Overview
Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) – Cloud & AI Data (French, Italian or Spanish Speaker) We are looking for a Cloud Solution Architect who specializes in data platforms and analytics to help customers build secure, scalable, and AI-ready solutions on Microsoft Azure. In this customer-facing role, you’ll deliver engagements that span architecture design, proof of concepts, and production deployments, ensuring performance, resiliency, and security across mission-critical workloads. You’ll leverage Repeatable IP and execution engines to drive delivery excellence, accelerate adoption, and ensure a successful deployment for services like Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Cosmos DB, and Purview. You’ll collaborate with engineering teams, share best practices, and stay current with evolving trends to help customers unlock the full value of their data and AI investments. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we strive with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. We value respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Responsibilities
Engage with customer IT and business leaders to understand their data estate, priorities, and success measures, and design secure, scalable Data & AI solutions that deliver measurable business value. Lead architecture design sessions, develop Data & Analytics roadmaps, and drive Proof of Concepts (POCs) and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) to accelerate adoption and ensure long-term technical viability. Own the end-to-end technical delivery results, ensuring completeness and accuracy of consumption and customer success plans in collaboration with the CSAM. Deliver repeatable intellectual property (IP) to achieve targeted outcomes, accelerate Azure Consumed Revenue (ACR), and contribute to centralized IP development initiatives. Provide delivery oversight and escalation support for key Factory engagements across Data & Analytics workloads. Drive technical excellence by leading the health, resiliency, security, and optimization of mission-critical data workloads, ensuring readiness for production-scale AI use cases. Identify and resolve technical blockers, share customer feedback with engineering teams, and influence product improvements through Voice of the Customer insights. Maintain deep technical expertise and stay current with market trends, competitive insights, and Microsoft’s evolving data and AI capabilities. Be accredited and certified to deliver with advanced and expert-level proficiency in priority workloads including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Purview, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Cosmos DB. Demonstrate a growth mindset by continuously aligning your skills to team and customer needs, contributing to technical communities, and mentoring others to accelerate customer outcomes. Qualifications
Required Qualifications (RQs) Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field 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 OR equivalent experience Preferred Qualifications (PQs) Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field 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 OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting 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 Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications) Required Technical Qualifications 5+ years of experience in cloud solution architecture with a focus on data platforms. Hands-on expertise with: Azure SQL (single database, managed instance, SQL Server on VM) Azure Synapse Analytics Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Azure Cosmos DB Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL Proven success in migrating and modernizing data platforms to Azure. Strong understanding of: ETL/ELT pipeline design using Azure Data Factory Data ingestion frameworks (Event Hubs, Stream Analytics) Data governance with Microsoft Purview Deep knowledge of performance tuning, high availability, and backup strategies. Microsoft Fabric Expertise Proficiency in Lakehouse, Warehouse, and Real-Time Intelligence workloads. Experience with OneLake integration, Fabric Notebooks, and KQL database connectivity. Familiarity with Fabric certifications (Data Engineer Associate, Analytics Engineer Associate). Azure Databricks Expertise Advanced skills in Azure Databricks for data engineering and machine learning. Experience with Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and MLflow. Ability to integrate Databricks with Microsoft Fabric for unified analytics. Knowledge of Databricks Platform Architect Accreditation. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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