Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Applications

** Overview*
* Are you insatiably curious, deeply passionate about the realm of AI & Applications, and ready to tackle complex challenges in a dynamic environment? If so, we invite you to join our team as a  
** Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) - Cloud & AI Applications
** for commercial customers e, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, working on cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies to drive meaningful impact. Join us and be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.

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** Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Applications
** to help customers bring their AI-powered applications to production scale on Azure. In this customer-facing role, you'll lead technical engagements across design, build, and operations, removing blockers and accelerating adoption of Azure AI, App Services, Serverless, Containers, and Git Hub. As part of the Cloud + AI Apps team, you will deliver engagements with accountability for customer satisfaction, delivery excellence, Cloud consumption growth, and successful deployment for the customer.

You will ensure production readiness of mission-critical workloads like Azure AI Foundry, AKS, App Services, and Git Hub with a variety of languages like C#, Python, and .NET, plus collaborate with customer executives, developers, and engineers to turn innovation into real-world outcomes.

By applying to this role, you will be considered for multiple opportunities within Microsoft across the United States including locations beyond where the role is posted. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home. Travel percentages will very according to role.

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*
* + Engage with customer IT and business leaders to understand their application and AI priorities, and design secure, scalable solutions that drive business value and customer satisfaction.

+ Lead technical engagements across architecture design, Proof of Concepts (POCs), and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) to accelerate adoption of Azure AI, App Services, Containers, and Git Hub.

+ Own the end-to-end technical delivery results, ensuring completeness and accuracy of consumption and customer success plans in collaboration with the Customer Success Account Manager.

+ Drive next best actions and generate incremental Cloud pipeline from each engagement.

+ Deliver repeatable intellectual property (IP) and contribute to centralized IP development to accelerate deployment and achieve targeted outcomes.

+ Provide delivery oversight and escalation support for key Cloud Acceleration Factory engagements across AI and App Innovation projects.

+ Lead the health, resiliency, security, and optimization of mission-critical workloads, ensuring readiness for production-scale AI use cases.

+ Act as the Voice of the Customer by sharing insights and feedback with engineering teams to influence product improvements and remove adoption blockers.

+ Support customer skilling through technical workshops, readiness activities, and recommendations that ensure solution performance, maintainability, and reliability.

+ Maintain deep technical expertise and stay current with Azure, AI, Git Hub, and cloud-native development trends, while contributing to internal and external technical communities.

+ Be accredited and certified to deliver with advanced and expert-level proficiency in priority workloads including Azure AI Foundry, AKS, App Service, APIM, and Git Hub.

+ Collaborate hands‑on with customer development teams to understand their application landscape and constraints, then design and drive application migration and modernization strategies that improve scalability, resiliency, and readiness for AI‑powered workloads on Azure.

+ Demonstrate a growth mindset by continuously aligning…