Cloud Solution Architect

With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers’ expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft’s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.

The Global Customer Success (GCS) organization, an organization within CE&S, is leading the effort to enable customer success on the Microsoft Cloud by harnessing leading, AI-powered capabilities and human expertise to deliver innovation solutions that accelerate business value, drive operational excellence and nurture long term loyalty.

The primary purpose of the Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) role is to drive customer success by enabling them to achieve their business objectives through the adoption and effective use of Microsoft cloud technologies. The CSA acts as a trusted advisor, leveraging deep technical expertise and industry knowledge to design, implement, and optimize cloud solutions that align with the customer's strategic goals. This role involves collaborating closely with customers to understand their needs, providing guidance on best practices, and ensuring the successful deployment and integration of cloud services. The CSA is also responsible for staying current with the latest advancements in cloud technology and continuously enhancing their skills to deliver innovative solutions that drive customer value.

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**:

- You will develop relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates as well as be the Voice of the Customer and share insights and best practices and connect with Engineering teams to remove blockers.
- You will provide feedback & insights from customers/partners back to the relevant MS teams including Product Groups, to enable continuous improvement.
- You will deliver excellence as you own your committed pipeline and ensure delivery in alignment with customer expectations
- You will develop opportunities to drive Customer Success business results by working with technical decision makers to ensure they understand Microsoft's Azure Infrastructure services required to operate AI solutions at scale, inclusive of value proposition and how they get value from their investment in the Microsoft technology.
- You will run Architectural Design Sessions to build plan for implementing solution -governing design in line with customer business goals and their technical environment as you use CAF Landing Zones to rapidly enable migrations, help build customer resiliency in priority areas including Networking, Zonal/multi-region and Security and prepare our customers for AI Innovation.
- You will demonstrate a Self-Learner mindset through continuous alignment of individual skilling to team/area demands and Customer Success goals as you accelerate customer outcomes and engage in relevant communities to share expertise, contribute to IP creation, prioritize IP re-sure and learn from others to help accelerate your customers transformation journey.

**Qualifications**:
Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 5+ 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

Preferred Qualifications:

- 5+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
- 5+ years experience working on technical projects
- Excellent written, oral and presentation skills.
- Awareness of corporate and enterprise environments and their business requirements.
- Face-to-face and remote (via Video or Voice) customer engagement skills
- Troubleshooting knowledge & skills