Senior Cloud Solution Architect- Cloud & AI

Microsoft • Atlanta, GA

4d • $106,400 - $203,600

About The Position

Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) Core accelerates customer outcomes and business growth by aligning product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners. Within MCAPS-Core, Cloud + AI Platforms (CAIP) is a strategic business, and Worldwide Technical Success connects product direction, sales strategy, and scalable delivery execution. The team enables the field, develops reusable intellectual property and assets, manages technical escalations and product blockers, influences product direction, and supports high-priority customer engagements.

The Senior Cloud Solution Architect will help industrialize modernization of applications and their associated data to prepare workloads for AI. The role designs and builds high-quality, repeatable intellectual property—often including code—for Microsoft delivery teams and partners, and develops content and skilling to enable adoption of agentic modernization tools. The work includes application modernization, such as moving .NET or Java workloads to Azure containerization and platform services, and/or database migration and modernization across relational and NoSQL platforms. The architect contributes to a developer-centric team using modern tools and environments, and helps develop an agent-native modernization approach that remains under human control.

The position involves customer engagement, identifying reusable patterns, building agentic intellectual property and field skills from those patterns, and providing product teams with insight into what to build as a best-in-class service. The role also champions Microsoft's mission, values, and AI adoption, collaborating with customers, partners, field teams, and Engineering to deliver measurable modernization outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or a related field and at least 4 years of experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, IT consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting; or equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Comfort working in a developer-centric environment with modern developer tools and environments, such as IDEs, CLIs, and source control, and contributing to a code-based intellectual property portfolio.
• Hands-on depth in application modernization and SQL database migration and modernization, as described for the role.
• Microsoft cannot sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the job duties.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field and at least 8 years of experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure technologies; or a master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field and at least 6 years of relevant experience; or equivalent experience.
• Technical certification in cloud platforms, such as Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google, or security certifications.
• Aptitude for adopting new technologies, learning quickly, and staying current with cloud platform trends and capabilities.
• Experience with AI-assisted or agentic developer tooling such as GitHub Copilot, including app-modernization capabilities, and Azure modernization tooling such as Azure Migrate and Azure Database Migration Service.
• Application modernization experience refactoring or replatforming .NET or Java applications to Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, AKS, Azure Functions, or API Management.
• Database migration and modernization experience across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Cassandra, or MongoDB, targeting Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL/MySQL Flexible Server, or Azure Cosmos DB.
• Experience building reusable intellectual property, accelerators, or delivery assets for field teams or partners.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategy to address CAIP App & Data Modernization priorities, modernizing applications and their data together, with a focus on SQL databases.
• Design and build high-quality, repeatable, agent-native intellectual property offerings, often including code, for delivery by Microsoft teams and partners.
• Bring hands-on expertise in application modernization and SQL database migration and modernization.
• Develop content and skilling to enable field Cloud Solution Architects, delivery teams, and partners to adopt agentic modernization tools at scale.
• Design and build automation and solutions that improve delivery efficiency and help advance customers from migration to agentic modernization.
• Build trusted relationships across MCAPS-Core, Engineering, and business leadership to shape cloud and AI modernization strategy, acting as a technical advisor and champion for long-term success.
• Unblock and accelerate customer modernization efforts by architecting solutions and resolving blockers and escalations.
• Deliver new offerings through direct customer engagement before scaling them through internal and partner delivery engines.
• Represent the Voice of the Customer by sharing insights and best practices and partnering with Engineering to remove blockers and influence Microsoft's product roadmap.
• Promote AI adoption by sharing best practices, presenting Microsoft's AI story, and helping customers innovate confidently at scale.
• Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights, and collaborate with and share knowledge across the technical community.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior