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The Data & Sovereign Cloud Solution Engineer proactively engages with customers to design and drive trusted, sovereign, and data-centric cloud architectures. Leveraging deep expertise in data platforms, analytics, AI/ML workloads, and cloud infrastructure, the engineer builds technical credibility with customers operating in regulated and data-sensitive environments (public sector, critical industries, regulated enterprises). This role leads technical discussions around data platforms and architectures, establishes engagement models across extended teams, and acts as a trusted technical advisor in partner and ecosystem scenarios. The Solution Engineer plays a key role in enabling sovereign cloud adoption, ensuring data residency, compliance, security, and isolation requirements are met while unlocking innovation through Microsoft’s cloud and data services. By capturing competitive insights on data platforms, sovereign cloud offerings, and regulatory constraints, and collaborating closely with product and engineering teams, the engineer contributes to solution strategy and account-level technical wins.
Job Responsibility:
Build Strategy & Trusted Data Architectures: Collaborate with account teams to define data and cloud sovereignty strategies aligned with customer regulatory, security, and compliance requirements
Shape technical win plans around data platforms, analytics, AI/ML, and data-intensive workloads in sovereign or regulated cloud contexts
Tailor Microsoft messaging on trusted cloud, data residency, and compliance using customer feedback and competitive landscape insights
Share competitive intelligence on data platforms and sovereign cloud solutions with product and engineering teams to influence roadmap and positioning
Technical Enablement & Continuous Learning: Actively contribute to internal data and cloud communities
attend technical sessions, architecture reviews, and hackathons
Maintain and execute a personal readiness plan to stay current on data platform innovations, analytics, AI, and sovereign cloud architectures
Mentor peers and demonstrate new data, analytics, and cloud platform capabilities to internal teams
Partner & Ecosystem Engagement: Identify partner capability gaps related to data engineering, analytics platforms, and sovereign cloud implementations
Act as a technical liaison in sell-with and co-build partner scenarios, ensuring architectural alignment and compliance with sovereignty requirements
Support partner technical readiness for data-centric and regulated customer engagements
Scale Customer Engagements: Proactively engage customers to lead data architecture and cloud design discussions, from early strategy to technical decision points
Leverage Microsoft resources (Innovation Hub, demos, architecture assets) to unblock and accelerate customer data initiatives
Establish clear rules of engagement across extended technical teams to support complex, multi-workload data scenarios
Solution Design & Proof: Design and present end-to-end data architectures (Lakehouse, analytics, AI/ML pipelines) running on trusted and sovereign cloud environments
Drive cross-workload alignment across data, infrastructure, security, and application teams
Lead or oversee architecture design workshops and selected proof of concept (POC) engagements for data-intensive workloads
Validate architectures against data residency, security, compliance, and isolation requirements
Requirements:
Data Platform & Architecture Expertise: Strong understanding of modern data platforms (data lakes, lakehouse, analytics, AI/ML workloads)
Cloud & Sovereignty Advisory: Ability to guide customers through cloud adoption in regulated and sovereign contexts
Consultative Technical Selling: Understand business and regulatory needs before proposing architectures
Technical Communication: Clearly articulate complex data and cloud concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
Competitive Analysis: Evaluate competing data and cloud solutions, particularly in sovereign and regulated markets
Stakeholder Management: Build trusted relationships with customer architects, security, compliance, and IT leaders
Problem Solving & Analytical Thinking: Analyze complex data and infrastructure challenges and design scalable solutions
Presentation & Storytelling: Communicate value through architecture narratives and data-driven use cases
Nice to have:
Data Engineering or Cloud Architecture background
Experience with regulated industries or public sector customers
Sovereign cloud, data residency, and compliance frameworks
Security and identity concepts applied to data platforms
Technical sales and solution design leadership
Proof of Concept (POC) execution for data workloads
Readiness for large-scale data platform deployments