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We build giant futures, come build yours join our CASA team, Cloud & AI Solutions Advisors. This is a thriving, fast-moving environment where the future of AI is the day job, and where the people who keep our teams growing sit right at the center of it. As a Digital Cloud Solution Architect, this role is ideal for individuals who enjoy customer-facing engagements, solving technical challenges, and helping organizations realize value from Microsoft technology. You'll work closely with technical decision makers, leveraging customer and industry insights to build credibility and influence technical outcomes. You'll collaborate across Microsoft, partners, and support teams to address customer needs, remove technical blockers, and accelerate adoption of Microsoft Cloud and AI solutions. You'll contribute to demonstrations, design sessions, pilots, and proof-of-concepts, helping customers define success metrics, adoption plans, and business outcomes. The role also offers the opportunity to grow technical expertise, share insights with the broader technical community, and help customers maximize the value of Microsoft's skilling and readiness programs.\nResponsibilities\nArchitecture Design and Deployment\nSolicits input from others to contribute to proposals for viable solutions based on specific technical products. Demonstrates basic technical concepts and proves the capability of those solutions through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner.\nSupports customer/partner projects as needed for specified architecture solutions by investigating a solution area and assisting in research and testing out concepts developed by more senior architects.\nDriving Customer Success\nExecutes according to rhythm of business, captures insights, and uses available tools to drive success of Microsoft cloud solutions by contributing to engagements that others own. Drives One Microsoft mindset.\nCollaborates to build aligned customer timelines that capture sponsorship and projects tied to technology outcomes that add customer value.\nScale Customer Engagements\nDrives technical wins or portions of technical wins with support from peers. Improves customer interactions through feedback and observation.\nEngages with and reaches out to customer technical decision makers with coaching from others. Seeks information about the customer to learn about their business, industry, needs, and key priorities.\nScale Through Partners\nAssists team members to monitor, analyze, or implement action plans to promote customer usage of key/prioritized Microsoft solutions/products that support customer’s business outcomes.\nEngages in partner sell-with scenarios by contributing to the facilitation of technical engagements and partnering with colleagues to manage the sales process.\nTechnical Leadership\nParticipates as a member in the Microsoft tech community, attends community calls, sessions, hackathon, etc. and participates in external architect community events (e.g. conferences, seminars, technical meetups).\nEnsures customer technical teams are aware of and leveraging available skilling programs (e.g. ESI or other digital architect led workshops).\nQualifications\nRequired/minimum qualifications\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field OR Relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms of technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales experience OR 2+ years experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales OR equivalent experience.\nAdditional or preferred qualifications\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years experience in technical architect, consulting, design and implementation, and/or sales OR equivalent experience.\n1+ year(s) experience with cloud-based solution designs, migrations and management of technology.\nDigital Cloud Solution Architecture IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $33.89 - $67.16 per hour. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $45.67 - $73.65 per hour.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\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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