Overview
MCAPS-Core accelerates customer outcomes and business growth. By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission, we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation - delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable competitive advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market.
Our mission is to accelerate application and database modernization, helping customers build the digital foundation required to become Frontier Firms. Through deep technical expertise, trusted customer relationships, and differentiated IP, GBB accelerates opportunities and customer outcomes. The team also serves as a critical feedback loop across customers and the field, identifying patterns, uncovering market signals, and translating insights into faster product, strategy, and go-to-market decisions that improve execution at scale.
The Americas Data Platform GBB organization exists to provide scarce database and modernization expertise that accelerates customer transformation, enables field execution, drives Azure database growth, and serves as Microsoft's feedback loop between customers, the field, engineering, and GTM.
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
Customer Strategy, Technical Leadership & Modernization
Provide deep domain expertise across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure Databases, and data estate modernization.
Lead database modernization and cloud migration strategies for Microsoft's largest and most complex database estates.
Advise customers on architecture, modernization roadmaps, platform selection, and AI-ready data foundations.
Build executive relationships with customers to align database modernization initiatives with business outcomes and AI transformation goals.
Provide expertise on SQL licensing, Azure Arc, PAYGO, renewals, commercial strategy, and modernization economics.
Business Growth, Opportunity Acceleration & Competitive Strategy
Accelerate strategic customer opportunities by partnering with account teams, specialists, Solution Engineering, Customer Success, and partners.
Drive competitive displacement strategies against AWS, Oracle, Google Cloud, and other database platforms.
Develop and execute scalable growth motions that increase Azure database consumption, modernization velocity, and AI platform a
