Senior Digital Cloud Solution Architect – Data and AI Full-time

S mall, Medium & C orporate (SMC) and Digital Sales is the common global scale engine across Microsoft Customer and Partner solutions group, helping customers digitally transform their business to drive superior outcomes leveraging our partner ecosystem. You will collaborate with your colleagues in region and digitally to achieve our objectives while embracing our culture of diversity, wellbeing, sustainability, and learning. If you love customers and digital solutions, join us and see the value we create for customers, partners, and each othe r.

Do you love working with customers to achieve their business outcomes? Would you love to build expertise around the leading, next generation cloud services? As the Senior Digital Cloud Solution Architect – Data and AI, you will play a crucial role in enabling customers to achieve their goals through strategic investments in Microsoft technology. Leveraging your technical expertise in Azure and Data & AI solutions, you will lead technical discussions with customers, guiding them to extract maximum value from their Microsoft investments and identifying solutions to overcome challenges hindering the success of their Data and AI projects. This opportunity provides a platform for accelerating your career growth, refining technical and collaborative skills, and deepening your proficiency in cloud technologies. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home. Join us in shaping the future of Data and AI solutions at Microsoft.

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:

Customer Success

• Lead customer engagements to achieve revenue and Azure consumption targets, aligning their business needs with Microsoft solutions.
• Build strong customer relationships by conducting in-depth analyses of usage patterns and needs, delivering recommendations to optimize and expand cloud investments.
• Facilitate Architectural Design Sessions to create actionable plans for implementing solutions that align with customer business goals and technical environments.

Business Impact

• Guide customer strategy and future growth by leveraging Microsoft programs and solutions, fostering customer engagement and driving impactful outcomes.
• Act as an advocate for customers, providing feedback to Microsoft on challenges, blockers, and opportunities for improvement to ensure continuous alignment and support.
• Drive business results by retaining and growing customer investments, ensuring their long-term success on Azure.

Technical Leadership

• Apply technical expertise and insights to design modernization roadmaps, architecting solutions that meet business and IT objectives while incorporating Data and AI technologies (including Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Machine Learning and AI services).
• Collaborate across teams, including the Specialist Team Unit and Cloud Migration Factory, to orchestrate resources and deliver seamless Azure solutions.
• Grow domain knowledge by engaging with customers and colleagues to deepen understanding of architecture and competitive landscapes.
• Share ideas, insights, and strategic-technical input with peers, providing thought leadership to enhance team expertise. Act as a role model in the architect community, sharing knowledge to support career development and drive impactful business outcomes.

Other

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales
  • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales
  • OR Relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms AND 3+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales
  • OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science , Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technical architect, consulting, design and implementation, and/or sales
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years experience with cloud-based solution designs, migrations and management of technology
• 6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
• 6+ years experience leading technical projects.
• Technical Certifications in Cloud platforms, notably in Azure

Digital Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $49.90 – $96.30 per hour. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $64.28 – $105.38 per hour.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 9, 2024

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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