Technical Support Engineering - Data Integration

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.

 

The primary purpose of this team is to provide exceptional support to premier level customers utilizing Azure Data Factory technologies. The team will focus on delivering high-quality assistance, ensuring that customers receive the best possible experience with Azure Data Factory. By leveraging their deep technical knowledge and customer-centric approach, the team will help premier customers overcome challenges, optimize their data integration workflows, and achieve their strategic goals.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

 

Responsibilities

Response and Resolution: 

• • Reviews complex issues (e.g., multiple components of a product) and contacts customers to understand issue. Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue. Utilizes troubleshooting tools (e.g., event logs, performance traces) to help resolve customer issues. 

• • Acts as an advisor to the customer and handles complex, repeatable, or escalated cases that may become politically charged. Creates technical articles or knowledge base (e.g., edits or creates news/ knowledge-base articles) that is internal or customer facing for better customer understand. Provides best practices and education to ensure customer understands the problem in order to proactively resolve potential issues in the future. 

• • Performs complex product troubleshooting and remediation when needed. Works alongside the development teams to drive incident resolution for configuration, code, or other service deficiencies impacting customers. Analyzes patterns of problems and identifies workflows to optimize support engineering delivery for a team or region level. 

• • Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups including support engineering groups, product groups, services team, and account team as needed to resolve complex customer issues.  

 

Readiness: 

• • Implements end-to-end readiness programs (e.g., mentoring, leading triages, content creation, brown bag sessions, blogs, quality assurance checks, writes technical articles) and contributes to the content and readiness strategy. Mentors Technical Support Engineers or members from other teams outside of Customer Service and Support (CSS). Develops expert level competence on support topics. 

 

Product/Process Improvement:

• • Provides feedback to more senior engineers or serviceability team on functionality of products based on engagements with customers. • Provides feedback to the product group for product improvement. Leverages overall product knowledge to determine if and when features require enhancements.  

• • Engages with engineering team to investigate product bugs, provides business impact, and collaborates with appropriate stakeholders and senior team members on fixes.  

• • Contributes to and/or develops automation techniques and diagnostic tools to improve cross-group effectiveness. 

• • Translates feedback and creates processes and workflows for case resolution. 

• • Participates in case triage meetings and/or case discussions to share knowledge with other engineers and contribute to more rapid customer solutions. Utilizes learnings from triage meetings to identify and communicate readiness needs to manager or readiness team.  

 

Business Integration: 

• • Implements strategic business decisions with customers, partners, and teams to increase market share. Influences peers to implement strategy. 

 

Other: 

• • Embody our culture and values 

 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:• 5+ years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience

o OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 3+ years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience.

• Experience with one or more Big Data or Analytics Products and Services (Azure Data Factory, Synapse Pipelines and Dataflow, Fabric Data Factory.• Proficient in Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process including data movement and data transformation experience

 

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and / or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire / transfer and every two years thereafter.

 

Preferred qualifications:• Additional experience using analytical tools such as SQL, Power BI, Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Azure HDInsight, Azure Databricks, Azure Cosmos DB, NoSQL Services, MongoDB, Data Lake.• Exposure to Cloud Streaming technologies • Proficient in Open Source Ecosystem (Linux, Apache, etc.)• Experience with one or more customer support, product support, technical support, IT Admin support, Consulting, systems development, product development, network operations, software engineering, or I.T. consulting, customer or technical support or consulting or end-user support• Programming, automation, & debugging with dynamics tools (CRM/VDM/FTS/DfM) • Competent interpersonal and communication, open to feedback, and work under pressure 

Technical Support Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $91,000 - CAD $168,400 per year.

Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

 

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Apr 10th, 2025.
 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

 

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