Cloud Solution Architect (Cloud & AI Architecture)

• Build trusted relationships with key customer business and IT decision makers to drive long-term adoption and serve as the Voice of the Customer-sharing insights and removing blockers through collaboration with Microsoft engineering and product teams.
• Lead end-to-end architecture and design sessions, producing secure, scalable, and resilient solution architectures aligned to customer outcomes across apps, data, integration, security, and AI using frameworks like CAF and WAF.
• Own end-to-end technical engagement results, ensuring completeness and accuracy of technical plans, architecture decisions, and success criteria in collaboration with the CSAM and account team.
• Drive modernization initiatives and adoption milestones (e.g., proof of concept, pilot, and production), spanning application modernization, data platforms, security, and AI workloads.
• Ensure end-to-end solution readiness for security, reliability, performance, cost, and operations-enabling production-scale business and AI scenarios.
• Deliver repeatable architecture patterns and technical assets, and contribute to centralized IP development to accelerate customer deployments and achieve targeted outcomes.
• Identify and resolve technical blockers (architecture, security, integration, data, and operational readiness) to accelerate go-live and ensure delivery excellence across key engagements.
• Generate incremental pipeline from each engagement by driving next best actions, identifying expansion opportunities, and aligning with account priorities and support motions.
• Maintain technical intensity through continuous skilling and certifications across priority solution areas such as Azure architecture, app modernization, data platforms, security, integration, and AI (e.g., Azure AI, AKS/App Service, Azure SQL/PostgreSQL, Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Entra).
• Engage in technical communities, share best practices, and contribute to knowledge reuse to accelerate customer transformation and success.

• Proven experience designing and delivering secure, scalable, and resilient end-to-end solutions on Microsoft Azure across one or more domains (applications, data, security, integration, infrastructure, AI).

• Demonstrated expertise in applying the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework (WAF) to customer engagements.

• Hands-on experience leading modernization and adoption initiatives from strategy through production (e.g., app modernization, data platform modernization, identity and security, and AI enablement)

• Familiarity with Azure platform capabilities across compute and app platforms, data services, integration, identity and security, and AI (e.g., AKS/App Service, Azure SQL/PostgreSQL, Azure Integration Services, Microsoft Entra, Defender for Cloud, Azure AI services).

• 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.

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