We are seeking a highly motivated and technically skilled Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) specializing in Data Platform, Advanced Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence to support strategic customer engagements on Microsoft Azure. This customer-facing role is responsible for driving technical strategy, architecture design, and deployment of data and AI solutions, ensuring long-term customer success and Azure consumption growth.

You will lead technical engagements from pre-sales to post-sales, including workshops, MVP builds, production deployments, and optimization aligned with the Well-Architected Framework. The ideal candidate has a strong background in enterprise architecture, cloud technologies, and customer collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer data estate, IT strategy, and business goals to design scalable and secure Azure-based architectures.
• Architect and implement solutions using cutting-edge Azure technologies such as Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, Azure ML, Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Databricks, Purview, and Power BI.
• Ensure solutions meet performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and reliability standards.
• Drive Azure consumption through accurate and complete Azure Consumption Plans and support Unified/Factory delivery models.
• Lead technical workshops, build MVPs, and guide customers through production deployments.
• Collaborate with internal engineering teams to remove blockers and share customer feedback.
• Stay current with market trends, competitive insights, and Microsoft’s FY26 solution plays (e.g., Vaas Enhanced, DE, EDE).
• Evangelize Azure technologies within customer, partner, and community ecosystems.

Qualifications

Professional Experience:

• 7+ years in technical consulting, architecture, or deployment of distributed systems and cloud solutions.
• Proven ability to build deep technical relationships with senior IT stakeholders and influence decision-making.
• Strong problem-solving skills using cloud technologies.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills across technical and executive audiences.

Technical Expertise:

• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, database migrations, and technology management. required
• Breadth of technical experience and knowledge, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise in two or more of the following Data Platform and Analytics Cloud solutions required:
• AOAI/AI and Cognitive services
• NoSQL Databases including OSS (Cassandra, Mongo, and HBase etc), Cosmos DB
• Big Data platform such as Synapse, Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift, Spark
• Advanced Analytics including Azure Synapse, Databricks, and visualization tools such as PowerBI, Tableau.
• Data Science and Data Engineering including machine learning framework such as PyTorch and scikit-learn.
• SQL Server/Database and OSS database (PostgreSQL, MySQL etc)
• Streaming, IoT, Real-time analytics
• Expertise in data estate workloads like HDInsight, Hadoop, Cloudera, Spark, Python preferred
• The technical aptitude and experience to learn new technologies and understand relevant cloud trend required
• Competitive Landscape: Knowledge of cloud development platforms preferred
• Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs preferred
• Expertise in AI like LLM Preferred
• Japanese fluent

Experiences:

Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or services company such as Amazon, VMware, Google, IBM, Oracle etc is desired

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.