Overview Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) – Cloud & AI Data (French, Italian or Spanish Speaker). This role focuses on designing secure, scalable Data & AI solutions on Microsoft Azure, delivering architecture design, POCs, and production deployments for data platforms and analytics within the Cloud + AI Data team.
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 POCs and MVPs to accelerate adoption and ensure long-term technical viability.
Own 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 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, IT consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
OR equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications (PQs) Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, IT consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
OR Masters 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 (internal and/or external).
4+ years experience working on technical projects
Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, AWS, 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.
Seniorities and Employment Seniority level: Not Applicable
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
Industries: Software Development
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