Zarak Khan

Senior Solution Engineer - Data and AI at Microsoft

Canada

About

Around 11 years of hands-on experience as a pre-sales and post-sales consultant for enterprise-level Cloud Data Analytics, Data Modernisation, Solution Architecture Design, Data Warehousing, Cloud Migration, Data Engineering, Data Strategy & Architecture, Consulting, Business Intelligence, and Data Modelling solutions. Possesses excellent leadership and consulting acumen with a result oriented approach for successful delivery of enterprise-scale solutions. Portfolio includes diversified working environments, strong client focus, and excellent interpersonal skills.

Experience

  • Senior Solution Engineer - Data and AI at Microsoft
    Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

  • Solutions Architect at Snowflake
    Jun 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Working as a Solutions Architect responsible for leading end-to-end solution architecture for multiple clients, ensuring it meets business needs and complies with architectural and technology standards. Leading executive level requirement gathering and enablement sessions to understand client’s current state, pain points, and design/enable future state architecture.

  • Solution Specialist at RBC
    Apr 2023 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Working as a Solution Specialist responsible for modernising data analytics solutions, designing business driven technology enabled solutions for data analytics, implementing end to end solution using various cloud technologies, and guiding business teams to leverage their data. Collaborated with various teams on the project and participated in architectural discussions to enhance & attain mutually agreed upon goals.

  • Senior Consultant - Strategy, Analytics, and M&A at Deloitte
    Jul 2021 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Worked as a Senior Consultant responsible for delivery and technical sales of Data Modernisation/Data Analytics solutions. Facilitated executive-level interviews to understand organisation’s pain points & future vision to enable design & architecture for future state and proposed enterprise-level solutions. Performed duties as technical SME for pre-sales and post-sales Data Modernisation/Cloud Migration and strategy projects. Led teams of data engineers to develop and operationalise cloud-based Data Analytics solutions. Implemented successful POCs for customers enabling them to leverage data for self-serve analytics and to generate actionable intelligence pertaining to their businesses.

  • Data Engineer at Gensquared Inc. (acquired by EY)
    Sep 2020 - Jul 2021 · 11 mos

    Worked as a Data Engineer responsible for business requirements gathering, designing & architecting data models, delivery, and technical sales of Data Modernisation/Data Analytics solutions. Conducted interviews with business stakeholders to gather information about their current challenges & requirements to design & architect solutions as per their needs. Performed duties as technical SME and team lead for post-sales delivery of Data Modernisation and Cloud Migration projects. Guided clients in enabling them to leverage data to generate actionable intelligence pertaining to their businesses. Provided effort estimates and technical responses for SOWs.