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Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) - AI-ready Data Platform

Microsoft· Cloud Solution Architecture
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Hybrid (United Kingdom), Hybrid (Netherlands)£61.9k - £105.5kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Cloud Solution Architect focused on data solutions to help globally operating enterprise customers build unified, governed, secure and AI-ready data estates on Microsoft Azure. Leads design and delivery of data platform, analytics and database solutions to enable production-scale AI and agent scenarios for iCSU EMEA customers.

Responsibilities

  • Engage customer IT and business leaders to understand data estates, AI priorities, governance needs, success measures and business outcomes; design secure, scalable Cloud & AI Data solutions for unified, governed, AI-ready estates.
  • Lead architecture design, create Data & AI platform roadmaps, and drive POCs, pilots and production milestones across analytics, database, Fabric, Foundry, Microsoft IQ and agent-enabled scenarios.
  • Own technical delivery for engagements, partnering with other technical and non-technical roles to ensure Azure consumption and customer ambitions are planned and met.
  • Use and contribute repeatable IP, templates, frameworks and agents to accelerate deployment, improve consistency, grow Data share and support Azure consumption outcomes.
  • Lead workload health, resiliency, sovereignty, security, capacity management and optimization for mission-critical data workloads and production-scale AI and agent use cases.
  • Resolve technical blockers and adoption issues and share customer and field feedback with product and engineering teams to improve platform readiness and outcomes.
  • Maintain advanced proficiency in priority workloads, including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Data Governance Solutions, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cosmos DB and Microsoft IQ, together with market and competitive insights; demonstrate a growth mindset by contributing to communities, sharing reusable learnings and mentoring others.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND experience in cloud, data platform, analytics, database, AI, or infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, data engineering, database administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience
  • Proven hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise data platforms (lakehouse, analytics, database) on Azure with at least one of Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL or Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
  • Business fluency in English.

Skills

Required:AzureAzure DatabricksData GovernanceSQL databases (Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cosmos DB)AI-ready data foundationsCommunication with executives
Nice to have:Microsoft Fabric
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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