Data Platform Solution Engineer - Microsoft Canada, Greater Toronto

The Opportunity

Are you insatiably curious, deeply passionate about the realm of databases and analytics, and ready to tackle complex challenges in a dynamic environment in the era of AI? Microsoft Canada invites you to join our team in Greater Toronto as a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer, focusing on Innovative Data Platform for commercial customers. This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation, working on cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technical solutions to drive meaningful impact. You'll thrive in an environment that values collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.

Databases & Analytics represents a significant growth area for Microsoft Azure, as well as for its partners and customers. This portfolio includes a rich array of IaaS and PaaS services on the Azure Platform, empowering customers to build, deploy, and manage advanced database and analytics applications in a cloud-native way. Your expertise will be crucial in this evolving landscape.

As an Innovative Data Platform Solution Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in helping enterprises unlock the full potential of Microsoft’s comprehensive cloud data and analytics stack across every stage of deployment. You'll collaborate closely with engineering leaders and platform teams to accelerate the adoption of the Fabric Data Platform, including Azure Databases and Analytics. This involves hands-on engagements such as Proof of Concepts, hackathons, and architecture workshops. This experience will accelerate your career growth, deepen your business acumen, hone your technical skills, and develop your proficiency in solution design and deployment. You will guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence their technical decisions, and accelerate database and analytics migration into their deployment workflows. In summary, you’ll help customers modernize their data platform and realize the full value of Microsoft’s platform.

Key Duties

• 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 expertise in Analytics Portfolio: Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, DW, real-time intelligence, BI, Copilot), Azure Databricks, Purview Data Governance and Azure Databases: SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL.
• Maintain and grow expertise in on-prem EDW (Teradata, Netezza, Exadata), Hadoop & BI solutions.
• Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in cloud Database & Analytics communities and customer forums.

Requirements

This technical Solution Engineer role requires a strong foundation in computer science or related fields, coupled with significant experience in pre-sales, consulting, or technology delivery. Candidates should demonstrate expertise in cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, and relevant data and analytics technologies.

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications include:

• 6+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).
• Expert on Azure Databases (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL) from migration & modernize and creating new AI apps.
• Expert on Azure Analytics (Fabric, Azure Databricks, Purview) and competitors (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake) in data warehouse, data lake, big data, analytics, real-time intelligent, and reporting using integrated Data Security & Governance.
• Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.
• Proficient on data warehouse & big data migration including on-prem appliance (Teradata, Netezza, Oracle), Hadoop (Cloudera, Hortonworks) and Azure Synapse Gen2.
• Experience working with Financial Services/ or highly regulated industries.

Perks and Benefits

Microsoft Canada offers flexible work opportunities, supporting employees in achieving their full potential while maintaining work-life balance.