Senior Cloud & AI Solution Engineer - Data Platform

Microsoft; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the City of London is seeking a technical sales expert to drive cloud platform adoption. The role involves leading engagements, building relationships, and ensuring successful technical outcomes for customers. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in pre-sales and a strong background in cloud technologies, particularly Azure. This position offers competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• Proven technical pre-sales or consulting experience.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Analytics Portfolio.
• Expertise with on-prem EDW and BI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical sales using demos and PoCs.
• Lead hackathons and architecture workshops.
• Build trusted relationships with platform leads.

Skills

Technical pre-sales experience

Expertise on Azure Databases

Expertise on Azure Analytics

Ability to lead technical engagements

Education

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

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 relevant experience OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND relevant experience OR equivalent experience.
• Expertise on Azure Databases (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL) from migration & modernization and creating new AI applications.
• Expertise on 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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

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