Cloud Solution Architect - Data
Zaventem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Date posted
Aug 08, 2025
Job number
1852368
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Customer Success
Discipline
Cloud Solution Architecture
Employment type
Full-Time
Overview
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) – Data to join our Customer Success Unit. This senior individual contributor role is pivotal in driving customer transformation through data and AI solutions on Microsoft Azure. As a CSA, you will lead technical engagements, shape data strategies, and deliver scalable, secure, and resilient architectures that unlock business value.
You’ll work closely with enterprise customers, engineering teams, and internal stakeholders to accelerate adoption of Azure Data services, including Databricks, Fabric, Cosmos DB, and Azure AI.
Qualifications
- Substantial experience in cloud technologies, data architecture, or IT consulting.
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Proven success in customer-facing roles leading technical engagements and deployments
- Expertise in Azure Data services (Databricks, Fabric, Cosmos DB, Purview, Databases), data governance, and AI integration.
Preferred:
- Certifications such as Azure Data Engineer Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Experience with hybrid data architectures, data resiliency, and unified delivery models
- Strong communication and presentation skills with ability to influence across technical and business domains.
Responsibilities
- Customer Engagement & Strategy
- Lead deep technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, enterprise architects, and data engineers.
- Understand customer business priorities and design data solutions that drive measurable outcomes
- Technical Leadership
- Own technical delivery across design, build, and operations phases for Azure Data workloads.
- Guide customers through proof-of-concepts, pilots, and production deployments using services like Azure Databricks, Fabric, Microsoft Purview, Azure SQL, Postgres, and AI
- Solution Design & Optimization
- Ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency standards.
- frameworks like CAF and WAF to ensure enterprise-grade architecture
- Cross-Team Collaboration
- Partner with CSAMs, Customer Engineers, and Product Groups to drive unified delivery and unblock technical challenges.
- Contribute to reusable IP and delivery frameworks that scale across engagements
- Skilling & Enablement
- Stay current with certifications and technical intensity programs in Azure Data & AI.
- Mentor junior architects and contribute to community calls and skilling initiatives
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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