Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) – Cloud & AI Data (French, Italian or Spanish Speaker)
Microsoft is seeking 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.
As part of the Cloud + AI Data team, you’ll leverage existing Repeatable IP and execution engines with accountability to drive delivery excellence, accelerate adoption and ensure a successful deployment for the customer 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.
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 optimisation 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.
Required Qualifications
- 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
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies and related roles.
- OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies and related roles.
- 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) and 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 modernising 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, and 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.
Employment Type
Full‑time
Seniority Level
Not Applicable
Job Function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Software Development
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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