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Come build community, explore your passions, and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity lets you bring your aspirations, talent, and excitement for the journey ahead. Are you insatiably curious, passionate about cloud architecture and AI, and ready to solve complex challenges in a dynamic environment? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Cloud Solution Architect for commercial customers at Microsoft. Here, you’ll be at the forefront of designing and delivering cutting-edge solutions that leverage the latest Microsoft technologies to drive meaningful impact. Join us and be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning. Microsoft is transforming the developer and customer experience for AI and cloud applications across the solution lifecycle. With Azure and AI Foundry, we’re leading the way in agentic AI and cloud-native development, where intelligent solutions streamline business outcomes. As a Cloud Solution Architect, you’ll empower customers to modernize, innovate, and become truly cloud-native. Why Join Us? • Accelerate your career growth and develop deep business and technical acumen. • Hone your skills in solution design, deployment, and cloud architecture. • Enjoy flexible work opportunities and a culture that values respect, integrity, and accountability. • Be part of Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft’s values of respect, integrity, and accountability create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Responsibilities What You’ll Do • Serve as a trusted technical advisor, guiding enterprise customers through secure, scalable solution architecture and design. • Collaborate closely with engineering leaders, platform teams, and business stakeholders to accelerate adoption of Azure, AI, and Responsible AI. • Lead hands-on engagements such as architecture design sessions, proof of concepts, and technical workshops. • Influence technical decisions, drive best practices, and help customers realize the full value of Microsoft’s cloud and AI platforms. Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications Required Qualifications (RQs) • Proven technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND few years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND a couple years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience Preferred Qualifications (PQs) • Experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management • Exposure to full stack App architecture design / modernization and cloud native dev (e.g., APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven, Python, Java, .NET) • Experience in AI & ML models (e.g., Agentic AI framework, AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, Responsible AI, fine-tuning/inferencing, etc.) • Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes. • Experience on Agentic framework, AI Management & Security (e.g., Gen AI Ops, Sentinel, Responsible AI, orchestrator, monitoring) • Skilled with 1 or more frameworks, tools, languages (e.g., GitHub, Copilot Studio, VS Code, Jupyter, PyCharm, Node.js, Python, Java, C#, C++, AI Assisted Dev Tools) Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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