Enterprise Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Platforms

<b>Overview</b><br><h1 style="margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #0b508d;"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #0f6cbd;">About Microsoft</span></h1><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. We bring a growth mindset to everything we do, and we build a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.</span></p><h1 style="margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #0b508d;"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #0f6cbd;">The opportunity</span></h1><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As an Enterprise Cloud Solution Architect in our Australia and New Zealand Customer Success team, you will be the most senior Azure technical leader for a small portfolio of strategic enterprise and public sector customers with significant, multi-year Azure commitments. Your customers span enterprise commercial, financial services, and public sector.</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is an enterprise-wide, cross-solution role spanning Azure AI, infrastructure, data and security. You will bring executive presence and deep delivery experience, partnering with C-level leaders on strategy while owning the architecture quality and platform health that let customers run mission-critical workloads and take AI into production with confidence. The focus is on realising value from commitments customers have already made, rather than pursuing new deals.</span></p><br><br><b>Responsibilities</b><br><h1 style="margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #0b508d;"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #0f6cbd;">What you’ll do</span></h1><h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0cm; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #0f6cbd;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #0f6cbd;">Executive strategy and trusted advice</span></h2><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Engage CIOs, CTOs and CDOs to shape Cloud and AI strategy, including sovereignty, resiliency and security.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Act as trusted technical advisor, presenting clear, evidence-based recommendations to executives.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Co-create cloud adoption plans and roadmaps covering architecture, security, resiliency and cost.</span></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0cm; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #0f6cbd;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #0f6cbd;">Architecture leadership and platform health</span></h2><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Take accountability for the health of each customer’s Azure platform: proactive resiliency, security, governance, capacity, optimization and planning for service retirements.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Own end-to-end architecture quality as a design gatekeeper for mission-critical workloads.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Architect major initiatives such as secure migrations and agentic AI solutions, and contribute enterprise-wide architecture and horizon planning, raising key decisions early.</span></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0cm; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #0f6cbd;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #0f6bbd;">Cloud and AI value realization</span></h2><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lead the Azure consumption plan side by side with the Customer Success Account Manager, accelerating, optimizing and recovering value from multi-year Azure commitments.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Protect and grow realized cloud value by identifying the next-best workload and bringing expansion insights, such as resiliency improvements, to account and specialist sales teams.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Demonstrate the value of Microsoft Unified enterprise support services and plan for right-sized delivery.</span></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0cm; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #0f6cbd;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #0f6cbd;">Delivery orchestration</span></h2><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Orchestrate, rather than replace, delivery: nominate customers for accelerated deployment programs and align delivery of architects and engineering teams.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oversee committed projects from commitment through completion and realised consumption, shaping technical delivery plans with technical specialists and sales engineers.</span></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0cm; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #0f6cbd;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #0f6cbd;">AI and innovation</span></h2><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ready the infrastructure and data estate for production-scale AI with Fabric, AI Foundry and Databricks.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Help customers build and scale AI agents through AI agent build programs, positioning Microsoft IQ as the intelligence layer and getting agents into production on a governed AI platform.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lead initiatives such as proactive resiliency, the AI path to production, GitHub, Azure Arc and Fabric.</span></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0cm; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #0f6cbd;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #0f6cbd;">Leadership and community</span></h2><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Act as technical spokesperson and mentor, run business and delivery reviews, and contribute to enablement.</span></li></ul><h1 style="margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #0b508d;"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #0f6cbd;">Who you’ll work with</span></h1><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You will partner with executive sponsors, CIOs, CTOs and IT directors, platform teams and Cloud Centres of Excellence, security and operations teams, and application owners. Inside Microsoft, you will work with account executives, technical specialists, sales engineers, Customer Success Account Managers, and delivery architects and engineering teams.</span></p><h1 style="margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #0b508d;"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #0f6cbd;">How success is measured</span></h1><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Success shows up as growth in realised Azure consumption, healthy performance against customers’ multi-year commitments, wider adoption of Microsoft enterprise support services, faster deployments across your portfolio, AI agents running in production, and measurably improved platform health.</span></p><br><br><b>Qualifications</b><br><h1 style="margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #0b508d;"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #0f6cbd;">Qualifications</span></h1><h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0cm; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #0f6cbd;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #0f6cbd;">Required</span></h2><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">10+ years in technology or consulting roles, including substantial experience as an enterprise cloud architect.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Deep, hands-on Azure expertise across infrastructure, data, AI and security.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Proven ability to engage and influence C-level and senior technology executives.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Track record of large-scale migrations and designing mission-critical, resilient architectures.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Experience overseeing delivery at programme level across multiple workstreams and partners.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.</span></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0cm; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #0f6cbd;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #0f6cbd;">Preferred</span></h2><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert and related Azure certifications.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure AI Foundry and building AI agents.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">GitHub and DevOps practices, plus hybrid and multicloud management with Azure Arc.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Knowledge of data sovereignty and regulated industries such as financial services and government.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Australian security clearance (desirable for some public sector and defence engagements).</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Commercial acumen with consumption-based cloud agreements.</span></li></ul> <br><p>This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.</p><br><hr><br><p>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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html"><b><u>requesting accommodations.</u></b></a></p>