Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Apps

We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) focusing on Azure Cloud-native and AI Applications. This customer-facing position will use all its hands-on technical experience spanning across design, build/code, and operations to remove customer technical obstacles and adoption challenges, leading and orchestrating all technical resources necessary for the evolution and completion of the project with the best possible success for the customer. For strategic projects, this position will be also part of co-development squad with customer to develop innovative and high-quality solutions, aiming to fast start and derisk the beginning of the project, that will be catched by partners or customer to continue the development to the end. The ideal candidate will have experience in software development, DevOps practices, and a strong ability to work in a team.

Understanding Customer Technical Environment  Collect and analyze customer insights to align architectural and digital transformation solutions with business objectives. Represent customer needs, driving improvements and prioritizing requirements with internal teams.    Architecture Design and Deployment  Lead technical architecture projects by aligning business and technical requirements, applying broad expertise to overcome constraints and deliver scalable, secure, and reliable solutions. Demonstrate solution value through collaborative design sessions with customers, driving tangible results and identifying growth opportunities.  Lead technical architecture projects, taking ownership of the recommended architecture and actively working throughout all project phases up to production to ensure its success. Provide strategic guidance in design, development, and deployment, supporting customers and partners, identifying, escalating, and resolving technical blockers to accelerate solution implementation, and making necessary adjustments to guarantee architectural success. Route non-technical issues to the appropriate teams.  Adapts methodology and applies governance to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks (e.g. Well-Architected Framework, Enterprise Scale Landing Zone, Cloud Adoption Framework). Defines customer/partner conditions of success, adheres to quality assurance, and calculates risks while designing and/or delivering solutions.    Co- development of strategic solutions with customers  Collaborate with clients and partners to define project scopes and technical requirements.  Develop and implement software solutions using agile methodologies (SCRUM/Agile).  Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub.  Implement security practices and infrastructure as code (IaC).  Participate in ideation and design thinking sessions to define approaches and solutions for business problems.  Conduct architecture design sessions to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable solutions.  Apply observability practices, unit tests, load tests, integration tests, design patterns, and code best practices.

Required/Minimum Qualifications  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, 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 Business level fluency in English and Portuguese languages Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, technology management   Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e. Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub, Visual Studio) and proven experience in software development, with solid foundation in Software Engineering Fundamentals, being able to design and