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Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Data Platform

Microsoft· Cloud Solution Architecture
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United States$106.4k - $203.6kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Cloud Solution Architect focused on Cloud & AI Data Platform, guiding customers through data modernization and AI journeys on Microsoft Azure with emphasis on performance, resiliency, security, and measurable business value.

Responsibilities

  • Operates according to required operational excellence and proven practice standards throughout all sales stages/activities/tools of record (e.g., pipeline updates, time tracking). Collaborates across Microsoft and customer/partner teams through on-strategy delivery to achieve customer/partner objectives and increase customer/partner satisfaction. Proactively manages business and technical risks, adapts methodology and applies governance principles to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks. Executes work in compliance with industry and Microsoft guidelines and procedures. Continuously prioritizes among competing demands in their work and identifies where impact occurs with customers, ensuring alignment with business priorities and goals.
  • Delivers solutions in line with company methodologies (e.g., product offerings such as value-based deliverables [VBDs], advice, training, technical validation), ensuring proven practices and patterns are followed to prepare customers for operational readiness and achievement of their business goals. Leveraging change management practices to deploy for long-term organizational adoption to increase customer satisfaction and drive consumption/usage. Guides customers/partners toward well-architected, secure, resilient, AI-enabled, cost- and performance-optimized solutions to increase retention and expansion opportunities. Provides feedback to Unified Delivery Team on VBDs.
  • Proactively identifies new opportunities for Consumption, Usage & Unified expansion (especially Enhanced Solutions) at scale based on business value to customer/partner and Microsoft value proposition. Maps architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer outcomes. Proactively captures opportunities in appropriate systems, processes, and tools, working with the organization to execute on opportunities aligned with Microsoft's Customer Engagement Model.
  • Identifies, escalates, and mitigates blockers to accelerate solution deployment, value realization and usage/consumption. Applies business, technical, industry, and enterprise knowledge to meet requirements and resolve constraints.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, IT consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Operational excellence and governanceSolution architectureCustomer engagement and communication
Nice to have:Data platform technologies (Fabric, Databricks, Cosmos DB, Purview)Programming (Python, R, SQL)Cloud certifications
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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