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In this Senior Cloud Solution Architect position, you will partner with customers across Central Europe and Asia in the Customer Success Unit to shape how they build and run intelligent applications and agents on Microsoft Cloud. \nAs a Cloud Solution Architect, you’ll play an instrumental role in helping customers migrate, modernize and transform their architecture and applications, laying the groundwork for world-class, scalable, production-ready AI solutions.\nYou’ll be a trusted advisor, working directly with customer IT and business leaders to shape their transformation strategy, architect secure and scalable solutions, and deliver measurable business impact. From designing roadmaps to leading Proof of Concepts and MVPs, you’ll help customers build and run intelligent applications and AI agents at scale. Your expertise will guide customers through critical milestones, leveraging proven IP and delivery engines to accelerate adoption and unlock value.\nIn this role, you will guide customers from concept to production, taking AI applications and agents from early prototype to enterprise-grade deployment using platforms such as Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Copilot, and Copilot Studio. You will set the technical direction for these engagements, lead roadmap design, and orchestrate virtual teams that span markets, cultures, and business environments. You will also mentor others by sharing patterns, reusable architectures, and delivery practices that accelerate value realization across multiple customers and regions.\nThis is an opportunity to deepen your knowledge across Azure AI, AI agents, applications, serverless, microservices, GitHub, databases, and hybrid environments. You’ll be part of a multinational team that values precision, creativity and impact - where your decisions influence outcomes and your growth is continuous.\nAt Microsoft, our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth-mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress, people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.\nResponsibilities\nJob Responsibilities\nLead strategic architecture engagements with enterprise customers to design and deliver secure, resilient, and cost-optimized cloud solutions that accelerate their transformation, value realization, and adoption of Microsoft Cloud and AI.\nTranslate complex customer challenges into industry-aligned solutions and roadmaps, using proof of concepts, minimum viable products, and rapid prototypes to demonstrate business impact and inform long-term architectures.\nOrchestrate and mentor virtual teams across Microsoft and partner organizations, driving operational excellence, managing technical and business risks, and ensuring a seamless, connected customer experience across markets and cultures.\nAct as a trusted advisor to technical and business decision makers up to C-suite level, aligning security, compliance, and operational requirements with architecture decisions and guiding customers through critical milestones in their cloud and AI journey.\nDrive technical excellence by leading the health, resiliency, security, and optimization of mission-critical application and AI workloads, ensuring readiness for production-scale AI use cases.\nCapture and share patterns, feedback, and technical insights across customers and internal communities to improve offerings, influence product roadmaps, and scale repeatable solutions for intelligent applications and AI agents.\nAchieve and maintain certifications in priority Cloud & AI Apps workloads.\nMaintain deep technical expertise and stay current with market trends, competitive insights, and Microsoft’s evolving application and AI capabilities.\nDemonstrate a growth mindset by continuously learning, contributing to technical communities, sharing best practices and mentoring others to accelerate customer outcomes.\nQualifications\nJob Requirements\nRequired/Minimum Qualifications\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND significant 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.\n\nProven hands-on software development experience: you have designed, written and shipped production code (e.g. C#/.NET, Python, Java, TypeScript), with solid engineering fundamentals.\nExperience with DevOps, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) and infrastructure as code.\nCustomer-facing experience, with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work across multinational teams.\nPreferred Qualifications\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND significant 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 significant experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.\n\nProven experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).\n\nProven experience leading technical projects.\n\nTechnical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, GitHub, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).\n\nPractical experience of software development and/or solution architecture experience in enterprise environments.\nExperience designing and delivering secure, scalable cloud-native and AI applications on Azure (e.g. Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, App Service, Container Apps, AKS, Functions, API Management).\nExperience building AI agents and RAG solutions, and with GitHub Copilot and agentic DevOps.\nExperience with Cosmos DB, Azure SQL or PostgreSQL.\nCloud Solution Architecture IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Czechia is Kč 1,608,000.00 - Kč 3,683,000.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.\nFind additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/czech-republic-corporate-pay.html\nCloud Solution Architecture IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Slovakia is € 61,000.00 - € 156,500.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. \nFind additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/slovakia-corporate-pay.html\nCloud Solution Architecture IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Latvia is € 59,200.00 - € 122,800.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. \nFind additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/latvia-corporate-pay.html\nCloud Solution Architecture IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Romania is lei 279,700.00 - lei 556,300.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. \nFind additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/romania-corporate-pay.html\nCloud Solution Architecture IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Latvia is € 59,200.00 - € 122,800.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. \nFind additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/latvia-corporate-pay.html\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft 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. 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