Cloud Solution Architect Data & Analytics

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. 

 

We are looking for a highly motivated Cloud Solution Architect (CSA), specializing in Data, Analytics & AI, who is passionate about driving our customers’ transformation on Microsoft Azure. This is a customer-facing role, owning the technical relationship between the customer and Microsoft, helping customers to leverage their Microsoft investments through architecture, and operational health engagements.

 

As a CSA, you'll enjoy unparalleled access to enterprise companies, serving as a vital bridge between cutting-edge technology and business success. This opportunity will allow you to work on a variety of innovative projects by guiding customers through their data platform modernization journey to Azure, capture analytics market share with Azure Fabric & Azure Databricks and support customers on the adoption of generative AI and build innovative, safe, and performant AI-based solutions.

 

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

 

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

• You will guide customers through their data platform modernization journey to Azure, highlighting the opportunity to innovate and get AI-ready.
• Capturing Analytics market share with Azure Fabric & Azure Databricks based on customer use cases.
• Support customers on the adoption of generative AI and build innovative, safe and performant AI-based solutions on top of a solid foundation of data and infrastructure.
• You will understand customers’ overall data estate Business and IT priorities and success measures to design Data & Analytics solutions that drive business value and drive positive Customer Satisfaction & become a trusted advisor.
• You will ensure that solution exhibits high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, repeatability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment and provide feedback and insights from customers/partners.
• You will develop opportunities to drive Customer Success business results & help Customers get value from their Microsoft investments and identify resolutions to Customer blockers by leveraging SA subject matter expertise. Deliver according to MS best practices & using repeatable Intellectual Property (IP).
• You will apply technical knowledge to architect and design solutions that meet business and IT needs, create Data & Analytics roadmaps, drive Proof of Concepts (POC) and Minimal Viable Product (MVP), and ensure long term technical viability of new deployments, infusing key AI technologies where
• You will be the Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers and drive product improvements.
• You will maintain technical skills and knowledge, keep up to date with market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the AI technical community while educating customers on Azure platform.
• You will accelerate customer outcomes - Share expertise, contribute to IP creation & re-use to accelerate customer outcomes and obtain relevant accreditations and certifications.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications (RQs) 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND solid experience in Data & Analytics & AI 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
• As this role requires collaboration with local customers in Hungary, fluency in H