Overview
Azure Databases SQL Customer Success Engineering is looking for a Senior Engineering Architect who is passionate about the entire Microsoft Data Platform and its potential to enable transformational change at our customers. Azure Database Services are proven cornerstones of many of our largest customers' data landscapes.
We are helping accelerate customers' largest projects in new and exciting areas such as AI and data analytics, as well as enabling further scalability and optimization of traditional transactional workloads. In this role, you'll be helping our customers drive vital transformational data projects and working alongside our customers, partners, and Microsoft's various field, sales, and engineering teams to assist in these opportunities as well as directly white-gloving complex and strategic SQL Server, Oracle, and OSS database workload modernizations.
In this role, you will also be directly contributing back to the continuous development cycle in our core database services by bringing the learnings and observations gathered in these complex engagements back to our wider product teams in order to drive important product development.
The Azure Databases SQL Customer Success Engineering team is highly collaborative, data-oriented, and greatly values diversity of thought and ideas. We have a proven track record of delivering deep technical engagements with our customers and helping unblock and accelerate complex data migrations from major RDBMS environments such as SQL Server, db2, Sybase, and Oracle to Azure SQL or Azure PostgreSQL.
Our team consists of people from a wide variety of backgrounds as well as professional and life experiences. We are focused on maintaining and growing that diversity as we are certain it makes us better able to understand better the requirements of our diverse customers and their individual projects. To learn more about our team, check out this.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field relevant experience in the area or equivalent experience.
Enterprise-scale data migration experience from SQL technologies, starting from project scoping to data/app migration and final certification and post-migration optimizations.
Preferred Qualifications:
Knowledge of other data technologies from other cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, IBM, and Oracle Clouds as well as other emerging technologies such as Vector Databases, RAG, or New/NoSQL.
Demonstrated technical thought leadership in customer-facing situations.
Ability to drive deep internal engineering conversations on potential strategy toward improving our Azure Data Services and own this input end to end.
Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Responsibilities
Promote and position yourself as a leading SQL Server and Azure SQL Subject Matter Expert through engaging in PoCs, pilots, and complex projects as well as driving performance tuning and optimization for acute troubleshooting scenarios.
Work closely with both generalist and specialist solution architects to mentor and evangelize Azure Data services as well as engage in engagements where engineering assistance is required for modernization projects.
Work with feature PMs and Software Engineers from other Azure Database teams to improve our products and services by finding and suggesting well-researched improvements and taking charge of driving these changes when needed.
Document and share learnings and technical best practices/insights within engineering as well as the wider architect community and contribute to key engineering activities such as telemetry, code, and design specification reviews.
Advise on best practice architectures for data relevant solutions and execute quick technical feasibility and proposals for moving identified workloads to Azure Data Platform.
Ensure security is front and center of all architecture proposals and work as well as a cornerstone of all custom developed IPs and solutions.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work:
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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