Azure Enterprise Architect - Modernisation & AI Platform

microsoft regional sales pte. ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Microsoft Regional Sales Pte. Ltd. seeks a Senior Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) for Azure Infrastructure, Modernisation & AI to guide strategic enterprise customers. You will translate business priorities into executable architectures, lead migrations, and build secure, scalable foundations for AI workloads in production.

You will influence senior stakeholders, drive end-to-end engagements, and contribute best practices across the CSA community, delivering measurable customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• Significant enterprise cloud design, implementation and operation experience on Azure.
• Deep expertise in Azure compute, networking, storage, security, governance, and observability.
• Experience with SQL Server/Azure DB, migration and performance tuning.
• Automation and IaC (Bicep/ARM/Terraform/PowerShell/Azure CLI).
• Strong DevOps with Git/GitHub and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Lead Azure architecture and modernisation engagements for strategic enterprise customers, providing deep technical guidance from assessment and architecture through implementation and production adoption.
• Architect enterprise Azure platforms spanning compute, networking, storage, identity, security, governance, management, observability, business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Drive end-to-end modernisation, helping customers evolve from traditional infrastructure and virtual-machine-based environments towards modern Azure platform services across infrastructure, applications and databases.
• Provide strong database architecture and optimisation expertise, particularly across Azure SQL and SQL Server, including migration, performance optimisation, availability, scalability and modernisation patterns.
• Build AI-ready cloud foundations, helping customers design landing zones, networking, security, identity, governance, infrastructure-as-code and operational capabilities that support Azure AI and Microsoft Foundry workloads in production.
• Partner with AI and application specialists to help customers take AI solutions beyond experimentation and into secure, scalable and governed production environments.
• Assess customer estates and develop actionable cloud migration and modernisation roadmaps, identifying technical dependencies, risks, architecture decisions and opportunities to accelerate customer outcomes.
• Apply architecture best practices for resilience, security, reliability, performance, operational excellence and cost optimisation, helping customers continuously improve the health of their Azure environments.
• Use Infrastructure as Code, automation, GitHub and AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate architecture, deployment and modernisation activities.
• Lead technical workshops, architecture/design sessions, proof-of-concepts and production-readiness engagements with customer engineering and architecture teams.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor, simplifying complex technology choices, challenging existing assumptions where appropriate, and helping customers make informed architecture decisions.
• Work closely across Microsoft sales, Customer Success, engineering, Global Delivery, partners and specialist teams to remove technical blockers and accelerate customer solutions into production.
• Own technical execution against committed customer outcomes and proactively identify opportunities for additional Azure adoption, modernisation and consumption.
• Contribute technical leadership to the broader CSA community through mentoring, architecture reviews, reusable patterns, technical content and sharing of customer learnings.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Customer-facing

Mentoring

DevOps practices

Education

Azure AZ-305 certification

Tools

Bicep

ARM

Terraform

PowerShell

Azure CLI

GitHub

Job description

Microsoft Regional Sales Pte. Ltd. seeks a Senior Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) for Azure Infrastructure, Modernisation & AI to guide strategic enterprise customers. You will translate business priorities into executable architectures, lead migrations, and build secure, scalable foundations for AI workloads in production.

You will influence senior stakeholders, drive end-to-end engagements, and contribute best practices across the CSA community, delivering measurable customer outcomes.