Solution Engineer Data — Microsoft
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Role overview
Collaborate with brilliant minds who challenge, inspire, and elevate each other to new heights.
As a Solution Engineer for Data in the Technology Sales team, you help enterprise customers reimagine what is possible with their data.
You partner closely with technical and business leaders to translate complex challenges into clear solution paths, ensuring that every engagement moves customers closer to their strategic goals.
- Collaborate with brilliant minds who challenge, inspire, and elevate each other to new heights.
- As a Solution Engineer for Data in the Technology Sales team, you help enterprise customers reimagine what is possible with their data.
- Engage proactively with customers to build credibility as a trusted advisor by combining customer context, solution expertise, and technical and industry knowledge.
- Lead technical discussions, demonstrations, and proof of concept activities to ensure technical wins for core and adjacent Microsoft technologies, establishing clear rules of engagement and handoffs across virtual teams.
- Required
- Master's / Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
Main responsibilities
- Engage proactively with customers to build credibility as a trusted advisor by combining customer context, solution expertise, and technical and industry knowledge.
- Lead technical discussions, demonstrations, and proof of concept activities to ensure technical wins for core and adjacent Microsoft technologies, establishing clear rules of engagement and handoffs across virtual teams.
- Design and present solution architectures that span data, analytics, and artificial intelligence scenarios, driving cross-workload support for Microsoft solutions that address customer modernization and migration needs.
- Act as a liaison in partner sell-with scenarios, coordinating partner and internal resources throughout engagements and identifying partner skill or resource gaps that can inform internal readiness plans.
- Capture market insights from customer engagements and feed them back to product, engineering, and account teams to refine strategies, strengthen Microsoft’s value proposition, and shape customer success and consumption plans.
Key requirements
- Required
- Master's / Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- AND several years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience, including several years of experience with cloud databases, analytics solutions and or databases on premises, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
- OR equivalent experience.
- This roles involves collaboration with local customers, therefore fluency in German and/or French is required. Preferred Qualifications
- Desired technical depth (L400) and Certifications:
- Database: DP-800 SQL AI Developer Associate Database: DP-420 Azure Cosmos DB Developer DP-700 Fabric Data Engineer Associate Solution Engineering IC4
- The typical base pay range for this role across Switzerland is CHF 126,000.00
- CHF 208,700.00 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Find additional benefits and pay information here:
- https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/switzerland-corporate-pay.html
Application process
- This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
- If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Company and context
- You build deep expertise across cloud platforms, analytics, governance, and artificial intelligence while continuously learning and shaping how organizations modernize, migrate, and innovate with their data.
- Join this team to accelerate customer success, expand your technical breadth, and influence how organizations build their next generation of data and artificial intelligence solutions.
- At Microsoft, our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions.
- With a growth‑mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress, people, teams, and customers.
- Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.
Additional details
- This roles involves collaboration with local customers, therefore fluency in German and/or French is required.
- Database: DP-800 SQL AI Developer Associate Database: DP-420 Azure Cosmos DB Developer DP-700 Fabric Data Engineer Associate Solution Engineering IC4
Notes and original content
- Responsibilities
- Qualifications
- Database: DP-800 SQL AI Developer Associate
- Database: DP-420 Azure Cosmos DB Developer
- DP-700 Fabric Data Engineer Associate
- Solution Engineering IC4
Questions about this listing
What salary does Microsoft offer for this role?
Microsoft lists CHF 83'000 - 126'000 gross per year for this position in Zürich. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Microsoft offer?
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