Senior Cloud Solution Architect

You will become part of a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team of visionary architects, where collaboration fuels continuous growth. Surrounded by peers with diverse technical perspectives, you’ll expand your expertise across multiple dimensions—architectural strategy, engineering depth, and customer engagement.

We prioritize early adoption of emerging technologies, which means you’ll be hands-on with cutting-edge solutions from day one. Working closely with our engineering divisions, you’ll co-create go-to-market strategies and actively shape real-world implementations.

This role challenges you to contextualize technical insights within the broader enterprise landscape, positioning you as a trusted advisor to our most forward-thinking customers.

As a Cloud Solution Architect, you’ll step into a strategic leadership role that blends deep engineering passion with customer-centric innovation. If you’re driven by the opportunity to work on bleeding-edge implementations and eager to translate those insights into tangible customer impact—this is your gateway to shaping the future.

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

**Responsibilities**:

- You will develop relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates as well as be the Voice of the Customer and share insights and best practices and connect with Engineering teams to remove blockers.
- You will provide feedback & insights from customers/partners back to the relevant MS teams including Product Groups, to enable continuous improvement.
- You will deliver excellence as you own your committed pipeline and ensure delivery in alignment with customer expectations
- You will develop opportunities to drive Customer Success business results by working with technical decision makers to ensure they understand Microsoft's Azure Infrastructure services required to operate AI solutions at scale, inclusive of value proposition and how they get value from their investment in the Microsoft technology.
- You will run Architectural Design Sessions to build plan for implementing solution -governing design in line with customer business goals and their technical environment as you use CAF Landing Zones to rapidly enable migrations, help build customer resiliency in priority areas including Networking, Zonal/multi-region and Security and prepare our customers for AI Innovation.
- You will demonstrate a Self-Learner mindset through continuous alignment of individual skilling to team/area demands and Customer Success goals as you accelerate customer outcomes and engage in relevant communities to share expertise, contribute to IP creation, prioritize IP re-sure and learn from others to help accelerate your customers transformation journey.

**Qualifications**:
**Required Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field
- OR equivalent experience
- Several years of extensive, proven 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.