Chief Architect - Cloud & AI at Microsoft

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and executives (e.g., CTO, CIO) at large enterprise customers, helping define and execute transformative Cloud & AI strategies
• Providing technical vision and leadership for complex, high-impact projects.Proactively using expert knowledge in customer conversations to influence solutions and drive consumption
• Lead and accelerate Azure consumption plans, ensuring alignment to customer successInspire customer innovation by helping them adopt AI at scale, guiding them through their transformation journey with confidence and clarity
• Anticipate and resolve critical business and technical challenges to accelerate value realisation.Lead architectural design workshops and oversee the implementation and quality assurance of secure, scalable, and resilient end-to-end solutions, leveraging Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), Well-Architected Framework (WAF), and best practices to optimize mission-critical workloads.
• Collaborate with account teams and leadership to support account planning, deal creation, and execution of consumption and customer success plans.
• Share responsibility for Azure and Unified Health within accounts, supporting expansion, renewal, and next-best workload motions
• Demonstrate mastery across AI applications, infrastructure, and data, enabling production-scale AI use cases.
• Stay ahead of the curve by maintaining advanced certifications and deep technical expertise across priority workloads such as Azure AI Foundry, GitHub, App Services, Databricks, Fabric, and more
• Demonstrate a growth mindset by continuously developing your skills, aligning with business priorities, and contributing to a culture of learning and excellence.
• Mentor and upskill the technical community fostering a culture of learning and innovation. This includes, acting as a spokesperson and thought leader both internally and externally.

Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 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.
• Additional or preferred qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.
• Experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
• Experience leading technical projects.
• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).

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