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Cloud Solution Architect - Data & Analytics

Microsoft· Cloud Solution Architecture
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Hybrid (Montreal, QC), Hybrid (Quebec City, QC)CA$96k - CA$177.6kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) specializing in Data & Analytics for Canadian Enterprise Commercial customers, focused on modernizing data estates and accelerating AI transformation on Microsoft Azure. Technical, customer-facing role covering design, build, and operations across Azure data/analytics portfolio (Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure Databricks, Azure Databases).

Responsibilities

  • Understand customers’ data estate, business and IT priorities, and success measures – data modernization, governance, analytics, and Generative and Agentic AI readiness – and proactively identify opportunities for cloud consumption at scale based on business value.
  • Architect and deliver modern data platforms on Azure, leading modernization and migration from legacy systems to Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, Data Factory, Data Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence), Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake, and Azure Databases (Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cosmos DB, Oracle Database@Azure).
  • Guide customers toward well-architected solutions that are secure, resilient, AI-ready, and cost- and performance-optimized, applying the Well-Architected Framework, landing zones, and proven data modelling, ETL/ELT and performance-optimization practices to prepare them for operational readiness and sustainable adoption.
  • Lead the health, resiliency, security, capacity management and data sovereignty of mission-critical data workloads, including data residency and regulatory compliance requirements applicable to Canadian enterprise and regulated industries (e.g., financial services, public sector, healthcare).
  • Provide technical leadership in architecture reviews, proofs of concept (POCs), minimum viable products (MVPs) and production deployments, and enable advanced analytics and machine learning scenarios through Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Azure Machine Learning and Azure AI Foundry.
  • Drive customer and partner relationships to anticipate, identify, escalate and resolve technical blockers, acting as the voice of the customer by channelling product feedback and adoption insights back into Microsoft engineering to influence roadmap improvements.
  • Support customer skilling through technical workshops, hackathons and cloud readiness activities, share best practices and reusable intellectual property (IP) across the data architecture community, and maintain deep, current knowledge of Azure data services, market trends and competitive insights as a practitioner of SQL, Python, Spark/PySpark, KQL or DAX.

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.
  • Proficiency in verbal and written communication in both English and French is required.

Skills

Required:Data platform architectureAzure data servicesWell-Architected FrameworkSecurity & complianceLeadership & stakeholder managementCommunication (EN/FR)
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