Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Data Platform

Overview

Cloud Solution Architect – Cloud & AI Data Platform role  are looking for a Cloud Solution Architect with deep knowledge in data platforms and analytics to support customers in building secure, scalable, and AI-ready solutions on Microsoft Azure. In this customer-facing role, you’ll guide organizations through their data modernization and AI journeys—leading architectural design sessions, proof-of-concept initiatives, and production deployments for mission-critical workloads.

Your focus will be on ensuring performance, resiliency, and security across solutions that drive measurable business value.

As a key member of the Cloud & AI Data Platform team, you’ll use established repeatable IP and execution frameworks to deliver high-quality outcomes and accelerate solution adoption. You’ll work with technologies such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Cosmos DB, and Purview, helping unlock the full value of data and AI investments.

• Operate according to required operational excellence and proven practice standards throughout all sales stages and activities; collaborate across Microsoft and customer/partner teams to achieve objectives and increase satisfaction.
• Identify, escalate, and mitigate blockers to accelerate solution deployment and value realization; develop business, technical, industry, and enterprise knowledge to support architecture and projects.
• Identify new opportunities for consumption, usage, and unified expansion; listen to customers/partners, advocate effective architectures/solutions, and map customer insights to business outcomes.
• Deliver solutions aligned with company methodologies and proven practices; guide customers toward well-architected, secure, resilient, and AI-enabled solutions that optimize cost and performance.

• Focus on customer/partner experience, analyzing goals and defining success criteria; address dissatisfaction and contribute to strategies that improve value realization and transformation.
• Translate customer problems into industry solutions aligned with Microsoft strategy; facilitate adoption across cross-solution areas; build relationships with technical decision makers and bridge to business decision makers.
• Represent the voice of the customer to engineering and product teams; identify patterns across customers/territories and contribute to insights that influence roadmaps and IP development.

• Identify market opportunities in solution areas and guide partners in developing offerings and solutions; support initial customer implementations and deliver technical enablement.
• Drive growth of solution utilization with partners by unblocking technical blockers in deals; provide pre-sales and proof-of-concept support.

• Demonstrate technical readiness and influence others to develop their own readiness; mentor and lead readiness activities within the team.
• Contribute to virtual teams and engage with internal and external audiences to raise Microsoft’s profile; support IP development and pattern recognition for scalable models.
• Identify gaps in delivery and communicate improvements to drive scalable solutions across customers.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field and 2+ years of experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, IT consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, or consulting. OR equivalent experience.

• Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the job duties.

• 8+ years of…