Cloud & AI Digital Solution Engineer – Innovative Data Platform

Microsoft; Kuwait City; On-site; KWD 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a technical sales professional with a strong background in cloud solutions and analytics. The role involves driving technical engagements, building customer relationships, and showcasing Microsoft’s cloud offerings to deliver impactful solutions. Ideal candidates will have considerable experience in technical pre-sales or consulting, particularly focusing on Azure products and analytics tools. Join this dynamic team and contribute to exciting cloud deployments within various industries.

Qualifications

• 5+ years technical pre-sales or consulting experience or equivalent.
• Expert on Azure Databases and Analytics with proven engagement abilities.
• Experience with on-prem infrastructure and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical sales and influence solution design through demos.
• Lead hands-on engagements like hackathons and architecture workshops.
• Maintain expertise in Microsoft cloud platforms and resolve technical blockers.

Skills

Technical Pre-sales

Technical Consulting

Cloud Solutions

Analytics Expertise

Data Security & Governance

Architecture Design

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Azure Databases

Azure Analytics

Hadoop

Teradata

Azure Synapse Gen2

Job description

Responsibilities (Text Only)

• 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 (Text Only)

Required Qualifications

• 5+ 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR equivalent experience
• Expert on Azure Databases (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL) from migration & modernize and creating new AI apps.
• Expert 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 using integrated Data Security & Governance.
• Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience
• OR equivalent experience
• 4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management
• Proficient on data warehouse & big data migration including on-prem appliance (Teradata, Netezza, Oracle), Hadoop (Cloudera, Hortonworks) and Azure Synapse Gen2.

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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