Senior Engineering Architect

• Interfacing with both the generalist and specialist solution architects (MS internal and Customer) to mentor and evangelize Azure Data services.
• Promote and position yourself as Azure Data Services, MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and Migration subject matter expert.
• Executing limited POCs and Pilots.
• Reporting to internal and external teams as business objectives / business value conditions are met.
• Documenting and sharing technical best practices / insights within engineering and the wider architect community
• Bring the feature gaps and new feature requests back to product group engineering and owning the responsibility for driving these changes where applicable
• Participate and contribute to key engineering activities like telemetry reviews, code and design specification review.
• Work closely with feature PMs and Software engineers.
• Pre-Sales Solution Architecture Consultation.
• Support migration delivery projects for data tier.
• Working with both Partner/Customer and Microsoft account teams on the high potential accounts where engineering assistance is required for modernization projects
• Advise pre-sales & technical teams on best practice architectures for customer facing solutions. This can be both a proactive activity where you build a plan to pursue a specific technical scenario or it can be a reactive response to a customer need or request for proposal.
• Executing quick technical feasibility and proposal development for moving identified workloads to Azure Data Platform.
• Building a technical and security architecture in Azure Data Platform for the selected workloads

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant Architect Engineering experience.
• 10+ years of hands on deep proficiency with Oracle DB, Exadata, Golden Gate, MSSQL, or PostgreSQL.
• 10+ years of Oracle technologies starting from the database tier through to application understanding, and certainly a subject matter expert on Oracle database technologies.
• 10+ years of communication protocols such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET etc. and Oracle specific interfaces such as OCI.
• 10+ years of hands on experience of architecting and building and/or migrating mission critical operational systems running on large scale enterprise databases.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Enterprise-scale data migration experience from Oracle technologies, starting from project scoping to data/app migration and final certification and post-migration performance tuning.
• Have hands-on experience and understanding of SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Reporting Services and Azure Data Factory.
• Good to have breadth experience with PostgreSQL and NoSQL.
• Fluent knowledge of how customers assess, purchase and manage their public cloud solutions.
• Good to have knowledge of competitor cloud technologies such as AWS, GCP, IBM and Oracle Clouds.
• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to connect technology with measurable business value.
• Demonstrated technical thought leadership in customer facing situations.
• Be self-driven and show ability to deliver on ambiguous technical challenges with incomplete data.
• Ability to drive deep internal engineering conversations on potential strategy toward improving our Azure Data Services and own this input end to end.
• Bachelor's Degree or Higher in computer science, Information Technology, or related field required.

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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.