About the role
As a Cloud Solution Architect, you’ll play an instrumental role in helping customers migrate, modernize and secure their infrastructure, applications and data, laying the groundwork for scalable, production-ready AI solutions.
You’ll work with forward-thinking IT leaders, tackling real-world challenges and designing resilient architectures using frameworks like CAF and WAF. Your expertise will guide customers through critical milestones, leveraging proven IP and delivery engines to accelerate adoption and unlock value.
This is an opportunity to deepen your knowledge across Azure infrastructure, applications, databases and hybrid environments. You’ll be part of a team that values precision, creativity and impact - where your decisions influence outcomes and your growth is continuous.
Find out more about our culture and values, and the environment you will be working in.
Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with key customer IT decision makers to drive long-term cloud adoption and serve as the Voice of the Customer—sharing insights and removing blockers through collaboration with Microsoft engineering teams.
- Lead architectural design sessions and deliver secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions aligned to customer business goals using frameworks like CAF and WAF.
- Lead application modernization design sessions and deliver secure, scalable, and resilient solutions based on Azure PAAS (functions, Containers, AKS, …)
- Own the end-to-end technical delivery results, ensuring completeness and accuracy of consumption and customer success plans in collaboration with the CSAM.
- Drive migration and modernization initiatives, including committed proof of concept and production milestones, across infrastructure, data, and AI workloads.
- Ensure customer environments are optimized for health, resiliency, security, and performance - enabling production-scale AI use cases.
- Deliver repeatable IP and contribute to centralized IP development to accelerate deployment and achieve targeted outcomes.
- Identify and resolve technical blockers to accelerate go-live and ensure delivery excellence across key Factory engagements.
- Generate incremental pipeline from each engagement by driving next best actions and aligning with Unified Enterprise Support (ES) priorities.
- Maintain technical intensity through continuous skilling and certifications in priority workloads such as Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, AKS, App Service, AVS, Windows, Linux and Defender for Cloud.
- Engage in technical communities, share best practices, and contribute to knowledge reuse to accelerate customer transformation and success.
Qualifications
- Experience designing and delivering secure, scalable, and resilient Apps & infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure
- Hands-on experience leading migration and modernization initiatives across infrastructure, data, Apps, and AI workloads
- Familiarity with Azure services including Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, AKS, App Service, AVS, Windows, Linux, and Defender for Cloud
- Able to speak English and Spanish and use both in a business environment
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field OR equivalent experience
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Skills & Tags
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Microsoft is a technology giant shaping global computing, attracting talent interested in innovation and impact across software, cloud, and AI sectors.
What's promising
- •Strong commitment to innovation in AI and cloud computing.
- •Diverse range of roles from technical to managerial, offering career growth.
- •Financially stable with a robust global presence and market influence.
What to watch
- •Complex organizational structure can slow decision-making processes.
- •High competition for roles may limit entry-level opportunities.
- •Potential for work-life balance challenges in high-demand positions.
Why Microsoft
- •Pioneer in personal and business computing with a legacy of innovation.
- •Extensive global reach with a diverse workforce and inclusive culture.
- •Leader in integrating AI into mainstream software and cloud services.
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- 1975
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