Partner Cloud Solution Architect - Data & AI

Job Description

Global Partner Solutions (GPS) team is a sales organization accountable for the commercial partner business at Microsoft, and the mission is to build and sell Microsoft Cloud applications, services and devices with partners, empowering people, and organizations to achieve more.

We are looking for Partner Cloud Solution Architect – Data & AI that will be accountable for delivering customer success by working with Global System Integrators (GSI), and Advisory partners.

This role plays a crucial role in building world-class solutions and practices across Microsoft solution areas, with the GSI partners. By providing deep technical guidance, you will help partners evolve their business solution portfolio using Microsoft AI and Cloud technologies.

In this role, you will guide the development of business solutions, provide deep technical insights, and accelerate the growth of Microsoft Technical priorities across Azure, Copilot and Generative AI. You will work closely with partners to understand their technical requirements and business objectives, and guide them through architectural design sessions, developing proof of concepts, and help them transition from legacy systems to modern cloud environments, ensuring that their solutions are optimized for performance and cost-efficiency. By leveraging your skills in technical leadership, cloud computing, software development, problem solving and systems architecture, you will drive business impact by enabling digital transformation, optimizing performance, and driving innovation through the effective use of cloud technologies.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

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

• Partner Transformation, Strategic Programs and Solution Development: Accelerate partner transformation and growth by leveraging the Microsoft cloud value proposition and increase partner portfolio capabilities with key Microsoft innovations. Aid partners to develop and implement high quality solutions and/or services leveraging Microsoft’s latest technologies
• Technical Leadership: Develop and maintain depth and breadth of technical and professional skills, along with business acumen and industry knowledge. Exhibit a deep level of knowledge in the Data & AI Solution area as well as three products areas within Data & AI (i.e. SQL, NoSQL, Big Data or ML/AI) . Exhibit an intermediate level of knowledge in at least one other designated solution area: Security, Infrastructure, Digital and App Innovation (Developer), Modern Work (Microsoft 365 etc.), and Business Applications (Dynamics, Power Platform etc.) and at least one product area within the solution area(s), including AI. Exhibit experience in all other solution areas as evidenced by training, certification, or direct experience. Participate and contribute to relevant internal and external technical communities.
• Enablement Execution: Lead and/or contribute to the delivery of workshops, bootcamps, and trainings necessary to build partners’ technical skills.
• Technical Engagement: Lead technical engagements, including Briefings, Proof of Concepts, Architectural Design Sessions, and Hackathons.
• Best Practice Sharing: Collaborate with Microsoft’s Engineering teams to generate technical insight and enable best practices sharing.
• Other: Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Proven ability in designing and deploying solutions, particularly in areas of Copilot, Gen AI Copilot and Gen AI

• Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric and Big Data stack to support the development of Lambda and Kappa architecture

• Experience in traditional Machine Learning, being able to explain the ML process, supervised and unsupervised learning, algorithms ‘choice, hyper-parameter tuning (etc.) and MLOps using Azure ML and/or any other tools.

• Compete knowledge across the data & AI stuck is a plus

• Practical knowledge of hybrid cloud architectures for integrating on-premises workloads with Azure resources

• Demonstrable experience working in a customer and partner facing role (e.g., internal and/or external)

• Significant experience leading technical projects

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, OR equivalent experience

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.