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Senior Cloud Solution Architect

Microsoft· Cloud Solution Architecture
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Hybrid (Germany), Hybrid (Austria), Hybrid (Switzerland)€102.1k - €176.2kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior technical leader driving AI transformation and partner enablement across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland within Microsoft's Cloud & AI Partner Architects, focusing on Data & AI, solution design, and scalable, enterprise-ready AI architectures.

Responsibilities

  • Drive Frontier AI Transformation: Act as a strategic technical advisor to senior partner stakeholders, helping partners evolve into Frontier Partners by adopting AI-first strategies, agentic AI solutions, and new business models. Connect technology innovation with measurable business outcomes, accelerating partner growth and customer transformation.
  • Accelerate Data & AI Business Growth: Proactively identify and shape opportunities to increase Azure Data & AI consumption, drive adoption of Microsoft Fabric and Foundry, and expand partner-led customer reach. Collaborate across Microsoft sales, engineering, and partner organizations to accelerate pipeline creation, solution adoption, and sustainable business impact at scale.
  • Influence Strategic Technology Decisions: Challenge conventional approaches, guide partners through complex architectural and business decisions, and translate emerging technology trends into actionable transformation strategies. Proactively address technical and business risks, including security, data governance, privacy, responsible AI, and operational resilience.
  • Build Frontier Partner Capabilities: Lead the technical transformation of strategic partners by developing their Data & AI practices, architectural capabilities, and technical readiness. Help partners establish differentiated AI offerings, agentic solutions, and scalable delivery models that enable them to compete and grow in the evolving AI market.
  • Accelerate Solution Innovation & Specialization: Guide partners in designing and delivering secure, scalable, production-ready Data & AI solutions, leveraging Microsoft Foundry, Fabric, Azure AI Services, and modern cloud architectures. Lead architectural design sessions, technical workshops, and strategic customer engagements while accelerating relevant Microsoft Solutions Partner designations and specializations, including Frontier AI.
  • Scale Repeatable Partner Solutions: Enable partners to move beyond individual projects and proofs of concept by developing differentiated IP, reusable architectures, industry solutions, and repeatable offerings. Collaborate with partner and Microsoft go-to-market teams to accelerate commercialization, customer adoption, and scalable revenue opportunities.
  • Lead with Technical Excellence: Serve as a senior technical authority and trusted advisor across Data & AI, combining deep architectural expertise with a broad understanding of cloud-native applications, security, and agentic AI. Influence complex solution architectures, challenge technical assumptions, and guide partners toward scalable, secure, and enterprise-ready implementations.
  • Shape Technical Strategy & Innovation: Leverage market insights, partner feedback, and emerging technology trends to influence technical priorities, solution investments, and partner transformation strategies. Contribute to Microsoft's technical communities by developing reference architectures, accelerators, best practices, and innovative solution patterns that can be scaled across the partner ecosystem.
  • Inspire, Mentor & Scale Expertise: Act as a technical thought leader and mentor, driving knowledge sharing, coaching, and technical readiness across Microsoft and partner teams. Lead cross-functional initiatives, engage with senior technical stakeholders, and represent Microsoft's technology vision through strategic partner engagements, industry events, technical communities, and thought leadership.

Qualifications

  • Extensive Technical Experience: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field and multiple years of experience in cloud technologies, Data & AI solutions, software development, solution architecture, technical consulting, or technical pre-sales or equivalent experience.
  • Senior Technical Leadership: Proven experience in technical consulting, solution architecture, or technical pre-sales, with the ability to lead complex technical engagements, influence senior stakeholders, and translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.
  • Data & AI Expertise: Strong technical knowledge of modern data platforms, cloud-native architectures, AI services, and enterprise AI solution development, including experience designing and implementing scalable, secure, and production-ready solutions.
  • Language Skills: Professional English proficiency and fluency in German, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and business audiences.

Skills

Required:Cloud architectureData & AI platformsStakeholder leadershipGerman language

Benefits

  • See country-specific pay ranges and benefits pages linked in the job description.
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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