Microsoft

Cloud Solution Architect - AI Apps

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1 day ago
Calgary, Canada or Vancouver, CanadaMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Develop an understanding of customer business and IT objectives across platform engineering, cloud application development, and generative and agentic AI adoption.
  • Advocate for customers by channeling feedback to engineering teams and accelerating delivery through architecture reviews, proofs of concept, MVPs, and environment setup.
  • Deliver or recommend technical discussions, workshops, and cloud-readiness activities while ensuring solutions meet performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and reliability standards.
  • Drive cloud and support consumption by improving customer outcomes, maximizing Microsoft investments, and resolving technical blockers through expertise and escalation processes.
  • Build customer and partner relationships, identify and resolve technical challenges, and uncover opportunities based on customer needs.
  • Lead technical architecture discussions and oversee pilots and implementation projects across design, build, and operations.
  • Share technical insights through internal communities, conferences, seminars, meetups, webcasts, blogs, and hackathons.
  • Articulate the business value, plans, and risks of proposed solutions to technical and business stakeholders.
  • Create proofs of concept and minimum viable products that lead to production deployments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field plus 4+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years of experience in cloud or infrastructure technologies, IT consulting or support, systems administration, network operations, software development or support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, or consulting.
  • Preferred: 4+ years of customer-facing experience and 4+ years working on technical projects.
  • Enterprise-scale experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructure, architecture design, migrations, and technology management.
  • Proficiency in one or more of .NET, Java, JavaScript/Node.js, or Python and related frameworks.
  • Technical expertise in cloud security, infrastructure, AI, application platforms, scalable architectures, DevOps toolchains, databases, analytics, and data governance.
  • Technical cloud certification, such as Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, or security certification, is preferred.

Benefits

  • Typical base pay range is CAD $96,000–CAD $177,600 per year across Canada.
  • The position is open for a minimum of five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureC#Google CloudJavaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetes.NETNode.jsOpenShiftPHPPythonSpinnaker

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Microsoft

About Microsoft

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Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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