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As a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA), Cloud & AI - Infrastructure reporting to the Cloud Solution Architect Manager you will enable SMC (Small, Medium, and Corporate) customers & Partners to achieve their business outcomes, based on their investments in Microsoft technology. Leveraging your leading technical team’s expertise, you will drive the team to ensure customers get value from their Microsoft investments.\nIn this role you will adapt business models, plans, and solutions to insights. Act as the voice of the customers (VOC)/partners across communities to add and prioritize. Leverages and champions an existing architecture approach to achieve agreed commitments to the customer/partner. Demonstrate and prove solutions capability and value. Apply broad technical knowledge across various architecture solutions to meet requirements and resolve identified constraints. Lead customer/partner projects that implement technical architecture. Identify, escalate, and work to resolve technical blockers and route non-technical issues for removal. Adapt methodology and apply governance to minimize business and technical risks. Generate new ideas for changes and improvements. Develop and expand existing impactful relationships with stakeholders. Respectfully challenge customers/partners when going in the wrong direction and escalate appropriately. Identify Microsoft's strengths over competitive solutions to convince customers of solution. Share ideas, insight, and strategic, technical input with internal teams using a thorough knowledge of specific Microsoft products and their context in the competitive landscape. Participate in external architect community events and share learnings with the internal team. Lead architecture design, resiliency reviews, and technical optimization that result in production deployment application and increase customer usage/Azure Consumed Revenue. The CSA drives delivery execution through preparedness, precision delivery, overall utilization, and high customer satisfaction in a cost-efficient manner.\nWe’re looking for a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to help customers migrate, modernize and secure their infrastructure, applications, and data on Microsoft Azure, laying the foundation for scalable, production-ready AI solutions. As part of the Cloud + AI Infrastructure team, you’ll deliver engagements focused on migration, modernization, operational excellence and resilient architecture using frameworks like Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework (WAF). You’ll leverage existing Repeatable IP and execution engines for critical milestones, ensure infrastructure, application, and database readiness for AI workloads, and ensure successful deployment that accelerates adoption. You’ll work closely with customer IT leaders to design and implement scalable solutions, resolve blockers, and accelerate adoption of Azure services through repeatable IP and delivery excellence. With deep expertise across Azure infrastructure, applications, databases, SAP, and hybrid environments, you’ll play a key role in helping customers unlock the full value of their Microsoft Azure investments.\nThe ideal candidate has a strong background in enterprise architecture, cloud technologies, and customer collaboration.\nYour Role and Impact:\nStrategic Guidance: Engage with customers & partners to understand their goals and challenges, then provide strategic solutions that maximize the value of their Microsoft technology investments.\nTechnical Leadership: Lead in-depth technical discussions, offering insights and recommendations to overcome complex challenges in data and AI initiatives both On-premises (SQL Server) as well as in Azure.\nEmpowering Customers & Partners: Support customers & Partners in achieving successful outcomes by developing tailored solutions that drive their digital transformation and innovation.\n\nContinuous Growth: Leverage this opportunity to advance your career while enhancing your knowledge and skills in cutting-edge cloud technologies.\n\nResponsibilities\nThe ideal candidate will have experience in customer-facing roles and success in leading in-depth technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Architects, IT Management, and Developers to drive value to our customers and is open to travel to customer site as needed by business.\nKey responsibilities include:\nUnderstanding Customer/Partner Technical Environment (Insights about Customer/Partner and Industry): Gather customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and map architecture, and Digital & AI transformation solutions to customer/partner business outcomes. Adapt business models, plans, and solutions to insights.\nUnderstanding Customer/Partner Technical Environment (Internal Advocacy): Act as the voice of the customer (VOC)/partner by driving new feedback, gaps, blockers, insights, resources, etc. across communities to track, add, and prioritize, using established channels.\nArchitecture Design and Deployment (Architecture Proposals): Receive and synthesize data about customer/partner business and technical requirements, address them with technical architecture(s), demonstrate and prove those solutions capability and business value through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner.\nArchitecture Design and Deployment (Requirements and Constraints): Apply broad technical knowledge across various of architecture solutions to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified technical constraints. Help to shape and enhance customers' requirements.\nArchitecture Design and Deployment (Resolving Blockers): Identify, escalate, and work to resolve technical blockers (e.g., changing configurations, sample coding) to accelerate architecture implementations and routes non-technical issues for removal by the appropriate party.\nTrusted Advisor (Challenger Mindset): Respectfully challenge customers/partners when going in the wrong direction and escalate appropriately.\nTrusted Advisor (Competitor Insights/ Differentiated Value Proposition): Understand the competitor's architecture solutions and identify Microsoft's strengths over competitive solutions to drive conversations with customers/partners and convince them of solution.\nCustomer Usage: Lead architecture design, resiliency reviews, and technical optimization that result in production deployment application and increase customer business value. Drive efforts to ensure that the customer's environment and applications are well-architected.\nCustomer Satisfaction - Deliver positive Customer Satisfaction, and become trusted advisors to customers by leveraging solution area expertise to enable defined Customer Success Plan outcomes.\nQualifications\nBachelor’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 \nOR 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 \nOR equivalent experience \n\n6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external). \n6+ years experience working on technical projects \nBusiness communications - reading, writing and speaking English. （英語のCV提出必須）\nNative Japanese reading & writing with highest proficiency is a must. \nTechnical Expertise:\nAzure Cloud Solution Architects should be experienced at implementing, automating, and troubleshooting Microsoft Azure Infrastructure solutions.\nThe Azure Cloud Solution Architect role requires knowledge and experience in a number of the following technologies/areas: \nAzure Infrastructure Core (Storage, Network, Compute) \nCloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework\nAzure Landing Zones \nAzure Backup & Site Recovery \nAzure Migration\nAzure Governance, Azure Policy, Management Groups, Governance / Compliance as Code\nKnowledge of Azure Monitor, Log Analytics\nAzure ExpressRoute\nVirtual Network\nVPN Gateway\nAzure Arc \nAzure Virtual Machines \nAzure Virtual Desktop\nAzure VMWare Solution\nARM JSON or Terraform Templates - (Infrastructure as code) Azure CLI and/or PowerShell\nStrong understanding of Windows Server and/or Linux Operating Systems\nWorking knowledge of On-Premises Infrastructure Concepts; AD DS, DNS, Monitoring, Patching\nSecurity concepts for Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Operating Systems\nEntra ID / Azure Active Directory (AAD) and Azure AD Connect knowledge and experience.\nMicrosoft Certifications qualifications (e.g. Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305, Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104)\n\nSkills in the following technologies would be considered desirable and will be a candidate’s differentiator: \nAzure Security Center\nAzure Sentinel\nConfiguration as code, such as Desired State Configuration (DSC)\nAutomation / Orchestration knowledge - Azure Automation, Runbooks\nMicrosoft Azure Stack Hub / Hybrid Cloud - Connected and/or Disconnected Scenario\nAzure PaaS, Containers, App Services, REST APIs, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) \n\nAdditional qualification required:\nAnalytical Problem Solving\nBuilding Customer/Partner Relationships\nLeadership\nValue Selling\nStrong presentation skills\nFace-to-face customer engagement skills\nTechnical Delivery and Customer facing presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences.\nMust have the ability to take on internal initiatives to create services opportunities, and work in a fast-paced environment while balancing multiple demands, addressing shifting priorities, and maintaining focus. \n\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. 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