Senior Engineering Architect

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.

The Azure Databases SQL Customer Success Engineering team is highly collaborative, data-oriented, with deep technical product knowledge. Team is focused on unblocking and accelerating complex Data Modernization engagements and gaiting product issues with our customers. Team is primarily focused on Azure SQL services including SQL Server and Arc along with Oracle, Db2 & Sybase modernizations.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of engineers or technical professionals, driving project planning, prioritization of work, and designing features.
• Support, mentor, and help engineers grow, building an inclusive team environment.
• Act as a liaison between different teams, both internal and external, ensuring clear communication and alignment of objectives. They build relationships, challenge others, and demonstrate the company's value proposition.
• Promote and position yourself as a leading Oracle, OSS, 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.
  
  

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 8+ years of relevant experience in the area of SQL Server, Azure SQL, Oracle, Sybase.
• Proven leadership experience in people management leading technical innovations.
• Proven customer facing experience.
• Enterprise-scale data migration experience from SQL/Oracle platforms, starting from project scoping to data/app migration and final certification and post-migration optimizations.
  
  

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.
  
  

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• Mainframe Db2 expertise
• BigData, Snowflake or Microsoft Fabric
  
  

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