Cloud Solution Architect - Data & Analytics (Strategic Accounts)
Microsoft
Cloud Solution Architect - Data & Analytics (Strategic Accounts)
London, United Kingdom
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Overview
Overview
We are looking for a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA), specializing in Data and Analytics, who is passionate about driving our customers’ transformation on Microsoft Azure. This is a customer-facing role working with some of our most strategic UK accounts, owning the technical relationship between the customer and Microsoft, and helping customers to leverage their Microsoft investments through architecture and operational health engagements. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience
- Experience working with at least one of: Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake, PostgreSQL, OR Cosmos DB.
- This role requires Security Clearance. You will either have existing SC clearance or be willing to undergo security vetting and meet the minimum criteria for this process.
Preferred Qualifications and Experience
- Experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
- Experience working on technical projects
- Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
- Experience with data migration projects and/or implementation of data governance frameworks
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- You will understand customers’ overall business and IT priorities, their related data estate and success measures, and design Data & Analytics solutions that drive business value and positive customer satisfaction to become a trusted advisor.
- You will ensure that solutions exhibits high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, repeatability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment, providing feedback and insights from customers/partners back into Microsoft.
- You will develop opportunities to enable customer success and improved business results, helping customers get value from their Microsoft investments and identifying solutions to technical blockers by leveraging your solution architecture expertise.
- You will deliver solutions according to Microsoft best practices & using repeatable intellectual property (IP).
- You will apply your technical knowledge to architect and design solutions that meet business and IT needs, create Data & Analytics roadmaps, drive Proof of Concepts (POCs) and Minimal Viable Products (MVPs), and ensure long term technical viability of new deployments, infusing key AI technologies.
- You will be the voice of your customer(s) back into Microsoft to share insights and best practices, connecting with Engineering teams to remove key blockers and drive product improvements.
- You will maintain and continually develop your technical skills and knowledge, keeping up-to-date with market trends and competitive insights; collaborating and sharing with peers while educating customers on Azure platform.
- You will accelerate customer outcomes - sharing expertise, contributing to IP creation & re-use to accelerate customer outcomes, and obtaining relevant accreditations and certifications.