Overview
The Senior Data & Analytics Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) is a customer‑facing technical leadership role responsible for shaping, landing, and accelerating modern data platform and analytics solutions on Microsoft Azure. Operating as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers, you help them envision and implement data‑driven transformations that improve business performance, unlock AI innovation, and enable secure, scalable cloud adoption in alignment with Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Well‑Architected pillars.
You will bring deep expertise across data architecture, data engineering, modern analytics, and AI‑ready platforms. You work closely with Customer Success Account Managers (CSAMs), Technical Specialists, Engineering, and Partner teams to remove technical blockers, drive consumption, and ensure customers realise measurable value from their Azure investments.
You will guide customers through the full solution lifecycle—from strategic design sessions and architecture reviews to hands‑on implementation guidance, governance, optimisation, and production readiness. You will lead conversations on topics such as data lakehouse design, real‑time analytics, data governance (including Purview), AI/ML operationalisation, migration of legacy data estates, and secure, cost‑efficient architectures for enterprise data workloads.
The role requires strong executive presence, the ability to simplify complex technical concepts, and a passion for enabling customers to maximise the impact of analytics and AI. You will contribute to reusable patterns, best practices, and internal community knowledge sharing to elevate the data & AI capability across the organisation. Your influence spans strategic customers, industry verticals, and Microsoft’s internal product feedback loops.
Responsibilities
Demonstrated contributions to technical communities, reusable assets, or field enablement initiatives.
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. 
