Cloud Solution Architect

Job Description

We are looking to hire a hands-on Cloud Solution Architect (CSA)- Cloud & AI Platforms (CAIP) Factory to join our diverse, talented, high performance, and innovative team, focused on driving Azure Infrastructure and Azure Application Migrations via the Cloud Accelerate Factory. The Cloud Acceleration Factory is best suited for individuals that are highly technical, solution focused and have a passion for Project Management. The Cloud Acceleration Factory provides opportunity to drive feedback into Microsoft’s core product teams to help improve our platform. CSAs are senior individual contributors who operate globally and engage directly with customers. It is a hands-on technical and governance role spanning across design, build, and production. Candidates are expected to comfortably switch from a whiteboard to the keyboard. This is a truly exciting role that will feature unique and challenging technical problems to solve and to help our customers succeed.

Job Responsibility

Play a pivotal role in the Azure Agentic Modernization Factory, providing technical enablement, operational support, and strategic engagement across customer projects
Ensure successful delivery of AI solutions, troubleshoot complex issues, and support innovation through pilot evaluations and advanced use case development
Understand customers' overall data estate, business priorities, and IT success measures
Innovate with AI solutions that drive business value
Facilitate scalable delivery through strong technical program management utilizing a factory model/approach, driving program awareness and demand across the regional operating units
Attend in-flight project status meetings to monitor progress and identify support needs
Engage directly with complex or non-standard customer use cases beyond existing accelerators
Participate in intake reviews for milestone sizing, objection handling, and technical scoping
Deliver solutions with high performance, security, scalability, maintainability, repeatability, reusability, and reliability upon deployment
Gather insights from customers and partners
Drive Consumption Growth: Develop opportunities to enhance Customer Success and help customers extract value from their Microsoft investments
Understanding of consumption metrics and their reflection on program effectiveness
Ability to collaborate with local teams for nominations and intake support
Leverage subject matter expertise to identify resolutions for customer blockers
Follow best practices and utilize repeatable IP
Identify and contribute repeatable IP and assets that create velocity in deployment and drives customer value from their Unified investment
Continuously look to improve upon these assets utilizing the best of field inputs
Evaluate pilot opportunities for potential integration into existing offerings
Architect Azure Infrastructure and Azure Application Migrations Solutions: Apply technical knowledge to design solutions aligned with business and IT needs
Create Innovate with Azure Infrastructure and Azure Application Migrations roadmaps, lead POCs and MVPs, and ensure long-term technical viability
Advocate for Customers: Share insights and best practices, collaborate with the Factory team to address key blockers, and influence improvements, roadmap and feature prioritization
Debug technical issues and provide fixes for engagements encountering blockers
Stay updated on market trends, collaborate with the Analytics & AI technical community, and educate customers about GitHub Copilot and the Azure AI platform
Through engaging with field teams, share expertise, drive factory pipeline, and promote Factory to accelerate customer success, as well as collate feedback upon execution to drive improvement and leverage field teams inputs

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience
4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external)
4+ years experience working on technical projects
Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
Demonstrated proficiency in verbal and written communication, as well as analytical and presentation skills in Spanish and/or Portuguese
Breadth of technical experience and knowledge in foundational security, foundational AI, architecture design, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise in one or more of the following: Deep Domain Expertise in Azure Application Migrations Areas: Domain expertise in one of the Azure Infrastructure and Azure Application and Database Migrations specific areas OR hands-on experience working with the respective products at the expert level
Programming Languages and Integration: Knowledge with Java, .NET, JavaScript, Python or similar programming languages in the context of application development, and ability to integrate GitHub Copilot and Azure AI with other services (e.g., Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, Docker, API Management). Also, enterprise-scale technical experience and depth with one or more areas of the Azure Infrastructure and Azure Application + Database Migrations (Azure core technologies including Apps, compute, networking, storage, and databases, along with identity, security, and monitoring services for cloud solutions)
Architecting Enterprise-Grade Solutions: The ability to create and explain 3-tier architecture diagrams, system context diagrams, system interaction diagrams, etc. Proven experience building enterprise-grade, Azure Infrastructure and Azure Application -focused solutions on the cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) for customers, from Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) leading to production deployments
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Deployment: Understanding of Bicep, Terraform, or Azure Resource Manager and familiarity with configuration and deployment of IaC templates in a secure environment
Competitive Landscape: Understanding the competitive landscape is valuable, candidates should be aware of key AI platforms beyond Azure, such as AWS and GCP

Nice to have

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience
4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external)
4+ years experience working on technical projects
Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
Demonstrated proficiency in verbal and written communication, as well as analytical and presentation skills in Spanish and/or Portuguese
Breadth of technical experience and knowledge in foundational security, foundational AI, architecture design, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise in one or more of the following: Deep Domain Expertise in Azure Application Migrations Areas: Domain expertise in one of the Azure Infrastructure and Azure Application and Database Migrations specific areas OR hands-on experience working with the respective products at the expert level
Programming Languages and Integration: Knowledge with Java, .NET, JavaScript, Python or similar programming languages in the context of application development, and ability to integrate GitHub Copilot and Azure AI with other services (e.g., Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, Docker, API Management). Also, enterprise-scale technical experience and depth with one or more areas of the Azure Infrastructure and Azure Application + Database Migrations (Azure core technologies including Apps, compute, networking, storage, and databases, along with identity, security, and monitoring services for cloud solutions)
Architecting Enterprise-Grade Solutions: The ability to create and explain 3-tier architecture diagrams, system context diagrams, system interaction diagrams, etc. Proven experience building enterprise-grade, Azure Infrastructure and Azure Application -focused solutions on the cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) for customers, from Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) leading to production deployments
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Deployment: Understanding of Bicep, Terraform, or Azure Resource Manager and familiarity with configuration and deployment of IaC templates in a secure environment
Competitive Landscape: Understanding the competitive landscape is valuable, candidates should be aware of key AI platforms beyond Azure, such as AWS and GCP

Microsoft Corporation - All Job Offers

Select Country

Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Platforms (CAIP) Factory

Job Description

Job Responsibility

Requirements

Nice to have

Looking for more opportunities?

Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Platforms (CAIP) Factory

IT Training Lead

K Kitchen Representative

K Kitchen Representative

Restaurant Assistant Manager

Plant Operator - Crushing and Screen

Graduate Student Instructors

Shift Supervisor

Our AI answers in your language