Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) - Azure Cloud-native & AI Applications

We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) focusing on Azure Cloud-native and AI Applications. This customer-facing position will use all its hands-on technical experience spanning across design, build/code, and operations to remove customer technical obstacles and adoption challenges, leading and orchestrating all technical resources necessary for the evolution and completion of the project with the best possible success for the customer. For strategic projects, this position will be also part of co-development squad with customer to develop innovative and high-quality solutions, aiming to fast start and derisk the beginning of the project, that will be catched by partners or customer to continue the development to the end. The ideal candidate will have experience in software development, DevOps practices, and a strong ability to work in a team.

Responsibilities

Understanding Customer Technical Environment

Collect and analyze customer insights to align architectural and digital transformation solutions with business objectives. Represent customer needs, driving improvements and prioritizing requirements with internal teams.

Architecture Design and Deployment

Lead technical architecture projects by aligning business and technical requirements, applying broad expertise to overcome constraints and deliver scalable, secure, and reliable solutions. Demonstrate solution value through collaborative design sessions with customers, driving tangible results and identifying growth opportunities.

Lead technical architecture projects, taking ownership of the recommended architecture and actively working throughout all project phases up to production to ensure its success. Provide strategic guidance in design, development, and deployment, supporting customers and partners, identifying, escalating, and resolving technical blockers to accelerate solution implementation, and making necessary adjustments to guarantee architectural success. Route non-technical issues to the appropriate teams.

Adapts methodology and applies governance to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks (e.g. Well-Architected Framework, Enterprise Scale Landing Zone, Cloud Adoption Framework). Defines customer/partner conditions of success, adheres to quality assurance, and calculates risks while designing and/or delivering solutions.

Co-development of strategic solutions with customers

Collaborate with clients and partners to define project scopes and technical requirements.

Develop and implement software solutions using agile methodologies (SCRUM/Agile).

Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub.

Implement security practices and infrastructure as code (IaC).

Participate in ideation and design thinking sessions to define approaches and solutions for business problems.

Conduct architecture design sessions to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable solutions.

Apply observability practices, unit tests, load tests, integration tests, design patterns, and code best practices.

Contribute to the creation of technical documentation and progress reports.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, 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.

This role requires proficiency in written, reading, and conversational Brazilian Portuguese and English.

Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, technology management

Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud native applications through software design, development, deployment and app refactoring/migrations

Understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments (including migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud)

Experience with scalable architecture using Web application server technologies and Application Cloud Services like Azure Services: App Service, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), microservice frameworks, SDKs etc. Knowledge of Azure, Terraform, and other infrastructure as code tools.

Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e. Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub, Visual Studio) and proven experience in software development, with solid foundation in Software Engineering Fundamentals, being able to design and build production-level solutions that are scalable, secure (secure development practices), and reliable. Proficiency in agile methodologies and SCRUM.

Strong understanding of AI and Generative AI technologies.

Ability to learn quickly and adapt to a dynamic environment, being passionate about learning and driven by challenges, with ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

Strong communication and problem-solving skills to solve customer problems through cloud technologies.

Additional or preferred qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, 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, Liberal Arts, 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.

Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications) experience in Data & AI projects.

Experience with observability and system monitoring practices.

Experience with third-party solution integration and microservices.

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.