Cloud Solution Architecture Ic3

With over 18,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of Microsoft’s end-to-end customer experience. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers come to us not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, but also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience.

The Global Customer Success (GCS) organization is leading the effort to create the desired customer experience through support offer creation, driving digital transformation across our tools, and delivering operational excellence across CE&S.

We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Data Platform & Advanced Analytics/Artificial Intelligence Cloud Solution Architect to drive high priority customer initiatives on the Microsoft Azure Platform in collaboration with customers and the Microsoft field in Enterprise accounts segment of our business. This is a customer facing role, owning overall technical relationship between customer and Microsoft Data, Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Platform.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

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**:
Understand customers’ overall data estate, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions.

Ensure that solution exhibits high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment.

Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates.

Be a Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers.

Assess the Customers'' knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners.

Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on Microsoft Azure platform.

Maintain technical skills and knowledge, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community while educate customers on Azure platform.

Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners and external communities.

**Qualifications**:
Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, database migrations, and technology management. required

Breadth of technical experience and knowledge, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise in two or more of the following Data Platform and Analytics Cloud solutions required:
AOAI/AI and Cognitive services

NoSQL Databases including OSS (Cassandra, Mongo, and HBase etc), Cosmos DB

Big Data platform such as Synapse, Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift, Spark

Advanced Analytics including Azure Synapse, Databricks, and visualization tools such as PowerBI, Tableau.

Data Science and Data Engineering including machine learning framework such as PyTorch and scikit-learn.

SQL Server/Database and OSS database (PostgreSQL, MySQL etc)

Streaming, IoT, Real-time analytics

Expertise in data estate workloads like HDInsight, Hadoop, Cloudera, Spark, Python preferred

The technical aptitude and experience to learn new technologies and understand relevant cloud trend required

Competitive Landscape: Knowledge of cloud development platforms preferred

Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs preferred