Cloud & AI Solution Engineer – Innovative Data Platform

Microsoft; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Microsoft is seeking a skilled technical pre-sales consultant to drive sales and engagement for its cloud platforms. The role involves leading technical projects, building client relationships, and showcasing solutions. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in Azure technologies and analytics, along with strong interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical pre-sales or consulting experience.
• Expert on Azure Databases and Analytics platforms.
• Proven ability to lead technical engagements.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical sales with demos and PoCs.
• Lead hands-on engagements to accelerate cloud adoption.
• Build trusted relationships and co-design solutions.

Skills

Technical pre-sales

Technical consulting

Azure Databases

Data warehouse migration

Big data analytics

Data Security & Governance

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Computer Science

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 (RQs): - 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+ year(s) 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 intelligent, and reporting using integrated Data Security & Governance. - Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes. Preferred Qualifications (PQs): - 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.If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a requestvia the Accommodation request form. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.