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Cloud Solution Architect

Microsoft· Cloud Solution Architecture
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Reston, VA$86.1k - $169.8kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Cloud Solution Architect focused on Cloud & AI Data to design and deliver secure, governed, AI-ready data estates on Microsoft Azure for customer production-scale AI and agent use cases; involves architecture design, POCs, production deployments, and leveraging Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Purview, and related AI capabilities.

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 dispatched engagements, partnering with CSAMs to ensure Azure consumption and customer success plans are accurate, aligned, and feasible.
  • Use and contribute repeatable IP, templates, frameworks, and agents to accelerate deployment, improve consistency, grow Data share, and support Azure consumption outcomes.
  • Provide delivery oversight and escalation support for Factory, Unified, and data acceleration engagements across Data & Analytics workloads.
  • 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 deep expertise in Cloud & AI Data priorities, market trends, competitive insights, and Microsoft’s evolving data, AI, and agent capabilities.
  • Maintain advanced proficiency in priority workloads, including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Purview, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cosmos DB, Microsoft IQ, and related AI/agent scenarios.
  • Demonstrate a growth mindset by aligning skills to customer and team priorities, contributing to communities, sharing reusable learnings, and mentoring others.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field OR equivalent experience
  • 2+ years of 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 OR equivalent experience

Skills

Required:Cloud & AI Data architectureData governanceAzure ecosystem (Fabric, Databricks, Purview, SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cosmos DB)Customer engagement
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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