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This IC5 role will serve as a trusted technical advisor to strategic enterprise customers, helping them design, modernise and operate secure, resilient and AI-ready solutions on Microsoft Azure.\nThe role requires strong hands-on architecture and engineering depth across Azure infrastructure and platform services, combined with practical experience in application and database modernisation and a strong understanding of how modern Azure platforms enable AI workloads.\nThe successful candidate will work directly with customer architects, engineers and technology leaders to translate business and technical priorities into executable architectures and modernisation roadmaps. They will lead complex engagements from architecture and readiness assessment through migration, modernisation, production deployment and optimisation, while helping customers establish the secure, governed and scalable platform foundations required for AI.\nAs an IC5 CSA, this individual is expected to operate independently in complex customer environments, influence senior technical stakeholders, provide architectural leadership across multiple technology domains, and contribute technical leadership and best practices across the wider CSA community.\nResponsibilities\nLead Azure architecture and modernisation engagements for strategic enterprise customers, providing deep technical guidance from assessment and architecture through implementation and production adoption.\nArchitect enterprise Azure platforms spanning compute, networking, storage, identity, security, governance, management, observability, business continuity and disaster recovery.\nDrive end-to-end modernisation, helping customers evolve from traditional infrastructure and virtual-machine-based environments towards modern Azure platform services across infrastructure, applications and databases.\nProvide strong database architecture and optimisation expertise, particularly across Azure SQL and SQL Server, including migration, performance optimisation, availability, scalability and modernisation patterns.\nBuild AI-ready cloud foundations, helping customers design landing zones, networking, security, identity, governance, infrastructure-as-code and operational capabilities that support Azure AI and Microsoft Foundry workloads in production.\nPartner with AI and application specialists to help customers take AI solutions beyond experimentation and into secure, scalable and governed production environments.\nAssess customer estates and develop actionable cloud migration and modernisation roadmaps, identifying technical dependencies, risks, architecture decisions and opportunities to accelerate customer outcomes.\nApply architecture best practices for resilience, security, reliability, performance, operational excellence and cost optimisation, helping customers continuously improve the health of their Azure environments.\nUse Infrastructure as Code, automation, GitHub and AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate architecture, deployment and modernisation activities.\nLead technical workshops, architecture/design sessions, proof-of-concepts and production-readiness engagements with customer engineering and architecture teams.\nAct as a trusted technical advisor, simplifying complex technology choices, challenging existing assumptions where appropriate, and helping customers make informed architecture decisions.\nWork closely across Microsoft sales, Customer Success, engineering, Global Delivery, partners and specialist teams to remove technical blockers and accelerate customer solutions into production.\nOwn technical execution against committed customer outcomes and proactively identify opportunities for additional Azure adoption, modernisation and consumption.\nContribute technical leadership to the broader CSA community through mentoring, architecture reviews, reusable patterns, technical content and sharing of customer learnings.\nQualifications\nTechnical Experience\nSignificant experience designing, implementing and operating large-scale enterprise cloud platforms, preferably on Microsoft Azure.\nDeep technical expertise in several core Azure infrastructure domains, including:Azure compute and virtualisation\nAzure networking and hybrid connectivity\nStorage\nIdentity and access\nSecurity and governance\nAzure Landing Zones\nMonitoring and observability\nHigh availability, resiliency and disaster recovery\n\nStrong experience with SQL Server and/or Azure database technologies, with the ability to advise customers on database architecture, migration, modernisation, performance tuning, availability and scalability.\nDemonstrated experience with cloud migration and modernisation, including transitioning traditional infrastructure and applications towards cloud-native and managed Azure services.\nExperience with automation and Infrastructure as Code, such as Bicep, ARM, Terraform, PowerShell, Azure CLI or equivalent technologies.\nGood understanding of DevOps and modern engineering practices, including Git/GitHub and CI/CD.\nAI & Modern Platform Capability\nStrong understanding of the Azure platform requirements for running enterprise AI solutions in production, including networking, identity, security, governance, observability, capacity and operational readiness.\nWorking knowledge of Microsoft Foundry / Azure AI services, generative AI and agentic AI concepts, with the ability to collaborate effectively with specialist AI architects.\nUnderstanding of responsible and governed AI deployment, including security, identity, data protection, observability and lifecycle considerations.\nAbility to rapidly learn emerging technologies and apply them to real customer architecture and engineering scenarios.\nArchitecture & Customer Leadership\nProven ability to design and communicate complex end-to-end enterprise architectures spanning multiple technical domains.\nStrong customer-facing consulting and technical advisory experience with the ability to lead architecture discussions with senior architects, engineering leaders and technology executives.\nAbility to translate business requirements into architecture decisions, technical roadmaps and measurable customer outcomes.\nStrong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with experience working through complex production and architecture challenges.\nDemonstrated ability to influence technical decisions without direct authority and collaborate across customers, partners and multidisciplinary internal teams.\nIC5 Leadership Expectations\nOperates independently across ambiguous and highly complex customer environments.\nProvides technical leadership beyond individual engagements and helps establish architecture patterns and best practices for the broader team.\nMentors and develops other engineers and architects through technical coaching, architecture reviews and knowledge sharing.\nIdentifies emerging customer and technology trends and converts them into reusable approaches that can scale across multiple customers.\nDemonstrates a strong customer-outcome mindset, combining technical depth with commercial awareness and an understanding of how architecture decisions translate into adoption and Azure consumption.\nPreferred Qualifications\nAzure architecture experience equivalent to Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) level.\nExperience with enterprise-scale Azure Landing Zones and hybrid/multi-cloud architecture.\nExperience with regulated enterprise environments, particularly financial services, is highly desirable.\nExperience helping customers move AI, application or data solutions from proof-of-concept into secure and 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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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