Solution Engineer - Data & AI

Microsoft; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is looking for a Technical Consultant to drive technical sales and engagements around its cloud platforms. The role involves building strong relationships with clients, leading workshops, and resolving technical challenges. Candidates should have significant experience in technical pre-sales and cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of related experience in technical pre-sales or consulting.
• 4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
• Expertise in Azure Databases and Analytics.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical sales with demos to influence solution design.
• Lead hackathons and architecture workshops for cloud adoption.
• Build trusted relationships co-designing secure architectures.

Skills

Technical pre-sales

Technical consulting

Architecture design

Cloud infrastructure

Data governance

Real-time intelligence

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Azure Databases

Azure Analytics

Microsoft Fabric

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 & AI solutions.
• Represent Microsoft through leadership in cloud Data & AI communities and customer forums.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience, or
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years of technical pre-sales or consulting experience, or
• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years of technical pre-sales or 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 using 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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