Microsoft is looking to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more by adopting industry-leading products and services for their businesses, education or government systems, and is seeking a Digital Cloud Solution Architect - Data & AI to drive customer relationships and cloud consumption.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales
- 3+ years of experience building and deploying Azure Data architectures or competitive platforms.
- 3+ years of experience with cloud solution sales.
- 3+ years of experience on Azure Databases (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL) from migration & modernize and creating new AI apps.
- 3+ years of experience on Azure Analytics (Fabric, Azure Databricks, Purview) and/or competitors (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake) in data warehouse, data lake, big data, analytics, real-time intelligent, and reporting using integrated Data Security & Governance.
- 3+ years of experience on data warehouse & big data migration including on-prem appliance (Teradata, Netezza, Oracle), Hadoop (Cloudera, Hortonworks) and Azure Synapse Gen2.
- Relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms
Responsibilities
- Engage with customers: Partner with IT and business leaders to understand their data estate, business priorities, and success measures, and design secure, scalable Data & AI solutions that deliver measurable business value.
- Lead solution design and roadmaps: Conduct architecture design sessions and develop Data & Analytics roadmaps to guide adoption and ensure long-term technical viability.
- Ensure production readiness and technical excellence: Oversee health, resiliency, security, and optimization of mission-critical data workloads, enabling production-scale AI use cases.
- Resolve technical challenges and influence products: Identify blockers, and provide feedback to Microsoft on customer development needs, customer blockers, or mitigation strategies.
- Drive business impact: Collaborate and orchestrate with other Digital Cloud Solution Architects and the Microsoft ecosystem to provide strategic guidance to expand Azure usage and optimize customer workloads.
- Maintain and demonstrate technical expertise: Hold advanced certifications and deliver with expert-level proficiency across Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Purview, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cosmos DB, and other priority Data & AI workloads.
- Meet targets and manage pipeline: Through close engagement with customers and partners, work to meet or exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual team targets.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
- Travel 0-25%
- 0 days/week in-office - remote
- Full-Time employment
- Industry leading healthcare, educational resources, discounts on products and services, savings and investments, maternity and paternity leave, generous time away, giving programs, opportunities to network and connect
