Cloud Solution Architecture: Full-Time Opportunity - Las Colinas, TX

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential and excitement for the journey ahead. 

As Cloud Solution Architect, you will gather customer/partner insights and leverages these insights to design architectures, provide expertise/guidance, develop, propose and deliver Microsoft solutions to achieve customer/partner business outcomes and drive to completion the resolution/unblocking of their issues, resulting in accelerated consumption. This opportunity will allow you to leverage knowledge of the products, services, and value propositions of Microsoft and its competitors in customer/partner conversations to identify growth opportunities.​ 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

**Responsibilities**

+ Act as the voice of the customer and partner by identifying and sharing feedback on technical capabilities, blockers, and insights with internal teams.

+ Demonstrate basic technical concepts and support customer skilling needs through design collaboration sessions and discussions on technical delivery with stakeholders.

+ Identify issues and advise customers/partners on optimizing performance according to

+ Microsoft best practices, applying methodology and governance to minimize risks and ensure quality.

+ Learn about Microsoft's Cloud products, services, and value propositions, share learnings with others, gather information to identify growth opportunities, and leverage development opportunities to learn new technologies or services.

**Qualifications**

**Required Qualifications **

+ Currently pursuing or have completed a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field.

+ 1+ year(s) work or internship experience involving 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.

**Preferred Qualifications **

+ 2+ 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.

+ Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).

Cloud Solution Architecture IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $66,900 - $135,000 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 $89,600 - $148,200 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 5, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .