Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Infrastructure

Are you excited about Microsoft Azure? Join our team as a  Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Infrastructure ! We work with customers to help them achieve their business priorities and guide them in their Cloud & AI transformation journey. We also support customers in evaluating their applications and business requirements, recommend solutions that meet their requirements, and demonstrate these solutions to win technical decisions.  We’re looking for a Cloud Solution Architect to help customers migrate, modernize and secure their infrastructure, applications, and data on Microsoft Azure, laying the foundation for scalable, production-ready AI solutions. As part of the Cloud & AI Infrastructure team, you’ll deliver engagements focused on migration, modernization, operational excellence and resilient architecture using frameworks like Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework (WAF). You’ll work closely with customer IT leaders to design and implement scalable solutions, resolve blockers, and accelerate adoption of Azure services through repeatable IP and delivery excellence. With deep expertise across Azure infrastructure, applications, databases, and hybrid environments, you’ll play a key role in helping customers unlock the full value of their Microsoft Azure investments.  Microsoft Customer & Partner Solutions accelerates customer outcomes and business growth. By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission , we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation - delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable competitive advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market. 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.

Build trusted relationships with customer IT and technical decision makers to understand modernization priorities, remove blockers, and serve as the Voice of the Customer with Microsoft engineering and product teams. Lead architecture design sessions for secure, scalable, resilient modernization solutions across applications, databases, and infrastructure, using Microsoft best practices such as CAF, WAF, landing zones, and resiliency guidance. Contribute to end-to-end technical delivery results by partnering with Customer Success Account Managerers and account teams to ensure consumption plans, customer success plans, and committed milestones are technically sound and aligned to customer priorities. Drive modernization and AI Readiness initiatives across app modernization, database modernization, infrastructure, SAP, hybrid, and agents scenarios, including committed proof-of-concept, pilot, and production milestones. Help customers improve workload health, resiliency, sovereignty, security, capacity, and performance so mission-critical environments are ready for production-scale AI and long-term Azure growth. Use agents, repeatable IP, templates, and frameworks in delivery; contribute learnings and improvements that help scale repeatable modernization outcomes across Factory and Unified engagements. Identify and resolve technical blockers, support delivery oversight, and escalate risks across key Factory and Unified modernization engagements to accelerate go-live and improve customer outcomes. Identify next-best workload opportunities from each