Azure Data Solution Architect with Pre Sales

This role is a key hire for Client, joining our Data, Business Intelligence and AI (Artificial Intelligence) practice you will work at the forefront of innovation and customer success. Alongside the CTO for Data and AI you will evolve our intellectual property (e.g., methods, products, accelerators, demos, etc), define solutions for customers and be a subject matter expert for the organization. The successful candidate will have an entrepreneurial mindset and be comfortable with forging strong relationships with customers and partners (E.g., Microsoft).

For 50% of the time, you will be architecting, implementing, and designing Microsoft Azure data solutions for real time and batch analytics including building Demos and Proof of Concepts for customers.

For the other 50% you will be involved in presales, presenting at events and consulting with customers on how to maximise value from their data safely and securely. This includes topics such as data strategy, data governance, data privacy, data security, data modelling ELT techniques and extracting the most from the Microsoft's Azure Data and AI services.

This is a work-from-home role with occasional travel (~10%).

Synapse Spark or Databricks

Synapse Pipelines or Azure Data Factory

Synapse SQL or Azure Data Warehouse

Azure Data Lake and data lake design

Data Modelling (facts, dimensions)

Varieties of SQL (Azure SQL, SQL Server, Spark SQL, SQL DW)

Python

IOT / Streaming Data

Power BI

Azure Purview

Pre-sales solution architecture and customer engagement for new opportunities

Data security, governance, and privacy

Agile and scrum methods including creating epics, features, and stories

Business analysis skills

Excellent communication and presentation skills

DataOps strategies across Dev, Test, Production

A strong understanding of the US data tech market