Microsoft · 7 hours ago
Cloud Solution Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$85K/yr - $170K/yr
2+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company focused on empowering customers through innovative solutions. The role of Cloud Solution Architect involves developing high-quality technical assets for application modernization and migration, engaging with customers to drive AI adoption, and influencing product roadmaps through customer feedback.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Unleash Talent to Unlock Customer/Partner Value
Act as a Trusted AI Advisor by completing AI training and applying architecture best practices to accelerate customer AI adoption
Demonstrate Technical Intensity through quarterly Cloud & AI training, certifications, and advanced proficiency (L300/L400) in Azure workloads including AI Apps, Infrastructure, and Data
Engage as a Community Mentor, contributing to IP development with engineering, participating in the Shadow program, and fostering technical excellence across the Cloud & AI community
Build Trust Through Product Excellence
Develop high-quality, repeatable IP offerings for App & Data modernization
Prioritize Security by delivering secure Azure architectures, with emphasis on Defender for Cloud (secure by default)
Ensure Reliability and Resiliency by performing end-to-end quality assurance of architecture designs, addressing Priority Zero vulnerabilities, and implementing multi-zone/multi-region strategies
Champion the Voice of the Customer/Partner, influencing product roadmaps and acting as a trusted technical advisor to Customer Success leadership
Differentiate Through World-Class Customer Experience
Engage with Senior Executives (e.g., CTOs, CIOs) to define transformative Cloud & AI strategies and lead Azure consumption planning aligned with customer success goals
Drive Customer/Partner Outcomes by orchestrating delivery across Microsoft teams (MCEM), managing risks, and ensuring timely closure of committed milestones
Inspire customers with Customer Zero best practices, showcasing Microsoft’s AI capabilities and success stories
Drive Operational Excellence Through AI
Use AI-Driven Business Insights to inform strategic decisions aligned with customer objectives, in collaboration with management
Uphold Operational Excellence by adhering to MCEM guidelines, ensuring 100% labor logging, and maintaining customer communication
Maximize ROI on Microsoft Investments by leveraging scale execution engines like Cloud Accelerate Factory and providing oversight for Unified delivery engagements
Accelerate Customer/Partner Outcomes Through Delivery Excellence
Deliver Unified offerings for Innovation workloads as needed and harvest IP and execution insights from these deliveries to continuously improve delivery offerings
Achieve Cloud Accelerate Factory ACR Targets through hands-on delivery, proactive support, and optimization of delivery proposals using Factory assessments
Lead Delivery Excellence on high-value or underperforming accounts, ensuring milestone completion and high customer satisfaction (VSAT)
Drive Consumption and Usage Impact by protecting and expanding ACR base, enabling MACC and Unified renewals, and delivering consumption excellence across Azure Solution Plays
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 2+ 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
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 5+ 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 3+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience
2+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external)
2+ years experience working on technical projects
Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
In-depth knowledge of Azure or other cloud platforms is essential. This includes experience with cloud architecture, deployment, databases and management of cloud services
Working knowledge of software development environments (Visual Studio, VSCode, other IDEs), DevOps and build and release processes (Git, Github, CI/CD, testing), building and deploying containers, creating and deploying IaC templates with Bicep or Terraform
Software engineering experience with Programming languages such as C#, Java, GO, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Rust
Experience with databases such as Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle
Experience with scripting in PowerShell, Bash, or Python
Design/implementation/deployment experience of micro services architecture is a plus
Company
Microsoft
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