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If so, we invite you to join our team as a Cloud & AI Data Solution Engineer for commercial & public customers at Microsoft.\nIn this technical sales role, you'll be at the forefront of 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.\nDatabases & Analytics is a growth opportunity for Microsoft Azure, as well as its partners and customers. These technologies empower customers to build, deploy, and manage database and analytics solutions in the era of Frontier AI.\nAs a Cloud & AI Data Solution Engineer, you work with technical and business stakeholders at our commercial & public customers in Germany to design secure, scalable database and analytics architectures on Azure. You run demos, workshops and proofs of concept for database modernization, Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks, and you help customers make their technical decision for Azure. You work alongside experienced Solution Engineers and account teams, own a growing set of customer engagements, and build depth in one or more data workloads.\nThis opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, develop business acumen, hone your technical skills, and become adept at solution design and deployment. The role offers flexible work opportunities.\nMicrosoft'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, 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.\nResponsibilities\nRun Databases & Analytics customer engagements for an assigned set of accounts, with guidance from experienced Solution Engineers on complex deals.\nDrive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments.\nDeliver technical workshops: live demos, whiteboarding and architecture sessions co-created with customers, rapid prototyping, and hands-on proofs of concept and pilots to resolve technical blockers.\nProve technical solutions, co-create or re-use existing architecture to influence solution design and win customer commitment for deployments.\nBuild and maintain expertise in the Analytics Portfolio (Microsoft Fabric including OneLake, Azure Databricks) and Azure Databases (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL).\nBuild knowledge of on-premises EDW (Teradata, Netezza, Exadata), Hadoop and BI solutions to support migration conversations.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nBusiness-fluent German and English.\n3+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience; OR\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field AND 1+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience; OR equivalent experience.\nInitial experience with Azure database technologies, such as Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, DocumentDB, and PostgreSQL, including migration and modernization scenarios.\nInitial experience with Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake and Azure Databricks, and/or comparable technologies such as BigQuery, Redshift, or Snowflake, across areas such as data warehousing, data lakes, big data, analytics, real-time intelligence, reporting, and integrated data security and governance.\nPreferred Qualifications\nMicrosoft certifications such as Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300), Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600), or Fabric Data Engineer Associate (DP-700).\nFamiliarity with database and data technologies, including ETL, data warehousing, and reporting.\nExperience with data warehouse and big data migration, including technologies such as Teradata, Netezza, Oracle, Hadoop (Cloudera or Hortonworks), and Azure Synapse Gen2.\nSolution Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across Germany is € 55,400.00 - € 88,800.00 per year. 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