Cloud Solution Architect

2 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Microsoft Full time

We're expanding our Cloud Solution Architecture team across Middle East & Africa. The mission of the Cloud Solution Architecture role is to empower customers to achieve more by designing and delivering innovative, scalable cloud solutions that drive business transformation. Join us in shaping the future with Microsoft’s Data Platform - where limitless scale, real-time intelligence, and trusted security empower you to build transformative solutions that drive impact across industries.

This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, develop deep technical skills, and enhance your business acumen, while delivering technical engagements that ensure and accelerate customer success as they unify their data platform with Azure services like Fabric and Azure Databricks.

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 drive your team in operating and optimizing complex and high-impact situations for strategic customers/partners in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
- You lead the adoption of Microsoft offerings based on analysis/differentiation of Microsoft and competitor products to influence the industry-wide direction for specific architecture(s).
- You connect gaps and patterns across business and technology areas, and drive changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and/or processes that enable solutions to scale across customers/partners.
- You lead virtual teams around technologies and customer/partner challenges by sharing ideas, insights, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape.

**Qualifications**:
**Required Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 7+ years 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

**Preferred Requirements**:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 12+ years 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, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
- OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
- 6+ years experience leading technical projects in the Data Platform domain (Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, etc).
- Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)

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