Technical Specialist - Data & AI

Overview

Are you passionate about helping customers transform their businesses? Microsoft is at the forefront of this transformation; come and help organizations rethink aspects of their business in a way that sets them and their people up for success.

The main goal of Microsoft Technolical Specialists (TS) is to win the technical decision of customers to purchase and use Microsoft technology and cloud services, for both Relational and Non-Relational scenarios, open source databases and Azure Analytics platform including Azure Cosmos DB, and Microsoft Fabric. The TS is expected to help the customers, technical evaluators, and decision makers to take the best decisions, as well as find new opportunities through their contacts and engagements for sales specialists to pursue.

As a TS, you work within a virtual team of technical, partner and consulting resources to help educate your customers at a technical level, demonstrate, and prove our solutions, and win the technical decision, allowing the team to achieve/exceed quarterly sales targets in your accounts. Being part of this team will allow you to maintain and develop your deep technical expertise across Microsoft and non-Microsoft cloud-based technologies.

We are seeking a Technical Specialist Data & AI to join our team

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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.

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 infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).

Experience with:

• No
  
  SQL DB understanding and practical hands-on implementation experience at the expert level.
• Azure
  
  Certifications:
  
  Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP 203) or Enterprise Data Analyst Associate (DP 500) or Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty (DP 420) or equivalent industry certifications preferred.
• Competitive Landscape:
  Knowledge of Data and Analytics platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Mongo
  
  DB, Mongo
  
  DB Atlas, Cassandra, Datastax, AWS Dynamo DB, Neo4J, Star Dog, AWS (Redshift), GCP Big query, Teradata, Netezza, Exadata, Apache Spark, Tableau, Qlik, Looker, etc. including financial performance, key messaging, and roadmap.
• Partners:
  Experience leveraging partner solutions to solve customer needs and scale opportunities.
• Experience creating No
  
  SQL and Analytics Proof of Concepts (PoC)/Pilots for customers that lead to production deployments.
• Experience in developing highly optimized application code for No
  
  SQL solutions. Working knowledge with C#, Java, NodeJS, Python languages for No
  
  SQL implementation. Knowledge of Open-Source DB (Azure Database for Postgre
  
  SQL/MySQL, Azure Redis Cache) solutions.
• Deep domain knowledge in No
  
  SQL & Analytics Platforms (Azure Synapse, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Power BI), No
  
  SQL DB (Azure Cosmos DB, Mongo
  
  DB + Mongo DB Atlas and Open Source DB OR hands-on experience working with the respective products at the expert level. 3+ years of hands-on programming experience (Scala, Python, SQL etc.)
• Relationship Building:
  Proven track record of building deep technical…