Cloud Solution Architect

Role Description

We are looking to hire a hands-on Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to join our diverse, talented, high performance, and innovative team, focused on driving Azure Infrastructure and Azure Application Migrations via the Cloud Accelerate Factory. The Cloud Acceleration Factory is best suited for individuals that are highly technical, solution focused and have a passion for Project Management.

CSAs are senior individual contributors who operate globally and engage directly with customers. It is a hands-on technical and governance role spanning across design, build, and production. Candidates are expected to comfortably switch from a whiteboard to the keyboard. This is a truly exciting role that will feature unique and challenging technical problems to solve and to help our customers succeed.

Responsibilities

• Customer-Centric Approach:
  • Play a pivotal role in the Azure Infrastructure and Azure Application Migrations Factory, providing technical enablement, operational support, and strategic engagement across customer projects.
  • Ensure successful delivery of AI solutions, troubleshoot complex issues, and support innovation through pilot evaluations and advanced use case development.
  • Understand customers' overall data estate, business priorities, and IT success measures.
  • Innovate with AI solutions that drive business value.
  • Facilitate scalable delivery through strong technical program management utilizing a factory model/approach.
  • Attend in-flight project status meetings to monitor progress and identify support needs.
  • Engage directly with complex or non-standard customer use cases beyond existing accelerators.
  • Participate in intake reviews for milestone sizing, objection handling, and technical scoping.
• Ensure Solution Excellence:
  • Deliver solutions with high performance, security, scalability, maintainability, repeatability, reusability, and reliability upon deployment.
  • Gather insights from customers and partners.
• Business Impact:
  • Drive Consumption Growth: Develop opportunities to enhance Customer Success and help customers extract value from their Microsoft investments.
  • Operational Awareness: Understanding of consumption metrics and their reflection on program effectiveness.
  • Unblock Customer Challenges: Leverage subject matter expertise to identify resolutions for customer blockers.
  • Identify and contribute repeatable IP and assets that create velocity in deployment and drive customer value.
  • Evaluate pilot opportunities for potential integration into existing offerings.
• Architect Azure Infrastructure and Azure Application Migrations Solutions:
  • Apply technical knowledge to design solutions aligned with business and IT needs.
  • Create Innovate with Azure Infrastructure and Azure Application Migrations roadmaps, lead POCs and MVPs, and ensure long-term technical viability.
• Technical Leadership:
  • Advocate for Customers: Share insights and best practices, collaborate with the Factory team to address key blockers.
  • Resolve technical blockers: Debug technical issues and provide fixes for engagements encountering blockers.
  • Continuous Learning: Stay updated on market trends, collaborate with the Analytics & AI technical community.
  • Accelerate Outcomes: Share expertise, drive factory pipeline, and promote Factory to accelerate customer success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ 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.
• 4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
• 4+ years experience working on technical projects.
• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).
• Breadth of technical experience and knowledge in foundational security, foundational AI, architecture design.
• Deep Expertise in Databases including SQL, Oracle and more.
• Deep Domain Expertise in Azure Application Migrations Areas.
• Architecting Enterprise-Grade Solutions: Proven experience building enterprise-grade, Azure Infrastructure and Azure Application-focused solutions on the cloud.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Deployment: Understanding of Bicep, Terraform, or Azure Resource Manager.
• Core AI & ML Concepts: Familiarity with AI & ML foundational knowledge.
• Agentic Workflows: Familiarity with Semantic Kernel, MCP, Langchain, or other agentic frameworks.
• Generative AI and Responsible AI: Knowledge of current and emerging AI technology.
• Competitive Landscape: Understanding of the competitive landscape, including key AI platforms beyond Azure.

Requirements

• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship.

Benefits

• The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year.
• Different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.
• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
• Find additional benefits and pay information here .