Cloud Solution Architecture

Job Description

We are looking for a highly motivated App Innovation Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) with an entrepreneurial spirit to join our Digital Natives Tech Unit in EMEA. This is a unique chance to be at the frontline of technological innovation, working closely with emerging startups and high-growth unicorns to design, build, and maintain Azure applications that make a real impact.

As our technical authority on application innovation and development, you'll enjoy unparalleled access to the world's most disruptive companies, serving as a vital bridge between cutting-edge technology and business success. You'll collaborate with international product groups, and take part in a dynamic ecosystem alongside other Cloud Solution Architects, Customer Engineers, and Customer Success Account Managers.

In this role, you'll find a conducive environment for continuous learning, allowing you to deepen your technical expertise and expand your understanding across various technologies. The pace is fast, the work is stimulating, and the opportunity for impactful decision-making is significant.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:

• Understand the customer's overall applications portfolio, IT and business priorities, and success measures to design robust architectures and solutions (including third-party solutions) using Azure PaaS, DevOps, and Advanced Application coding.
• Assisting customers implementing app modernization strategies and the technical architecture required to implement comprehensive solutions on Azure, leveraging best practices.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of orchestration tools like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), helping customers to manage, scale, and deploy containerized applications seamlessly.
• Architect solutions that efficiently support multitenancy, enabling optimized resource utilization and cost-effectiveness without compromising on isolation and security between tenants.
• Acting as a trusted advisor to our top clients, helping them incorporate Azure app development services into their overarching cloud strategy, and recommending migration paths and architectures that include Azure PaaS services.
• Drive the adoption of serverless computing paradigms to optimize resource utilization, improve scalability, and reduce time-to-market for new features.
• Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects and Microsoft stakeholders to develop complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform, ensuring that all solutions adhere to the "Well-Architected" framework, exhibiting high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment.
• Lead Architectural Design Sessions to build an implementation plan aligning with customer business goals and their technical environment. This will result in consensus on solution design and the next steps toward production.
• Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to guide customers through their modernization roadmap. Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring the technical feasibility of new projects and successful deployments.
• Develop deep relationships with key customer decision-makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company, enabling them to be cloud advocates.
• Be the Voice of the Customer; share insights and best practices, and connect with Engineering teams to eliminate blockers.
• Troubleshoot technical issues to demonstrate the value of implementing Azure technologies.
• Assess the Customers' knowledge of the Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners.
• Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community.
• Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners, and external communities, building and growing developer communities through activities such as workshops.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 7+ 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

o OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 12+ 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

o OR Master's 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 o OR equivalent experience.

• 6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
• 6+ years experience leading technical projects.
• 2+ years experience working with start-ups or Digital Native companies, demonstrating a strong understanding of their unique technological and business needs.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in planning, implementing, and deploying complex software development projects.
• Technical Certification in Cloud with focus on Cloud Native platforms (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.