Digital Cloud Solution Architecture - Data & AI

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Responsibilities

This Cloud Solution Architect role is a deep technical role, working with our customers to build technical capability, create innovative solutions to their business challenges and uncover new workloads that could be migrated to Azure. 

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

This role will own the Azure technical customer engagement including architectural design sessions, specific implementation projects and Proofs of Concepts as well as collaborating with other parts of Microsoft and our partners, always with the Customers’ needs at the heart of everything you do.  

Qualifications

Professional 

• Professional Experience. experience of success in complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications  

• Relationship Building. Proven record of accomplishment of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives in large or highly strategic accounts. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solutions/projects.  

• Collaboration and Communication. Acknowledged driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. The ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects. Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management, Database administrators and Data Scientist) 

• Problem Solver. The ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies. 

• Collaborative. Orchestrate and influence virtual teams to pursue sales opportunities and lead v-teams through influence.  

Technical 

• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migration, and technology management 

• Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments (including migration of on-premises workloads to the cloud) 

Deep expertise in one or more of the following: 

• 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 Cloud solutions required: 

• Azure Cognitive Services 

• Azure Cognitive Search 

• Azure OpenAI 

• SQL including OSS (postgress, MySQL etc), Azure SQL 

• NoSQL Databases including OSS (Maria, Mongo etc), Cosmos DB 

• Big Data including Azure Synapse, Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift 

• Advanced Analytics including Azure Databricks, visualization tools as PowerBI, Fabrics and Tableau 

• Data Governance 

• Data Science 

• Machine Learning including Azure ML, ML Server 

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

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

• Competitive Landscape: Knowledge of cloud development platforms preferred. 

• Partners: Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs preferred Education. 

• Education and Certifications 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering Data Science/ML/AI, or related field experience. 

• Certification in one or more of the following technologies preferred: Azure, Containers, Databases, Big Data, Data Science/ML/AI 
• Business fluency in German and English 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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