Microsoft

Cloud Solution Architect - Data & AI

Microsoft • $96K — $177K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years in cloud/infrastructure technologies or IT consulting/support.
  • Experience in customer-facing roles for at least 4 years.
  • Technical project experience for minimum 4 years.
  • Experience leading data platform engagements with Microsoft technologies.
  • Knowledge of enterprise architecture fundamentals like security and governance.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with customer leaders to understand their data and AI needs.
  • Lead design of Data and AI platform roadmaps using Azure services.
  • Drive technical engagements from proof of concept to deployment.
  • Modernize data platforms across various workloads.
  • Establish data governance aligned with organizational requirements.
  • Improve resilience and sustainability of critical data workloads.
  • Collaborate with teams to overcome technical challenges and enhance customer outcomes.

Benefits

  • Access to ongoing professional development opportunities.
  • Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.
  • Engagement with innovative technology and industry-leading practices.
  • Opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams worldwide.
  • Exposure to diverse projects and technology solutions.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

  • Engage customer business and technology leaders to understand their data estates, AI priorities, governance needs, success measures, and business outcomes; translate these requirements into secure, scalable, and AI-ready Cloud & AI Data solutions.


  • Lead architecture design and create Data and AI platform roadmaps spanning analytics, data engineering, databases, governance, and AI-enabled scenarios. Guide customers in making architectural choices across Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Azure databases, and related Azure services.


  • Drive technical engagements from architecture and proof of concept through pilot, production deployment, and scaled adoption. Help customers establish reusable patterns rather than treating each implementation as an isolated solution.


  • Lead data platform modernization and migration across relational, non-relational, analytical, and data-engineering workloads, including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL, and Cosmos DB.


  • Help customers establish effective data governance practices, including data ownership, security, quality, discoverability, metadata management, compliance, and lifecycle management, aligned to their organizational and regulatory requirements.


  • Improve the health and sustainability of mission-critical data workloads by addressing resiliency, security, sovereignty, performance, capacity management, operational readiness, and cost optimization.


  • Partner with CSAMs, account teams, specialists, engineering teams, and delivery resources to remove technical blockers, align customer success plans with feasible delivery outcomes, contribute reusable IP, and share customer and field feedback with product teams.


Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field

o 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

o OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field

o 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

o OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field

o AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting

o 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.
• Experience leading production data platform engagements in two or more of the following areas: Microsoft Fabric and analytics; Azure Databricks and data engineering; Azure SQL and open-source databases; data governance; or production data foundations for AI solutions.
• Experience with enterprise architecture considerations such as security, governance, data quality, metadata management, resiliency, performance optimization, capacity planning, operational readiness, and cost management. Relevant Cloud, Data, Analytics, Database, AI, or Security certifications are preferred.

Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $96,000 - CAD $177,600 per year.

Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 96,000 $ CAD à 177,600 $ CAD par année.

Pour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu'à ce que le poste soit pourvu.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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