Cloud Solution Architect

Overview Microsoft Customer & Partner Solutions accelerates customer outcomes and business growth. By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission, we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation
- delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable competitive advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market. We are looking for a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to help customers move AI applications and agents from experimentation to production on Azure. In this customer-facing role, you will lead technical engagements across architecture design, proof of concepts, pilots, and production milestones, accelerating adoption of Azure AI Foundry, Agent Factory, GitHub, app platforms, and supporting data services. As part of the Cloud and AI Apps team, you will use repeatable IP, templates, agents, Factory, Unified VAS, and Acceleration Programs to deliver scalable outcomes, generate incremental pipeline, and improve customer time-to-value. You will help ensure customer health, resiliency, sovereignty, security, capacity, and optimization for mission-critical workloads, while contributing feedback and reusable assets that improve delivery quality at scale. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We foster a culture built on a growth mindset, innovation, collaboration, and inclusion. Guided by our values of respect, integrity, and accountability, we create an environment where everyone can thrive, contribute their best work, and make a meaningful impact. Responsibilities
• Partner with customer IT and business leaders to design secure, scalable AI, agent, application, and data solutions that deliver business value.
• Lead technical engagements from architecture and proof of concept through production, accelerating adoption of Microsoft AI, GitHub, application, and data technologies.
• Drive end-to-end technical outcomes by collaborating with customers, partners, and teams across Microsoft.
• Identify opportunities to expand adoption and help customers realize greater value from Microsoft technologies.
• Provide technical leadership across AI applications, agents, application modernization, security, resiliency, and production readiness.
• Champion customer needs and collaborate with engineering and product teams to address technical challenges and deployment blockers.
• Develop and share reusable technical assets and best practices that improve delivery and accelerate customer success.
• Continue building deep expertise across Azure AI, Copilot, GitHub, cloud-native development, DevOps, and related technologies while contributing to technical communities. Qualifications Required

qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND several years experience in AI, GitHub, Agentic DevOps, AI Agent development, cloud, developer, application platform, agents, or related technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience
• Experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
• Experience working on technical projects
• Fluency in Dutch or French language Preferred qualificaitons:
• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND several years experience in in AI, GitHub, Agentic DevOps, AI Agent development, cloud, developer, application platform, agents, or related technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
• Technical Certification in AI, Cloud, Developer or Agents (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, GitHub, AI, Agents, Security certifications) Cloud Solution Architecture IC3
- The typical base pay range for this role across Belgium is € 55,400.00
- € 93,700.00 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/belgium-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.