Cloud & AI Solution Engineer – Data Platform

Microsoft; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a skilled technical sales consultant to drive adoption of their cloud solutions. The role requires deep expertise in Azure Analytics and Databases, and the ability to engage with clients through demos and workshops, resolving technical challenges, and building trusted relationships.

Qualifications

• Proven technical pre-sales or consulting experience is required.
• Expertise in Azure Databases and Analytics platforms.
• Ability to lead technical engagements.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs.
• Lead engagements like hackathons to accelerate cloud adoption.
• Resolve technical blockers in collaboration with engineering.

Skills

Technical pre-sales experience

Cloud platform expertise

Data Governance

Architecture design

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Information Technology

Job description

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

• Proven technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND a few years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND a couple of years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
• OR equivalent experience.
• Expertise in Azure Databases (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL) from migration & modernization and creating new AI applications.
• 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 with integrated Data Security & Governance.
• Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.

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