Responsibilities

• Understand market demand and customers’ data estate, including common workloads, use patterns and business priorities and needs, focusing in the specific area of expertise
• Apply technical knowledge to help implement solutions, help solve technical customer problems; build technical collateral
• Understand current technical capabilities of the Azure and competing products and platforms
• Identify opportunities for improvement and enhancement based on customer, field and internal stakeholder feedback and help incorporate them into the overall technical strategy
• Help define and drive end-to-end programs for execution of the technical strategy 
• Serve as the technical lead and interface between Azure field teams and Azure Engineering in respective areas and help with content delivery when/where needed
• Working with multiple customers to create Proof of concepts (POCs) / Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) etc. and guiding customers through to production deployment and operationalization of projects​
• Ensure that solution exhibits high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, repeatability, appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment
• Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners and external communities
• Build and grow Data & Analytics communities by driving activities including OpenHack, Workshop

Qualifications

Required Professional Qualifications

• Experience working with large Enterprise customers and field communities in consulting or similar roles, leading deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and support of highly distributed applications OR: Experience in building products and services as part of Engineering teams in engineering positions. 
• Ability to run complex program management at a global scale, including cross-project planning and resource orchestration, as well as the ability to consistently identify and drive program enhancements. 
• Strategic thinking with the ability to execute cross-org and drive for results in ambiguous environments, independence in decision making, ability to problem-solve. 
• Proven ability to quickly adapt in rapidly evolving business situations 
• Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solutions/projects. 
• Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts, and ensuring follow-through with exceptional verbal and written communication
• Strong Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences and with different levels of an organization

Required Technical Qualifications

• Deep domain expertise in one of the Data-specific areas, such as SQL Server, deployments and migrations to the cloud, Open-source database deployments and migrations, Cloud Scale Analytics, Data Governance, etc. OR hands-on experience working with the respective products at the expert level. 
• Hands-on experience and technical expertise with respective products and technologies. 
• Working knowledge of Azure and/or competitive cloud technologies. 

Preferred Technical Qualifications

• Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e., Jenkins, Azure Developer Services, GitHub) and container orchestration systems (i.e., Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Azure Kubernetes Service, GitHub). 
• Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs. 

Preferred Education Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience in related field. 
• Certification in one or more of the following technologies: Azure Data, Analytics, Big Data. 

Desired Experience​ 

• Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or services company such as Amazon, Google, IBM, etc.