Responsibilities

The purpose of this role: This Cloud Solution Architect role is a trusted advisor to our customers with a passion for application development, helping our customers develop innovative solutions using Azure application services.
They will work with select customers to lead deep technical architecture discussions, with senior customer executives, enterprise architects, IT management, security and with developers. They’ll work with customer teams to assist the development of innovative solutions, from pilot to production to enhancement and optimisation. They’ll help developers enhance their capabilities and become a valued contributor to developer communities within their customers. Within Microsoft, they will collaborate with product engineering to share feedback into the development of Microsoft products and help develop Azure services that meet customer needs.

This role is perfect for someone who loves being hands on with technology, and has a consulting customer leadership approach.

Qualifications

What skills do you need to have? 

There will be many opportunities for you to learn and grow into this role and Microsoft. However, to be able to best deliver on the purpose of this role, these are the core skills and experiences you should have on day one: 

• Cloud application architectures, application development in the cloud, application migration to the cloud.
• Experience in building deep relationships with lead developers, application architects and senior IT executives in large customers.
• Technical pre-sales support to ensure customers are empowered to make informed decisions around suitable technology components and architectures for their solutions.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure technologies
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure technologies
  • OR equivalent experience