Microsoft
Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Data Platform
$86K–$223K
United States · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Experience
- Required: 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting; alternatives are a relevant bachelor's degree plus 2+ years, a relevant master's degree plus 1+ year, or equivalent experience. Preferred: 5+ years in technical pre-sales, consulting, technology delivery, or related work, or equivalent experience; also 3+ years in cloud, hybrid, or on-premises infrastructure and architecture areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field; alternatively, Master's Degree in those fields or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Not eligible for visa sponsorship; candidates must have U.S. work authorization that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship.
About the job
Guides commercial customers in designing and deploying secure, scalable cloud database and analytics solutions, driving technical sales, adoption, and migration across Microsoft’s data platform.
What you'll do
- Drive technical sales through demos and proofs of concept, and lead hackathons and architecture workshops to enable adoption and production deployments.
- Co-design customer architectures, resolve technical blockers with engineering, and accelerate database and analytics migrations.
- Maintain expertise in Microsoft’s analytics and database portfolio and represent Microsoft in customer and industry forums.
What they ask for
- 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience; alternatively, a relevant bachelor's degree and 2+ years, a relevant master's degree and 1+ year, or equivalent experience.
- Authorization to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.
Nice to have
- 5+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, technology delivery, or related experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises architecture and migrations; data warehouse and big data migration experience.
Pay
USD $86,100 - $169,800 per year (base salary); USD $113,300 - $187,400 per year (base salary); USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year (base salary); USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year (base salary)
Tools
Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Azure Databricks, Purview Data Governance, SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, Azure Synapse Gen2
AI focus
Works with Microsoft Fabric's AI-related capabilities, including Copilot, and helps customers adopt cloud and analytics platforms in the era of AI.
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