Cloud Solution Architect - Data & AI

Overview Microsoft Customer & Partner Solutions accelerates customer outcomes and business growth. By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission, we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation - delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable competitive advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market. We’re looking for a Cloud Solution Architect focused on Cloud & AI Data to help enterprise customers build unified, governed, secure, and AI-ready data estates on Microsoft Azure. In this customer-facing role, you will work with business and technology leaders to connect strategic priorities with architecture decisions, delivery roadmaps, and measurable production outcomes. You will lead technical engagements spanning data platform modernization, analytics, databases, governance, and AI-ready data foundations. You will help customers move from early experimentation and proofs of concept to secure, resilient, and production-grade solutions using Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL, Cosmos DB, and related Azure data and AI capabilities. This opportunity will allow you to deepen your technical leadership, strengthen your business and industry acumen, and develop repeatable approaches that help customers accelerate adoption and realize value from their Microsoft investments. This role is flexible in that you can work up to [50% / up to 100% from home / This role is Microsoft onsite only]. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

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
• 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.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, 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, Liberal Arts, 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.
• 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: 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: 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. --- Microsoft est un employeur offrant l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi. Tous les candidats qualifiés seront pris en considération pour l’emploi, sans égard à l’âge, à l’ascendance, à la citoyenneté, à la couleur, aux congés médicaux ou familiaux, à l’identité ou à l’expression de genre, aux renseignements génétiques, à l’état d’immigration, à l’état matrimonial, à l’état de santé, à l’origine nationale, à un éventuel handicap physique ou mental, à l’affiliation politique, au statut de vétéran protégé ou au statut militaire, à la race, à l’ethnie, à la religion, au sexe (y compris la grossesse), à l’orientation sexuelle ou à toute autre caractéristique protégée par les lois, ordonnances et règlements locaux applicables. Si vous avez besoin d’aide avec des accommodements religieux et/ou d’un accommodement raisonnable en raison d’un handicap pendant le processus de candidature, apprenez-en plus sur la [ demande d’accommodement. ](#) Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about [ requesting accommodations. ](#)