Digital Cloud & AI Solution Engineer - Innovative Data Platform
Microsoft
Digital Cloud & AI Solution Engineer – Innovative Data Platform
Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines
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Overview
Are you insatiably curious, deeply passionate about the realm of databases and analytics, and ready to tackle complex challenges in a dynamic environment in the era of AI? If so, we invite you to join our team as Senior Digital Cloud & AI Solution Engineer – Innovative Data Platform for mid-market customers at Microsoft. Here, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, working on cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies to drive meaningful impact. Join us and be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.
Databases & Analytics is a growth opportunity for Microsoft Cloud & AI, as well as its partners and customers. It includes a rich portfolio of products including IaaS and PaaS services on the Cloud & AI Platform in the age of AI. These technologies empower customers to build, deploy, and manage database and analytics applications in a cloud-native way.
At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team—one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation.
SME&C is more than a sales organization—it’s a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do.
If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how SME&C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business.
As a Senior Digital Cloud & AI Solution Engineer – Innovative Data Platform, you will play a pivotal role in helping enterprises unlock the full potential of Microsoft’s cloud database and analytics stack across every stage of deployment. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering leaders and platform teams to accelerate the Fabric Data Platform, including Cloud & AI Databases and Analytics, through hands-on engagements like Proof of Concepts, hackathons, and architecture workshops. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, hone your technical skills, and become adept at solution design and deployment. You’ll guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and accelerate database and analytics migration into their deployment workflows. In summary, you’ll help customers modernize their data platform and realize the full value of Microsoft’s platform, all while enjoying flexible work opportunities.
As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and accelerate database and analytics migration into their deployment workflows. In summary, you’ll help customers modernize their data platform and realize the full value of Microsoft’s platform.
This opportunity will allow you to:
- Accelerate your career growth by leading impactful engagements that help customers modernize their data platforms and adopt cutting-edge cloud and AI technologies.
- Deepen your technical proficiency through hands-on solution design, architecture workshops, and real-world deployment scenarios.
- Develop strategic influence by guiding customers through secure, scalable data solutions and shaping key technical decisions.
- Strengthen your collaboration skills by working closely with engineering teams, platform specialists, and customer stakeholders.
- Build future-ready capabilities through immersive learning, certifications, and continuous exposure to Microsoft’s evolving data and analytics ecosystem.
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
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.
6+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
- Proficient on Cloud & AI Databases (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL) from migration & modernize and creating new AI apps.
- Proficient on Cloud & AI Analytics (Fabric, Cloud & AI Databricks, Purview) and competitors (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake) in data warehouse, data lake, big data, analytics, real-time intelligent, and reporting using integrated Data Security & Governance.
- Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.
Additional or preferred qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND 12+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.
- Proficient on data warehouse & big data migration including on-prem appliance (Teradata, Netezza, Oracle), Hadoop (Cloudera, Hortonworks) and Cloud & AI Synapse Gen2.
- Certification in relevant (Microsoft or industry) technologies or disciplines (e.g., Microsoft Office 365; Power BI; Azure Administrator, Architecture, and Development exams; Cloud Platform Technologies; Information Security; Architecture).
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 proficiency in Analytics Portfolio: Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, DW, real-time intelligence, BI, Copilot), Cloud & AI Databricks, Purview Data Governance and Cloud & AI Databases: SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL.
- Maintain and grow proficiency in on-prem EDW (Teradata, Netezza, Exadata), Hadoop & BI solutions.
- Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in cloud Database & Analytics communities and customer forums
- Proactively develops strategic cross-workload/subsidiary and account-level responses to specific market threats by identifying market patterns and delivering feedback to business group on industry trends and needs.
- Builds customer compete knowledge, documents compete patterns across solution areas, and shares within the community to drive change and escalations for competitive selling strategies. Acts as a subject matter expert on a particular competition. Delivers customer compete knowledge back to product and engineering teams.
- Works with local account teams to provide feedback on corporate domain messages. Works with local account teams to tailor and drive customer win strategy for the local markets.Monitors, analyzes, and provides input on proactive action plans to promote customer usage of key/prioritized Microsoft solutions/products that support customer’s business outcomes. Identifies opportunities to promote usage.
- Acts as the voice of the customer (VOC) by acting as a role model for leveraging various internal resources (e.g., unified action tracker [UAT], technical feedback platform) and mentoring peers on best practices around internal resource usage. Participates in Microsoft centric operations and cadences to align with customers as needed. Acts as a go-to resource for customer success.
- Identifies and engages with key customer technical and business decision makers, anticipating customer needs and issues and engages with sales team and delivering/driving sales strategy.
- Ensures consistency and quality of engagements through adherence of standards and best practices (e.g., managed service provider [MSP], managed certified professional [MCP]) in and provides feedback as needed. Models common sales and delivery methodology for the Microsoft sales organization to identify and engage customers in new opportunities. Actively seeks and incorporates feedback on customer impact to increase capabilities.
- Helps identify team resources needed through customer scope validation. Helps to maximize impact of customer engagements by executing on solutions to blockers.
- Leverages knowledge of programs and investments (e.g., Microsoft Technology Center [MTC], exec briefing center, partner workshops) and proactively engages engineering, product, and support teams to remediate escalated technical blockers and anticipate and potential blockers based on needs.
- Uses knowledge of customer context and broad technical, domain, cross-solution, and market/industry knowledge and experience to build credibility with customers individually or at scale.
- Leads and ensures a broad range customer needs are met by showcasing suitable Microsoft solutions anchored in insights and business value, and influences customer technical buy-in. Establishes rules of engagement (e.g., role boundaries, handoff strategies) for extended team, and leverages deep knowledge of processes (e.g., Managed Service Provider [MSP], co-sell partners), tools, and programs (e.g., FastTrack). Ensures and drives alignment of Microsoft technologies with future sector standards and requirements by working with industry boards and driving customer case studies and references.
- Scales wins through partner in a sell-with environment by promoting the partner within the Microsoft ecosystem and drives the orchestration model for partner engagement at scale. Proactively collaborates with pre-sale team and partners. Self-identifies and selects top 5 to 10 go-to partners on proactive and early engagement in opportunities. Reviews partner engagement and provides feedback to partners. Works with Tech Leadership of partner on joint goals of partnership
- Scales wins through partner in a sell-with environment by promoting the partner within the Microsoft ecosystem (e.g., account teams) and drives the orchestration model for partner engagement at scale.
- Adapts and extends architecture patterns across technologies/solution areas to accommodate complex customer and/or business requirements and drive integration solutions for industry flavor. Delivers assets that can be leveraged by others in the business.
- Applies, customizes, and guides colleagues to use existing demonstration assets. Demonstrates and oversees demonstrations (e.g., pre-built demos, architectural design sessions [ADS], proof of concept [POC] sessions with partners, pilots, hackathons) of solutions and position solutions against competitors. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove capabilities and programmatic framework for re-use by the business. Leads the review of partner demonstrations and supports partners to ensure alignment with Microsoft standards.
- Leads and oversees group training or one-to-many events (e.g., workshops, Webinars) to present and educate customers, partners, and colleagues with subject matter expertise across Microsoft solution areas/products.
- Identifies connections across platforms/workloads to promote collaborative learning. Builds readiness plans for peers or area level and proactively identifies gaps and new opportunities for learning.
- Monitors, responds to, and acts as a thought leader on internal and external tech community posts, establishes and leads vibrant tech communities, including community calls, sessions, hackathon, etc. and acts as a mentor to the community. Contributes and participates in Customer Executive Briefing Center sessions. Shares best practices internally on community calls and drives recognition of Microsoft cloud solutions through presentations and engagements with external audiences.