Why This Role

At Microsoft, you’ll work at the forefront of cloud and AI innovation, helping customers turn cutting edge technology into real, production ready solutions. You’ll have access to worldclass platforms, deep technical communities, and the opportunity to work on meaningful, largescale customer challenges across industries.

You’ll join a group of high calibre, genuinely collaborative architects who care deeply about doing the right thing for customers. This is a team that:

• Shares knowledge freely and lifts each other up
• Balances technical depth with practical delivery
• Values ownership, trust, and strong engineering fundamentals
• Encourages experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement
• You won’t be expected to “figure it out alone.” You’ll be surrounded by people who are smart, supportive, and passionate about building great AI solutions, while still having the autonomy to shape how you work and where you focus.

If you’re excited about responsible AI, modern application architectures, and making a real impact with customers, this is a role where you can do some of the best work of your career.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Cloud Solution Architect (AI Specialist) to help customers design, build, and operationalize AI powered solutions on Azure.
You’ll work directly with enterprise customers as a trusted technical advisor, guiding them from early AI experimentation through secure, scalable, production ready AI solutions.

This role blends deep technical expertise, hands on architecture, and customer engagement, with a strong focus on Agentic AI / autonomous agents, and modern application architectures.

• Partner with customers to architect and deliver AI enabled solutions on Azure, from design through deployment and operational readiness.
• Translate business goals and technical requirements into secure, scalable AI and application architectures.
• Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews, and solution deep dives with customer and account teams.
• Help customers move from POCs and pilots into production, with a strong focus on reliability, security, cost, and responsible AI.
• Collaborate across engineering, security, and delivery teams to drive adoption, usage, and measurable business outcomes.

Required Experience

• 4+ years experience in cloud, software engineering, solution architecture, or technical consulting roles.
• Working knowledge of Azure application, data, and AI services, and identity and security fundamentals.
• Experience using AI assisted developer tools such as GitHub Copilot to improve developer productivity and code quality.
• Experience translating customer requirements into technical designs, validating assumptions, and delivering solutions aligned to best practices.
• Handson experience improving delivery quality through infrastructure a scode, CI/CD optimisation, test automation, or pipeline modernisation.
• Experience working directly with customers or internal stakeholders in a technical advisory capacity, including architecture discussions and solution reviews.
• Ability to communicate clearly with engineering teams, architects, and nontechnical stakeholders, adapting depth and language to the audience.
• Demonstrated independence, ownership, and rapid rampup in new technical or customer environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Experience

• 6+ years experience delivering complex, customer facing technical solutions.
• Experience delivering production grade AI or modern application workloads.
• Strong understanding of AI models, agents, and orchestration patterns, across Microsoft and partner ecosystems.
• Experience creating, integrating with, or operating agentic orchestration and/or MCP (Model Context Protocol) Servers.
• Experience with enterprise or hybrid cloud architectures, including migrations, modernization, or platform governance.
• Proficiency in .NET, Java, JavaScript/Node.js, or Python, applied in production systems.
• Experience with PaaS and Kubernetes (e.g. AKS) and CaaS platforms (e.g. ACA) and FaaS (e.g. Azure Functions).
• Experience influencing senior level technical or business stakeholders and guiding architectural decisions.
• Exposure to government or regulated enterprise environments, with awareness of security, privacy, and compliance considerations.
• Cloud, AI, or security certifications (Azure or equivalent).

What Makes You Successful

• You’re comfortable moving between deep technical detail and executive level conversation.
• You take ownership and have a strong bias for action and delivery.
• You care about real customer outcomes, not just demos or proofs of concept.
• You bring a pragmatic, “get it done” mindset while maintaining strong engineering and security standards.
• You’re excited about helping customers adopt AI responsibly and at scale.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.