Are you passionate about helping enterprise customers navigate complex technology decisions and turn cloud strategy into tangible business outcomes?As a Cloud Solution Architect, you will work with enterprise customers to understand their business priorities and technical requirements, shaping architecture strategies and solutions across Microsoft Azure technologies. You will operate across workloads rather than focusing on a single solution area, bringing together architecture, technical depth, customer insight, and business understanding to help customers address complex transformation challenges.You will act as a trusted technical advisor, working closely with customer stakeholders and Microsoft teams throughout the solution lifecycle. From early architecture discussions and pre-sales engagements through proofs of concept, implementation, and adoption, you will help customers make informed technology decisions and realize value from their Microsoft investments.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
- Shape enterprise architecture solutions by gathering insights into customer business priorities and technical requirements, translating them into viable architecture strategies and solutions based on Microsoft technologies.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers, building strong relationships with business and technology stakeholders, challenging assumptions when appropriate, and demonstrating the value of Microsoft solutions in addressing complex business and technology needs.
- Lead architecture and technical solution development across customer engagements, applying architectural principles and technical expertise to address requirements, identify dependencies, and resolve technical constraints and blockers.
- Guide customers across the solution lifecycle, supporting pre-sales, post-sales, implementation, and adoption activities while helping customers strengthen their technical capabilities and make informed architecture decisions.
- Lead and contribute to proofs of concept and pilots, working with customers, partners, and internal Microsoft teams to validate architecture choices, demonstrate solution feasibility, and support progression toward production solutions.
- Drive technical quality and manage risk by applying established architecture methodologies, governance, and quality practices across complex customer engagements.
- Represent the customer within Microsoft, sharing customer insights, technical challenges, adoption blockers, and feedback with internal teams while collaborating across Microsoft and partner organizations to deliver a connected customer exper
