Cloud Solution Architect

MCAPS-Core 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. The Customer & Commercial Success (CCS) organization, an organization within MCAPS-Core, is the connected engine that turns Microsoft’s commercial strategy into execution at scale — making it simpler and faster for the field to win for every customer, in every segment, region, and role. The organization brings together planning, landing, execution excellence, services portfolio and delivery, and field activation across ATU, STU, and CSU to accelerate customer value, drive growth, and strengthen the end-to-end experience across every customer moment. With over 45,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.    We are looking to hire a hands-on Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to join our diverse, talented, high performance, and innovative team, focused on driving rapid cloud solutions on Azure via the Cloud Accelerate Factory. The Cloud Accelerate Factory is best suited for individuals that are highly technical, solution focused and have a passion for Project Management. The Cloud Accelerate Factory provides opportunity to drive feedback into Microsoft’s core product teams to help improve our platform.   CSAs are senior individual contributors who operate globally and engage directly with customers. It is a hands-on technical and governance role spanning across design, build, and production. Candidates are expected to comfortably switch from a whiteboard to the keyboard. This is a truly exciting role that will feature unique and challenging technical problems to solve and to help our customers succeed. 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 •    Lead Customer Transformation & Business Growth: Drive complex customer engagements by delivering strategically aligned solutions, accelerating adoption, optimizing architectures for security, resilience, AI, cost, and performance, and identifying opportunities to expand Microsoft services, consumption, and business value. •    Act as a Trusted Executive Advisor: Build relationships with technical and business decision-makers up to the C-suite, translate customer challenges into business-focused solutions, influence adoption strategies, and serve as the voice of the customer to help shape Microsoft products and priorities. •    Drive Partner & Ecosystem Success: Lead collaboration with partners and sales teams to uncover strategic opportunities, support complex pre-sales engagements, develop scalable partner offerings, and influence partner investments and adoption of Microsoft technologies. •    Provide Organizational & Technical Leadership: Mentor and develop others, lead virtual teams, contribute to