**Overview** As a Cloud Solution Architect, you’ll play an instrumental role in helping customers migrate, modernize and secure their infrastructure, applications and data, laying the groundwork for scalable, production\-ready AI solutions. You’ll work with forward\-thinking IT leaders, tackling real\-world challenges and designing resilient architectures using frameworks like CAF and WAF. Your expertise will guide customers through critical milestones, leveraging proven IP and delivery engines to accelerate adoption and unlock value. This is an opportunity to deepen your knowledge across Azure infrastructure, applications, databases, SAP and hybrid environments. You’ll be part of a team that values precision, creativity and impact \- where your decisions influence outcomes and your growth is continuous. Find out more about our culture and values, and the environment you will be working in. **Responsibilities** * + Build trusted relationships with key customer IT decision makers to drive long\-term cloud adoption and serve as the Voice of the Customer—sharing insights and removing blockers through collaboration with Microsoft engineering teams and engage them to understand their business objectives and needs, priorities, and success measures, and design secure, scalable \& innovation solutions based on AI solutions that deliver measurable business value. * Lead architectural design sessions and deliver secure, scalable, and resilient apps solutions aligned to customer business goals using frameworks like CAF, WAF, Proof of Concepts (POCs) and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs). * Own the end\-to\-end technical delivery results, ensuring completeness and accuracy of consumption and customer success plans in collaboration with the CSAM. * Drive migration and modernization initiatives, including committed proof of concept and production milestones, across data, innovation and AI workloads. * Deliver repeatable intellectual property (IP) to achieve targeted outcomes, accelerate Azure Consumed Revenue (ACR), and contribute to centralized IP development initiatives. * Provide delivery oversight and escalation support for key Factory engagements across architecture \& AI workloads. * Identify and resolve technical blockers to accelerate go\-live and ensure delivery excellence across key Factory engagements. * Generate incremental pipeline from each engagement by driving next best actions and aligning with Unified Enterprise Support (ES) priorities. * Maintain deep technical expertise and stay current with market trends, competitive insights, and Microsoft’s evolving architecture and AI capabilities. * Engage in technical communities, share best practices, and contribute to knowledge reuse to accelerate customer transformation and success. * Drive technical excellence by leading the health, resiliency, security, and optimization of mission\-critical data workloads, ensuring readiness for production\-scale AI use cases. * Identify and resolve technical blockers, share customer feedback with engineering teams, and influence product improvements through Voice of the Customer insights. * Be accredited and certified to deliver with advanced and expert\-level proficiency in priority workloads including Azure Functions, AKS, Serverless, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Purview, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Cosmos DB. * Demonstrate a growth mindset by continuously aligning your skills to team and customer needs, contributing to technical communities, and mentoring others to accelerate customer outcomes **Qualifications*** Proven experience designing and delivering secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure * Demonstrated expertise in applying the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well\-Architected Framework (WAF) to customer engagements. * Hands\-on experience leading migration and modernization initiatives across infrastructure, data, SAP (Native and RISE), and AI workloads * Familiarity with Azure services including Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, AKS, App Service, AVS, Windows, Linux, and Defender for Cloud * Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field OR equivalent experience This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process**.**