Sr. Cloud Solution Architect Cloud & AI

With more than 45000 employees and partners worldwide the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsofts products and services ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution ensuring that we consistently exceed customers expectations in every interaction whether in-product digital or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company including consulting customer success and support across Microsofts portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.

We are looking for a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to help customers bring their AI-powered applications to production scale on this customer-facing role youll lead technical engagements across design build and operations removing blockers and accelerating adoption of Azure AI App Services GitHub and data platforms. As part of the Cloud AI Apps team you will deliver engagements leveraging existing Repeatable IP and execution engines with accountability for delivery excellence consumption growth and successful deployment for the customer. You will ensure production readiness of mission-critical workloads and contribute to reusable IP that scales impact. Youll be certified in priority workloads like Azure AI Foundry AKS Cosmos DB and GitHub and collaborate with customer executives developers and engineers to turn innovation into real-world outcomes.

Engage with customer IT and business leaders to understand their application data and AI priorities and design secure scalable solutions that drive business value and customer satisfaction.
Lead technical engagements across architecture design Proof of Concepts (POCs) and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) to accelerate adoption of Azure AI App Services GitHub and data platforms.
Own the end-to-end technical delivery results ensuring completeness and accuracy of consumption and customer success plans in collaboration with the CSAM.
Drive next best actions and generate incremental pipeline from each engagement aligning with Unified Enterprise Support (ES) priorities.
Deliver repeatable intellectual property (IP) and contribute to centralized IP development to accelerate deployment and achieve targeted outcomes.
Provide delivery oversight and escalation support for key Factory engagements across AI and App Innovation projects.
Lead the health resiliency security and optimization of mission-critical workloads ensuring readiness for production-scale AI use cases.
Act as the Voice of the Customer by sharing insights and feedback with engineering teams to influence product improvements and remove adoption blockers.
Support customer skilling through technical workshops readiness activities and recommendations that ensure solution performance maintainability and reliability.
Maintain deep technical expertise and stay current with Azure AI GitHub and cloud-native development trends while contributing to internal and external technical communities.
Be accredited and certified to deliver with advanced and expert-level proficiency in priority workloads including Azure AI Foundry AKS App Service Cosmos DB Azure SQL PostgreSQL APIM and GitHub.

Demonstrate a growth mindset by continuously aligning your skills to customer needs contributing to knowledge sharing and mentoring others to accelerate customer outcomes.

Hands-on experience with open-source LLMs such as Llama Mistral DeepSeek Qwen and Gemma for building enterprise-grade GenAI solutions.

Design and implementation of RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) architectures using LangChain LlamaIndex vector databases (Milvus Weaviate pgvector) and enterprise knowledge sources.

Building AI agents and agentic workflows using LangGraph CrewAI AutoGen and MCP (Model Context Protocol) with integration into enterprise applications and business processes.

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering Business or related field AND 8 years 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 Masters Degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering Business or related field AND 8 years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies technology solutions practice development architecture and/or consulting
  • OR equivalent experience
• 8 years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g. internal and/or external).
• 8 years experience working on technical projects
• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g. Azure Amazon Web Services Google security certifications)

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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