Cloud Solution Architect (Cloud & AI Infrastructure) - Microsoft

Join Microsoft as a Cloud Solution Architect to help customers achieve their business priorities and guide them through their Cloud & AI transformation journey. You will work closely with customer IT leaders to design and implement scalable solutions, resolve blockers, and accelerate the adoption of Azure services using frameworks like Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework (WAF). This role involves delivering engagements focused on migration, modernization, and operational excellence, ensuring customer environments are optimized for health, resiliency, security, and performance to support production-scale AI use cases. You will also contribute to centralized intellectual property development and engage in technical communities to share best practices and accelerate customer transformation.

This position requires a strong background in cloud infrastructure, applications, databases, and hybrid environments, with a focus on Azure. You will be responsible for translating customer challenges into actionable solutions that deliver high ROI and foster long-term value. The role emphasizes collaboration with technical and sales teams to identify opportunities for expansion and business value realization. Continuous skilling and certifications in priority workloads such as App Service/PaaS Services, Networking, Windows, Linux, Modern Databases, Defender for Cloud, and SAP are essential to maintain technical intensity and drive delivery excellence.

• Create business value by translating customer challenges into actionable solutions aligned to high ROI customer outcomes.
• Lead architectural design sessions and deliver secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions aligned to customer business goals using frameworks like CAF and WAF.
• Partner with technical and sales teams to identify opportunities and develop tailored solutions to drive expansion and business value realization.
• Drive migration and modernization initiatives, including committed proof of concept and production milestones, across infrastructure, data, SAP, 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.
• Generate incremental pipeline from each engagement by driving next best actions and aligning with business priorities.
• Maintain technical intensity through continuous skilling and certifications in priority workloads such as App Service/PaaS Services, Networking, Windows, Linux, Modern Databases, Defender for Cloud and SAP (Native + RISE).
• Engage in technical communities, share best practices, and contribute to knowledge reuse to accelerate customer transformation and success.

• 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.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in Azure cloud architecture and infrastructure solutions.
• Microsoft or competitor equivalent (e.g., AWS) certification in relevant technologies (e.g., Azure, etc).
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation certification or equivalent service management certification.
• Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent Project Management certification.
• Prosci or equivalent certification.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ 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.
• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting.
• Strong experience in AI workloads and production-scale AI use cases.