Cloud Solution Architect - Digital & Application Innovation

As AI transforms our industry and creates new opportunities for developers, we want to expand our team of highly talented cloud solution architects.

As a Cloud Solution Architect, you will assist customers in achieving their digital transformation objectives. You will serve as an advisor to help customers modernize and innovate their application landscape. Responsibilities include leading technical architecture and design sessions and contributing to a customer success plan that supports the transformation of their application estate. This role requires continuous updating of technical skills in the latest AI-integrated technologies from GitHub and Microsoft, and combining technical knowledge with business understanding to foster customer relationships. This position involves both technical expertise and business acumen.

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.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND multiple years of professional experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies and software development/support/consulting
  • OR equivalent experience.

Additional Qualifications:

• Multiple years of experience working in a customer-facing role (internal and/or external).
• Multiple years of experience working on software projects (internal and/or external).
• Technical Certifications in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).
• Proficient in at least one programming language, e.g. C#, Java, Golang, Rust, JavaScript or Python with associated frameworks.
• Multiple years of experience with developer tooling such as Visual Studio, VSCode, Azure DevOps and GitHub and/or competitive tools.

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. 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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Customer Centricity

• Support the adoption and technological enablement of customers by understanding their business and IT objectives, and defining how Microsoft's cloud-native, DevOps, AI, and low-code capabilities can contribute to positive outcomes.
• Act as the voice of the customer by driving new feedback into engineering and generating new insights on usage and application patterns.
• Coordinate with other Microsoft cloud solution architects to ensure that customers can leverage deep subject matter expertise across all technological areas.
• Ensure that customer solutions exhibit in performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and reliability upon deployment.

Business Impact

• Contribute to Azure revenue goals. Guide customer workloads in production and support solution deployments through customer-invested enablement packages. While ensuring that customers get value from their Microsoft investments.
• Drive customer/partner relationships to anticipate, identify, escalate, and work to resolve technical blockers to accelerate consumption and solution implementations.

Technical Leadership

• Learn new technologies or services that are aligned to customer needs and common patterns seen in cloud native application development.
• Lead architecture and design discussions with key technical stakeholders at our customers.