US Education, Customer Success Unit Territories: Idaho, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Data Platform Cloud Solution Architect to drive high priority customer initiatives on the Microsoft Data Platform in collaboration with customers and the Microsoft field in strategic accounts segment of our business. This is a customer facing role, owning overall technical relationship between customer and Microsoft Data Platform (on premises and Azure). You will own the Data Platform technical customer engagement including: architectural design sessions, specific implementation projects and/or Pilots. The ideal candidate will have experience in customer facing roles and success leading deep technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, IT Management and Developers to drive cloud deployment and modernization plans.
Understand customer's overall data estate, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions (Microsoft and 3rd party solutions) Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a data modernization roadmap and architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, orchestrating key resources and infusing key data technologies (e.g. Azure Data Services like Azure SQL DB, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL DW, and SQL Server) Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision
Required: Breadth of technical experience and knowledge as well as depth in one or two of the following areas: Commercial and Open Source on-prem and in cloud: Database architecture , ETL, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Big Data, Data Governance Deep understanding of data platform technologies, upgrading to modern SQL Server releases, migrating competitive databases to SQL Server, Cortana Intelligence, Microsoft BI technologies, and emerging computing trends 5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects (where necessary, managing various stakeholder relationships