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The Solutions Sales Advisory Cloud & AI Data Platform (GBB) role sits within the Americas Data Platform GBB organization, providing specialized database and modernization expertise. You will lead database modernization and cloud migration strategies for complex estates, advising customers on architecture, platform selection, and AI-ready data foundations. Day-to-day responsibilities include building executive relationships, driving competitive displacement strategies against AWS, Oracle, and Google Cloud, and creating reusable intellectual property like playbooks and assessment frameworks. You will utilize deep domain knowledge in SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure Databases, Azure Arc, and PAYGO commercial strategy. This role serves as a critical feedback loop, translating customer insights into product and engineering priorities to solve technical challenges related to application modernization and accelerating Azure database consumption across the Americas.
Lead database modernization and cloud migration strategies for large and complex enterprise database estates.
Advise customers on architecture, platform selection, and AI-ready data foundations to align with business goals.
Drive competitive displacement strategies against AWS, Oracle, and Google Cloud platforms.
Develop and execute scalable growth motions to increase Azure database consumption and AI platform adoption.
Create reusable intellectual property, playbooks, and assessment frameworks to scale modernization methodologies across the field.
Provide structured feedback to engineering and product groups regarding customer adoption barriers and market trends.
Coach sellers, specialists, and partners on database platforms and customer engagement best practices.
What we're looking for
Provide deep domain expertise across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure Databases, and data estate modernization.
Lead database modernization and cloud migration strategies for complex database estates.
Advise customers on architecture, modernization roadmaps, platform selection, and AI-ready data foundations.
Build executive relationships to align database modernization with business outcomes and AI transformation goals.
Drive competitive displacement strategies against AWS, Oracle, and Google Cloud.
Create reusable intellectual property, playbooks, and assessment frameworks that scale across the field.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technical solution architecture or consulting (preferred: 8+ years).
Relevant technical certification(s) in cloud technologies, solution architecture, or related domain (preferred).
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