Cloud Solution Architect / Cloud + AI Platform Full-time LOA backfill

Role overview

Customer engagement and architecture

• Build trusted relationships with customer IT decision makers, serve as the Voice of the Customer, share insights, and work with Microsoft engineering teams to remove blockers.
• Lead architecture sessions and design secure, scalable, resilient infrastructure solutions aligned to customer goals using the Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework.
• Own end-to-end technical delivery results and ensure complete, accurate consumption and customer success plans in collaboration with the CSAM.

Delivery and adoption

• Drive migration and modernization milestones across infrastructure, data, SAP, and AI workloads, including committed proofs of concept and production deployments.
• Optimize customer environments for health, resilience, security, and performance to enable production-scale AI use cases.
• Deliver repeatable intellectual property, contribute to centralized IP development, and resolve technical blockers to accelerate go-live and delivery excellence.
• Identify next-best actions that generate incremental pipeline and align with Unified Enterprise Support priorities.
• Share best practices and contribute to technical communities and knowledge reuse.

Technical focus

• The role draws on expertise across Azure infrastructure, applications, databases, SAP, and hybrid environments.
• Priority workloads for ongoing skilling include Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, AKS, App Service, AVS, SAP Native and RISE, Windows, Linux, and Defender for Cloud.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field and at least 4 years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
• Relevant experience includes cloud or infrastructure technologies, IT consulting or support, systems administration, network operations, software development or support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, or consulting.

Preferred qualifications

• Preferred: related bachelor's degree with at least 8 years of relevant experience, or related master's degree with at least 6 years, or equivalent experience.
• Preferred: at least 4 years in a customer-facing role and at least 4 years working on technical projects.
• Preferred: technical cloud certification, such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or a security certification.

Compensation

• The typical base pay range across Canada is CAD $96,000 to CAD $177,600 per year.

Assignment

• This is a maternity-leave backfill expected to continue until the current employee returns; the return timing may change and continued placement in this specific role is not guaranteed beyond the assignment.