Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Data & Infra
Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled Azure Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to join our Customer Success Unit. This pivotal role is customer-facing and encompasses a broad range of responsibilities, including the design, build, and support of Azure applications, with a key emphasis on leveraging AI and cloud to generate new business value, increase efficiency, save cost, and inspire productive and meaningful work.
This fast-paced and dynamic position requires deep technical knowledge, the ability to adapt swiftly, and the capability to make independent decisions in ambiguous circumstances. There are extensive opportunities for on-the-job learning, allowing you to deepen your technical expertise and broaden your knowledge across various technologies.
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' business processes, business priorities and technology landscape to design solutions that generate business value.
- Develop deep relationships with customer business and technology stakeholders and drive impactful digital transformation with them.
- Lead solution architecture, share expertise and accelerate customer outcomes.
- Collaborate with technology professionals to develop data and cloud solutions. Drive continuous improvement in performance, security, scalability, maintainability, reusability, and reliability.
- Be the Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with internal teams (e.g. product engineering) to improve products and services.
- Commit to continuous learning to keep technical skills and knowledge up to date with market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND/OR Extensive experience in cloud technologies, application development, infrastructure technical solutioning, architecture design, technical sales, and/or consulting
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Strong analytical ability to solve business and technical problems.
- Collaborative skills to share perspectives, drive alignments and orchestrate executions.
- Strong knowledge and experience in at least four of the following:
- Cloud native application development using Python, Java, C++, JavaScript.
- Cloud infrastructure such as Landing Zone, security, networking.
- Application runtime technologies such as app service PaaS, containers, Kubernetes, serverless, cloud native.
- Generative AI such as GPT.
- Data science and MLOps.
- Massively parallel processing system and database, Spark, Databricks.
- Data analytics platform and data warehouse (Azure Synapse, Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.) and analytical data modeling.
- NoSQL platforms (MongoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, etc.) and NoSQL data modeling.
- RDBMS (Azure SQL, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB) and RDBMS data modeling.
- DevOps technologies such as Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps.
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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Tags: Architecture Azure BigQuery Computer Science Consulting Cosmos DB Data Analytics Databricks Data warehouse DevOps Engineering Generative AI Git GitHub GPT Java JavaScript Kubernetes MariaDB MLOps MongoDB MySQL NoSQL Oracle PostgreSQL Python RDBMS Security Snowflake Spark SQL
Perks/benefits: Career development Medical leave
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