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Cloud Solution Architect - Factory

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10 hours ago
Remote, Canada +3 moreSenior

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical enablement, operational support, and strategic engagement across Azure application migration projects.
  • Understand customer data estates, business priorities, and IT success measures to deliver AI-powered solutions.
  • Lead technical program management, project intake, milestone sizing, objection handling, and technical scoping.
  • Monitor active engagements, identify risks, resolve blockers, and handle complex or non-standard customer scenarios.
  • Design Azure infrastructure and application migration solutions, technical roadmaps, proofs of concept, and MVPs through production.
  • Build reusable intellectual property and improve Factory offerings using customer and partner feedback.
  • Drive customer consumption and success by identifying opportunities to increase value from Microsoft investments.
  • Influence product improvements, roadmaps, and feature priorities while sharing technical expertise with customers and field teams.
  • Debug engagement issues, provide fixes, and teach customers about GitHub Copilot and the Azure AI platform.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, business, or a related field and 4+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Breadth in foundational security, foundational AI, and architecture design, with deep subject-matter expertise in one or more Azure migration areas.
  • Experience with Java, .NET, JavaScript, Python, or similar programming languages in application development and service integration.
  • Ability to integrate GitHub Copilot and Azure AI with services such as Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, Docker, and API Management.
  • Enterprise-scale experience building Azure Infrastructure and Azure Application solutions for customers from MVP through production deployment.
  • Ability to create and explain 3-tier architecture, system context, and system interaction diagrams.
  • Understanding of Bicep, Terraform, or Azure Resource Manager and secure deployment of infrastructure-as-code templates.
  • Experience or expertise with Azure core technologies, including compute, networking, storage, databases, identity, security, and monitoring services.
  • Awareness of competing AI platforms beyond Azure, including AWS and GCP.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check and Government of Canada Reliability Status screening.

Benefits

  • The role is a global customer-facing individual contributor position within Microsoft’s Cloud Acceleration Factory.
  • The position requires passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • The successful candidate must obtain and maintain a Government of Canada Reliability Status security screening, with Microsoft evaluating eligibility case by case.
  • Applications are accepted continuously until the position is filled, and the posting will remain open for at least five days.

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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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