Microsoft Customer & Partner Solutions accelerates customer outcomes and business growth. By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission, we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation - delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable competitive advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market.
We’re looking for a Sr. Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) focused on Cloud & AI Data to help customers build unified, governed, secure, and AI-ready data estates on Microsoft Azure. In this customer-facing role, you’ll work with customers to design and deliver data platform, analytics, and database solutions that enable production-scale AI and agent scenarios. You’ll lead technical engagements across architecture design, proof of concepts, and production deployments, using repeatable IP, Factory, Unified VAS, and data acceleration programs to move customers from data foundation to scalable, production-grade outcomes.
As part of the Cloud & AI Data team, you’ll help customers grow data platform adoption, improve workload health, resiliency, security, and capacity, and unlock value from Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Purview, Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL, Cosmos DB, Microsoft IQ, and related AI capabilities.
This position is located in Huntsville, AL and the person for this role is expected to be onsite in Huntsville.
Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field OR equivalent experience
4+ 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 OR equivalent experience.
Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. 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 $137,600 - $222,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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.
