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Cloud Solution Architect (Early in Profession)

Microsoft· Cloud Solution Architecture
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Hybrid (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra or Perth)full-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Cloud Solution Architect role at Microsoft targeting individuals with 2 to 4 years of experience to assist customers in accelerating digital transformation using cloud, data, analytics, AI, and modern application technologies. Emphasizes Azure, data and analytics, security, and AI, with a focus on customer outcomes and value-based delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Supports team in identifying new opportunities for Consumption, Usage & Unified expansion (especially Enhanced Solutions) at scale, based on customer business value and a clear understanding of the Microsoft value proposition to empower cloud success, strengthen security and resiliency, and drive AI innovation.
  • Learns how to actively listen, respectfully challenge customers and partners, build trust, and advocate for alternative architectures, solutions, and approaches that enhance customer requirements.
  • Assists team members in identifying industry trends, gathering customer and partner insights, and mapping architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer business outcomes.
  • Proactively captures opportunities in appropriate systems, processes, and tools, working collaboratively across Microsoft to execute opportunities aligned with the Customer Engagement Model.
  • Learns how to deliver solutions in line with company methodologies, including Value-Based Deliverables (VBDs), training, technical validation, and advisory services, while following proven practices that help customers achieve operational readiness and business goals.
  • Begins to leverage change management practices and support customer deployment and long-term organizational adoption to increase customer satisfaction and drive consumption and usage.
  • Supports team efforts in guiding customers toward well-architected, secure, resilient, AI-enabled, cost- and performance-optimized solutions that increase retention and expansion opportunities.
  • Supports more experienced peers in providing feedback to the Unified Delivery Team to refine and improve Value-Based Deliverables (VBDs).
  • Learns how to operate according to operational excellence standards throughout all sales stages, activities, and systems of record.
  • Supports collaboration across Microsoft and customer or partner teams to achieve business objectives and improve customer satisfaction.
  • Learns how to manage business and technical risks, adapting methodologies and applying governance principles to identify, communicate, and minimize risk.
  • Executes work in compliance with industry and Microsoft guidelines and procedures while learning how to prioritize competing demands and align work to business priorities.
  • Learns how to identify, escalate, and mitigate blockers to accelerate solution deployment, value realization, and usage/consumption.
  • Develops business, technical, industry, and enterprise knowledge and learns how to apply it to architecture and support projects that address customer requirements and constraints.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field AND a minimum of 2 years of related experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, IT consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, or architecture.

Skills

Required:SQLPower BIPythoncloud technologiesAPIssecuritycommunicationcustomer outcomes
Nice to have:automation

Benefits

  • (Not explicitly listed in the provided text)
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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