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Senior Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) - Cloud & AI Data

Teknik, data och digitalt · IT-infrastruktur och säkerhet · Molnteknik · Datavetenskap · Mjukvaruutveckling

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We are seeking a Senior Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) specializing in Cloud & AI Data to design and implement data platforms, analytics, and database solutions on Microsoft Azure, enabling AI and agent scenarios. This customer-facing role involves leading technical engagements from architecture design to production deployments, focusing on building secure, governed, and AI-ready data estates. The position is located in Huntsville, AL and requires an Active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance.

Ansvarsområden

  • Design and deliver data platform, analytics, and database solutions on Microsoft Azure for AI and agent scenarios.
  • Lead technical engagements including architecture design, proof of concepts, and production deployments.
  • Utilize repeatable IP, Factory, Unified VAS, and data acceleration programs to drive customers from data foundation to production-grade outcomes.
  • Grow data platform adoption, improve workload health, resiliency, security, and capacity.
  • Unlock value from Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Purview, Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL, Cosmos DB, Microsoft IQ, and related AI capabilities.
  • Operate according to required operational excellence and proven practice standards throughout all sales stages/activities/tools of record.
  • Collaborate across Microsoft and customer/partner teams through on-strategy delivery to achieve customer/partner objectives and increase customer/partner satisfaction.
  • Proactively manage business and technical risks, adapts methodology and applies governance principles to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks.
  • Deliver solutions in line with company methodologies, ensuring proven practices and patterns are followed to prepare customers for operational readiness.
  • Proactively identifies new opportunities for Consumption, Usage & Unified expansion based on business value to customer/partner.
  • Actively listens to and respectfully challenges customers/partners, building trust to then advocate for alternative architectures/solutions/approaches.
  • Identifies, and evaluates industry trends and gathers customer/partner insights.
  • Proactively captures opportunities in appropriate systems, processes, and tools.
  • Proactively identifies, escalates, and mitigates blockers using appropriate tools and processes to accelerate solution deployment, value realization and usage/consumption.
  • Applies business, technical, industry, and/or enterprise knowledge to architecture or support projects.
  • Acts as the voice of the customer/partner, sharing ideas, feedback, insights, success stories and strategic/technical input with Engineering teams, Product Offerings teams and internal communities.
  • Identifies patterns of feedback across customers/partners/territories/industries and leverages them to develop strategic and actionable insights.
  • Presents business cases to program managers to influence product roadmaps, decision making, bug fix prioritization, and own and drive initiatives as appropriate.
  • Identifies and/or translates customer/partner problems into industry solutions aligned with Microsoft product and platform strategy.
  • Builds relationships with technical decision makers (TDMs), and helps build the bridge between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs).
  • Independently interacts as needed with customers/partners' Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and other C-level (CXO) roles.
  • Drives self and guides other team members to focus on customer/partner experience through efficient delivery.
  • Defines customer/partner conditions of success by leveraging an understanding of customer goals.
  • Anticipates and addresses customer/partner dissatisfaction and unmet needs.
  • Identifies and prioritizes several opportunities that align with revenue goals, and orchestrates growth of solution utilization pipeline with partners.
  • Provides assistance with partner and sales teams to bring clarity to specific opportunities through proof of concept and technical pre-sales support.
  • Understands solution area-specific market opportunities and collaborates with Global Partner Solutions (GPS) business stakeholders.
  • Proactively guides and supports partners in developing repeatable offerings, practices, products, and solutions.
  • Advises the partner throughout initial strategic customer implementations.
  • Leverages market insights and demand signals to assist leadership in identifying relevant areas in which to drive up-skilling and/or accreditations based on demand.
  • Role models technical readiness, both depth-aligned to solution area priorities and breadth-aligned to Customer Success Unit (CSU)/corporate initiatives.
  • Acts as a mentor, leading readiness and upskilling activities in the team/organization.
  • Contributes to leading virtual teams (v-teams) around technologies and customer/partner challenges.
  • Shares ideas, insights, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft.
  • Demonstrates strong industry knowledge and increases recognition for Microsoft solutions by contributing to and sometimes leading presentations and engagements with external and internal audiences.
  • Contributes to intellectual property (IP) and identifies patterns where no IP exists to help build scalable and repeatable models.
  • Participates in external technical and non-technical community events that elevate the Microsoft brand and shares learnings across internal teams.
  • Proactively identifies gaps through delivery, communicates those gaps to relevant team members and internal/external stakeholders.
  • Connects gaps and patterns across business and technology areas that drive changes and improvements to products, intellectual property (IP), technologies, and/or processes/practices that enable solutions to scale across customers.
  • Contributes to the development and modification of Microsoft's structured frameworks and methodologies.
  • Provides thought leadership and innovation to customers/partners and internal communities at the local level.

Krav

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ 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 equivalent experience.
  • Active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
  • Pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.

Önskade kvalifikationer

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
  • 4+ years experience working on technical projects.
  • Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).

Förmåner

  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Färdigheter

AzureMicrosoft FabricAzure DatabricksMicrosoft PurviewAzure SQLAzure Database for PostgreSQLAzure Database for MySQLCosmos DBMicrosoft IQAI
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för 3 veckor sedan

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Arbetsform

Hybrid

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106 400–203 600 US$ / år

Erfarenhetsnivå

Senior

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Huntsville, United States

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