.0px;">Proficient on database technologies (ETL, DW, Reporting)</li></ul></li></ul> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>