Microsoft Senior Engineering Architect 

United States, Washington 

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build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

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Required Qualifications

• ​​Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of relevant experience in the area of SQL Server/Azure SQL
  • Or equivalent work experience
• 4+ years of enterprise-scale data migration experience from SQL technologies, 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

• ​​Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of relevant experience in the area of SQL Server/Azure SQL
  • Or equivalent experience.
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ yearsenterprise-scale data migration experience from SQL technologies, starting from project scoping to data/app migration and final certification and post-migration optimizations.​
  • Or equivalent work experience
• Knowledge of other data technologies from other cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, IBM and Oracle Clouds as well as other emerging technologies such as Vector Databases, RAG or New/NoSQL.
• Proficiency in C# and .NET framework.
• Demonstrated technical thought leadership in customer facing situations.
• Ability to drive deep internal engineering conversations on potential strategy toward improving our Azure Data Services and own this input end to end.
• Enterprise-scale data migration experience from Oracle technologies, starting from project scoping to data/app migration and final certification and post-migration performance tuning.
• Fluent knowledge of how customers assess, purchase and manage their public cloud solutions.
• Ability to connect technology with measurable business value.
• Demonstrated technical thought leadership in customer facing situations.
• Self-driven ability to deliver on ambiguous technical challenges with incomplete data.

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• Promote and position yourself as a leading 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