Senior Azure & AI Cloud Architect

Microsoft Corporation; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Microsoft Corporation seeks a Cloud + AI Enterprise Architect to lead Azure delivery and strategy for large enterprise accounts. You’ll translate complex business needs into scalable Azure solutions, guiding optimization of MACC usage and multi-year Azure commitments across existing agreements.

You’ll mentor teams, run architecture design workshops, and ensure secure, high-availability end-to-end implementations using CAF and WAF. Strong customer-facing leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 7+ 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
• 6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external)
• 6+ years experience leading technical projects
• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google) preferred
• Business relationship management / Trusted Advisor / Change management / Customer advocacy / Architecture Design

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and executives at large enterprise customers, helping define and execute transformative Cloud & AI strategies
• Provide technical vision and leadership for complex, high-impact projects
• Proactively use expert knowledge in customer conversations to influence solutions and drive consumption
• Lead and accelerate Azure consumption plans, ensuring alignment to customer success
• Inspire customer innovation by helping them adopt AI at scale, guiding them through their transformation journey
• Anticipate and resolve critical business and technical challenges to accelerate value realization
• Lead architectural design workshops and oversee implementation and QA of secure, scalable end-to-end solutions using CAF, WAF and best practices
• Collaborate with account teams to support account planning, deal creation and execution of consumption and customer success plans
• Share responsibility for Azure and Unified Health within accounts, supporting expansion and renewals
• Demonstrate mastery across AI applications, infrastructure and data for production-scale AI use cases
• Maintain advanced certifications across priority workloads such as Azure AI Foundry, GitHub, App Services, Databricks, Fabric

Skills

Azure

Cloud architecture

AI applications

Well-Architected Framework

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering or related field

Tools

CAF

WAF

Azure

Job description

Microsoft Corporation seeks a Cloud + AI Enterprise Architect to lead Azure delivery and strategy for large enterprise accounts. You’ll translate complex business needs into scalable Azure solutions, guiding optimization of MACC usage and multi-year Azure commitments across existing agreements.

You’ll mentor teams, run architecture design workshops, and ensure secure, high-availability end-to-end implementations using CAF and WAF. Strong customer-facing leadership is essential.