Are you insatiably curious, deeply passionate about the realm of AI & applications, and ready to tackle complex challenges in a dynamic environment? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Digital Cloud & AI Solution Engineer – Innovative AI Applications 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. As a Digital 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. This opportunity will allow you to: + Accelerate your career growth by leading impactful engagements that help customers modernize their applications and adopt AI-powered solutions across the development lifecycle. + Deepen your technical proficiency through hands-on architecture design, proof of concepts, and real-world development scenarios using Microsoft’s AI and application platform. + Develop strategic influence by guiding customers through secure, scalable application design and shaping key technical decisions that drive innovation. + Strengthen your collaboration skills by working closely with engineering teams, platform specialists, and customer developers to deliver successful outcomes. + Build future-ready capabilities through continuous learning, certifications, and exposure to Microsoft’s evolving AI, cloud-native, and responsible AI technologies. 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. **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 **Qualifications** **Required/minimum qualifications** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND 2+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience. + 2+ years of experience in one or more of the following solution areas: + Cloud analytics and data integration (e.g. Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Snowflake) + SQL Database (e.g. Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, SQL Server, Azure Database for PostgreSQL) + No-SQL Databases (e.g. Azure CosmosDB, Apache Cassandra, MongoDB) + Data governance (e.g. Microsoft Purview, Collibra) Digital Solution Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $40.91 - $81.63 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $53.85 - $89.09 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .