Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Data

Overview

Microsoft Customer & Partner Solutions accelerates customer outcomes and business growth. By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission, we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation – delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market.

We're looking for a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) focused on Cloud & AI Data to help customers build unified, governed, secure, and AI-ready data estates on Microsoft Azure. In this customer-facing role, you'll work with customers to design and deliver data platform, analytics, and database solutions that enable production-scale AI and agent scenarios. You'll lead technical engagements across architecture design, proof of concepts, and production deployments, using repeatable intellectual property, Factory, Unified VAS, and data acceleration programs to move customers from data foundation to scalable, production-grade outcomes. As part of the Cloud & AI Data team, you'll help customers grow data platform adoption, improve workload health, resiliency, security, and capacity, and unlock value from Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Purview, Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL, Cosmos DB, Microsoft IQ, and related AI capabilities. This opportunity will allow you to deepen your technical expertise across data and AI platforms, grow your customer-facing architecture and advisory skills, and build influence across virtual teams and communities.

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

• Engage customer IT and business leaders to understand data estates, AI priorities, governance needs, success measures, and business outcomes, and design secure, scalable Cloud & AI Data solutions for unified, governed, AI-ready estates. 

• Lead architecture design, create Data & AI platform roadmaps, and drive proof of concepts, pilots, and production milestones across analytics, database, Fabric, Foundry, Microsoft IQ, and agent-enabled scenarios. 

• Own technical delivery for dispatched engagements, partnering with Customer Success Account Managers to ensure Azure consumption and customer success plans are accurate, aligned, and feasible, and provide delivery oversight and escalation support for Factory, Unified, and data acceleration engagements across Data & Analytics workloads. 

• Use and contribute repeatable intellectual property, templates, frameworks, and agents to accelerate deployment, improve consistency, grow Data share, and support Azure consumption outcomes. 

• Lead workload health, resiliency, sovereignty, security, capacity management, and optimization for mission-critical data workloads and production-scale AI and agent use cases. 

• Resolve technical blockers and adoption issues, and share customer and field feedback with product and engineering teams to improve platform readiness and outcomes. 

• Maintain deep expertise in Cloud & AI Data priorities, market trends, and Microsoft's evolving data, AI, and agent capabilities, including advanced proficiency in priority workloads such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Purview, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cosmos DB, and Microsoft IQ, while demonstrating a growth mindset by aligning skills to customer and team priorities, contributing to communities, sharing reusable learnings, and mentoring others. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND several years of experience in cloud, data platform, analytics, database, AI, or infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, data engineering, database administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting;

  • OR equivalent experience. 

• Experience working in a customer-facing role, internal and/or external, and experience working on technical projects. 
• Business fluency in both German and English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND several years of experience in cloud, data platform, analytics, database, AI, or infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting;

  • OR equivalent experience. 

• Technical certification in Cloud, Data, Analytics, Database, AI, or Security technologies, such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Purview, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cosmos DB, or equivalent cloud or data certifications. 

In line with our Flexible Work approach, for roles at Microsoft Germany, we recommend spending at least two days per week in the office or at the customer site.

Cloud Solution Architecture IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Germany is € 64,800.00 - € 108,000.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/germany-corporate-pay.html

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.