Job Description
The Position
Do you want to be part of an Elite team working with the Azure and SQL product group to drive competitive migrations to the Microsoft Data platform and provide insights to drive future product improvements? Well then this may be the opportunity you need to stretch your wings.
The Team
The Data Insights Center-of-Expertise supports a companywide strategic initiative to position Microsoft as a leader in cloud and on premises based Data Platform Solutions. The CoE is part of the Data Insights Domain and geographically distributed worldwide. It is chartered to function in close interaction with product engineering, and collaborate with product and services sales teams to drive solution adoption.
Primary Focus
This position focuses on the SEAL initiative to drive migrations from competitors to the Microsoft Data platform. This includes both OLTP and DSS solutions. Work with customers, partners and engineering to drive CPU core conversion to Microsoft.
Key Traits for Success
Business development: Brings their years of expertise to bear on business development opportunities and opportunity discovery. Contributes to thought leadership within and across both their local Microsoft business and more broadly across other Microsoft businesses.
Leadership: Communicates vision, business and technical direction, & workgroup commitments. Plays a vital part in business strategy by providing internal practice management risk assessment. Contributes to organizational change management for accelerating adoption of solution sales and industrialized solution delivery capabilities.
Qualifications:
• Bachelors or higher degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics) & Proficient in English. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Demonstrable Skills
• Ability to create compelling value propositions and deliver quantified business justifications.
• Strong executive presence and ability to interact with top executives.
• Ability to translate technology capabilities into business capabilities.
• Application development lifecycle, discovering patterns and practices.
• Solution architecture design, DBMS architecture.
• Work experience in an Agile environment - preferably Scrum
• Inclusion of quality attributes in solution designs (security, availability, resilience, performance, scalability, cost, usability).
• Working knowledge with different Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman)
Hands-on technical skills in a number of the following areas:
• DBMS: Relational (SQL Server, incl. T-SQL, Scripting, etc), Oracle (ExaData) or IBM DB2, columnar (RedShift, Vertica), noSQL, SAP BW. (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra - key-value stores, graph databases, RDF triple stores)
• End-to-end Microsoft BI stack knowledge and experience: SQL Server, Azure, Azure SQL DB, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, HD Insight, Streaming Insight, Sharepoint BI, PowerPivot, PowerView, Excel, PowerBI.
• Languages: SQL, C#, Java, or Python / Powershell, use of Visual Studio is preferred.
• ETL technologies: SSIS, Informatica etc.