Data & AI Consultant
Microsoft · Posted Nov 3
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
Industry Solutions helps Microsoft customers get the best outcomes from their investments in Microsoft cloud technologies, from envisioning possibilities to delivering solutions. The Data & AI Consultant role delivers high-quality data and AI solutions and business outcomes on Microsoft Azure for strategic customers, working in a collaborative consulting team.
What you will do
- Demonstrate the ability to adapt to modern technologies and learn quickly.
- Ability to deliver results through teamwork while achieving individual billable attainment goals.
- Ability to focus on customers, proven ability to be client focused, create results, proactive, and collaborate with others.
- Demonstrate a passion for mentoring, supporting peers & sharing knowledge.
- Consume and contribute best practices, lessons learned, and intellectual property (IP) to the global Microsoft community with a focus on continuous improvement.
- Foster senior level client relationships and engage with senior level Microsoft and client stakeholders to drive solution success.
- Display strong time, project, and priority management skills.
- Express excellent communication skills, presentation skills, written skills, customer/partner relationships and expectations management.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Need to have a deep technical background with 10+ years of technology-related experience, including 4+ years delivering data and AI solutions on Microsoft Azure (Experience on AWS or GCP will be an added advantage). Require in depth expertise in the following functional areas.
- Designing and implementing modern data platforms on Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure SQL.
- Building scalable batch and streaming data pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Event Hubs and Stream Analytics.
- Lakehouse and medallion architecture, including Delta and Parquet formats.
- Data modelling, query optimization and performance tuning.
- Migrating and modernizing legacy data warehouses and on-premises data estates to Azure.
- Proficiency in SQL, Python and PySpark.
- Knowledge of Azure DevOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (ARM, Bicep or Terraform).
- Designing and delivering generative AI solutions with Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI and agentic patterns, including retrieval augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering and orchestration frameworks.
- Azure Machine Learning for model development, deployment and MLOps.
- Azure AI Search, Document Intelligence and Cognitive Services.
- Evaluation, grounding and Responsible AI practices.
- Copilot and Copilot Studio extensibility.
- Data governance, lineage and cataloguing with Microsoft Purview.
- Securing data and AI workloads using Microsoft Entra ID, private networking, Azure Key Vault, RBAC and encryption.
- Power BI semantic models and enterprise reporting.
- Cost management and platform optimization.
- We would also expect you to be able to pass the following Certifications in the first 12 months of employment with us, if you do not already hold them:
- DP-900: Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals
- AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
- DP-700: Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate
- AI-102: Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate
- DP-600: Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and hardware devices. Best known for its Windows operating systems, Microsoft 365 productivity suite, and Xbox gaming consoles, the company has expanded heavily into enterprise cloud computing via Azure and advanced artificial intelligence solutions. As one of the world's most valuable public enterprises, it empowers individuals and businesses globally through innovative digital transformation.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 228,000+ employees
- Founded
- April 4, 1975
- Location
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Vice Chair and President
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