Digital Cloud Solution Architect

At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team-one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation. SME&C is more than a sales organization-it’s a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do. If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how SME&C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business.

Do you love working with customers to achieve their business outcomes? Would you love to build expertise around the leading, next generation cloud services?

As a Digital Cloud Solution Architect (DCSA), you will lead customer AI transformation by conducting Frontier and Core Conversations, translating business priorities into secure, scalable AI, data, and cloud outcomes while accelerating adoption, consumption, and measurable business value. With the aid of best-in-class sales processes, techniques, and technologies, you will be empowered to shape customer relationships for a strategic set of Microsoft's customers. These customers are adopting industry-leading products and services for their businesses, education or government systems. You will serve as the central point of contact for the customer across engagements helping to drive Microsoft's existing cloud & enterprise consumption through developing and managing customer relationships. This role is flexible in that you can work up to up to 100% from home.

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

Architecture Design and Deployment

Leads customer/partner projects that implement technical architecture(s).Provides thought leadership for technical architecture design, development, and deployment and supports the customer/partner throughout pre-sales and/or implementation.

Drives pilots, proof of concept (POC), and value (e.g., optimizing solutions and costs) for multiple technical solutions across technology areas to prove the proposed architecture design. Moves the customer forward from pilots to productive deployments by rooting pilots in business impact. Appropriately leverages growth levers (e.g., Azure Credit Offer [ACO]) to ensure successful adoption of POCs.

Adapts methodology and applies governance to identify, communicate, and/or minimize business and/or technical risks, defines customer/partner conditions of success, adheres to quality assurance, and calculates risks whilst designing and/or delivering solutions.

Receives and synthesizes data about customer/partner business and technical requirements, addresses them with technical architecture(s), and demonstrates and proves the capability and value of those solutions through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner.

Identifies, escalates, and works to resolve technical blockers (e.g., changing configurations, sample coding) to accelerate architecture implementations, and routes non-technical issues for removal by appropriate party.

Driving Customer Success

Builds customer timelines to identify and gain buy in on metrics in conjunction with partners to align with customer's digital transformation initiative and expand customer success coverage as a discipline. Establishes cadence for checking in and reporting on people, process and technology progress.

Drives new workloads jointly with sales team by leading demand generation and actively identifying new engagements. Holds peer teams accountable, and brings insights to drive success of Microsoft cloud solutions by taking ownership of milestones within engagements. Drives One Microsoft mindset.

Identifies gaps and drives new workloads through communication of financial value to the customer, collaborating with sales team and driving new workloads. Builds on their network and industry experience to connect customers with ideas, people, and resources to new support customer opportunities. Cultivates the strategic image of Microsoft as a valued business partner that serves a wide range of customers/partners by aligning the vision for Microsoft cloud technologies with future industry needs. Creates a vision with business solution scenarios and partners/services that helps the customer meet their business goals and achieve their long-term corporate vision. Enables partners to a certain extent on projects to be a part of the client-side team.

Acts as the Voice of the Customer by driving new feedback, blockers, insights, resource (e.g., OneList, End Customer Investment Funds) items across territories so they can be added and prioritized. Represents the customer to product teams to shape products and services by providing insights across the territory.

Scale Customer Engagements

Proactively engages with and reaches out to customer technical decision makers and influencers proactively and independently. Utilizes information on customer business, industry, needs, competitive landscape and key priorities to support customer's digital transformation, challenge them when necessary, and position the customer to deliver architectures. Keeps up to date with customer information, industry and market trends, and compliance regulations.

Leads and ensures technical wins for core and adjacent technologies by leading technical discussions with customers and establishing rules of engagement (e.g., role boundaries, handoff strategies) for extended teams, leveraging knowledge of processes (e.g., Managed Service Provider, co-sell Partners), tools, and programs (e.g., FastTrack, End Customer Investment Funds).Searches for customer references to use in engagements.

Understands team resources and supports efforts to maximize the impact of customer engagements through capacity planning, prioritization, capabilities assessment, and utilization of resources. Receives instructions to prioritize resources and works to maximize selling time to achieve scorecard objectives and subsidiary strategy as directed.

Uses knowledge of customer context, cross-solution or portfolio expertise, and deep technical and market/industry knowledge to build credibility with customers individually or at scale.

Leverages knowledge of resources (e.g., roles, Microsoft Technology Center, demo sites, virtual sites) with limited managerial support and proactively engages product and support teams (e.g., engineering) to remediate blockers by conveying impact.

Scale Through Partners

Engages in partner sell-with scenarios by acting as liaison between the partner and team and shares visibility on partner resources and processes. Raises escalations or alleviates blockers through collaboration with manager-level counterparts in cross-functional groups.

Captures core competitive knowledge across solution areas and delivers back to product and engineering teams to enhance team capabilities and develop compete strategies.

Applies and customizes existing demonstration assets. Demonstrates and oversees demonstrations (e.g., Architectural Design Sessions, Proof of Concept sessions) of solutions based on multiple Microsoft products through initial engagements. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove capabilities and integration into customer environment. Reviews partner demonstrations and provides feedback to ensure alignment with Microsoft standards.

Monitors and analyzes action plans to promote customer usage of key/prioritized Microsoft solutions/products that support customer’s business outcomes. Identifies opportunities to promote usage.

Technical Leadership

Builds their own readiness plan and proactively identifies learning gaps. Grows domain knowledge and practices expertise by communicating with customers, partners, and senior colleagues to expand knowledge of architecture.

Shares ideas, insight, and strategic, technical input with team members using knowledge of Microsoft cloud solutions and their context in the competitive landscape. Provides thought leadership by acting as role model for the architect community and consistently sharing knowledge to increase the functional or technical skills and expertise of peers in ways that impact career goals and business outcomes.

Monitors and responds to internal and external tech community posts, attends community calls, sessions, hackathon, etc., and acts as a mentor for their technology area. Contributes and participates in Customer Executive Briefing Center sessions. Shares best practices internally on community calls and drives recognition of Microsoft Cloud solutions through presentations and engagements with external audiences.

Conducts group training or one-to-many events (e.g., workshops, webinars) to present and educate customers and colleagues on the capabilities and benefits across Microsoft solutions/products. Ensures customer cloud platform enablement by gaining buy in at the C-level for cloud platform readiness and orchestrating various resources within Microsoft, partner, and customer resources to get them on board with Microsoft's cloud platform environment readiness initiative.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
• AND experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Experience with cloud-based solution designs, migrations and management of technology.

Digital Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Ireland is € 60,300.00 - € 102,600.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/ireland-corporate-pay.html

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.