Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI
€65,100 - €110,000 per year
Work Arrangement
Office Days per Week: 1 day
Key Skills
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Proactively act as the voice of the customer, sharing ideas, feedback, insights, success stories and strategic and technical input with internal teams. Identify patterns of feedback across customers and industries and use them to develop strategic and actionable insights that influence product roadmaps and delivery approaches.
- Identify and translate customer problems into industry solutions aligned with Microsoft product and platform strategy, explaining how they meet customer outcomes and return-on-investment goals. Help customers adopt and use cross-solution area cloud and artificial intelligence solutions and build strong relationships with technical and business decision makers, including executive stakeholders.
- Deliver solutions in line with company methodologies, ensuring proven practices and patterns are followed to prepare customers for operational readiness and achievement of their business goals. Help customers deploy for long-term organizational adoption to increase satisfaction and drive cloud usage, while guiding them towards secure, resilient, and cost-optimized architectures.
- Leverage market insights and demand signals to help identify areas for upskilling and readiness, and act as a mentor who leads technical and non-technical learning activities. Contribute to and sometimes lead presentations and community engagements that elevate the Microsoft brand and share learnings across internal and external audiences.
- Operate according to required operational excellence and proven practice standards across all sales and delivery stages. Collaborate across Microsoft and customer teams to achieve objectives, proactively manage business and technical risks, and continuously prioritize work to align with customer and business priorities.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Strong software development background, with hands-on experience building or integrating cloud-based applications and solutions.
- Strong cloud architecture experience, designing secure, scalable and resilient solutions on Azure, AWS, Google Cloud or equivalent.
- Hands-on generative AI experience, designing or delivering solutions using Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Copilot or comparable enterprise AI/developer platforms.
- Proven customer-facing technical experience, working with business and technical decision-makers to take cloud and AI solutions from use case through to adoption.
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep experience translating real customer problems into production-ready AI solutions.
- Experience leading complex technical projects and influencing senior customer stakeholders.
- Relevant cloud, AI or developer certifications.
Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Netherlands is € 65,100.00 - € 110,000.00 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/netherlands-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.
Core Responsibilities
You will act as a Cloud Solution Architect to help customers design and adopt secure, scalable AI and cloud solutions. You are responsible for translating customer business problems into technical strategies while driving organizational change and long-term adoption.
Requirements
Candidates must have a strong background in software development and hands-on experience with cloud architecture on major platforms like Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud. Proficiency in generative AI tools and proven experience in customer-facing technical roles are also required.
About Microsoft
Industry: Software Development
Company size: 10,001+ employees
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