Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Apps at Microsoft

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

18 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

20 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Cloud Application Architecture, Microservices Development, Agile, DevOps, Solution Architecture, Modern .NET Technologies, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps, Application Security, GitHub, Customer Engagement, Technical Delivery, Analytical Problem Solving, Building Relationships, Leadership

Industry

Software Development

Description

Apply broad technical knowledge across various architecture solutions to meet requirements and resolve identified constraints. Develop and expand existing impactful relationships with stakeholders. Participate in external architect community events and share learnings with the internal team. The ideal candidate will have experience in customer-facing roles and success in leading in-depth technical Application development architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Architects, IT Management, and Developers to drive value to our customers and is open to travel to customer site as needed by business. Understanding Customer/Partner Technical Environment (Insights about Customer/Partner and Industry): Gather customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and map architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer/partner business outcomes. Adapt business models, plans, and solutions to insights. Understanding Customer/Partner Technical Environment (Internal Advocacy): Act as the voice of the customer (VOC)/partner by driving new feedback, gaps, blockers, insights, resources, etc. across communities to track, add, and prioritize, using established channels (e.g., UAT/TFT). Architecture Design and Deployment (Architecture Proposals): Receive and synthesize data about customer/partner business and technical requirements, address them with technical architecture(s), demonstrate and prove those solutions capability and business value through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner. Architecture Design and Deployment (Requirements and Constraints): Apply broad technical knowledge across various architecture solutions to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified technical constraints. Help to shape and enhance customers' requirements. Application Development, Architecture Design and Deployment (Resolving Blockers): Identify, escalate, and work to resolve technical blockers (e.g., changing configurations, sample coding) to accelerate architecture implementations and routes non-technical issues for removal by the appropriate party. Trusted Advisor (Challenger Mindset): Respectfully challenge customers/partners when going in the wrong direction and escalate appropriately. Customer Usage: Lead architecture design, resiliency reviews, and technical optimization that result in production deployment application and increase customer business value. Drive efforts to ensure that the customer's environment and applications are well-architected. Customer Satisfaction - Deliver positive Customer Satisfaction and become trusted advisors to customers by leveraging solution area expertise to enable defined Customer Success Plan outcomes. Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 5+ years technical leadership experience in relevant area of business OR equivalent experience. 5+ years of experience in object-oriented programming skills, cloud application architecture and microservices development for public clouds. 5+ years of experience in capturing application requirements, design review meetings, development, designing and deploying software using automated processes and troubleshooting and resolving software defects over Pure Cloud and/or Hybrid environments. 5+ years of experience working with Agile/Scrum, CI/CD or DevOps models involving multiple disciplines of coding, testing and deployment Experience in application development leveraging the GitHub ecosystem Solution Architecture (e.g., SOA, enterprise architecture). Solid Solution Design and Development skills Experience with Modern .NET technologies (e.g., .NET 8/9, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and Dapr). Native-level Japanese language skill with highest level proficiency is a MUST have skill for this position Written, Spoken English level with direct customer facing experience will be a added advantage The role requires knowledge and experience in the following technologies/areas so experience in some of these areas will be expected (Note: Not all skills are mandatory to have): Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, Containers and Orchestrators & Building Cloud Native Applications using Microservices Arch. Azure Functions Azure DevOps & Secure DevOps: Application Security Principles and Practices Azure App Service Azure API Management Azure App Dev using broader range of Azure PAAS Services Azure Application Security Azure Application Insights Azure Redis cache Azure Cosmos DB & Azure SQL Azure Key Vault Azure Service Bus Azure EventHub GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitHub Advanced Security Developing Cross-Platform Web Apps with ASP.NET Core Rest APIs Knowledge & Experience working on Azure AI on topics such as Azure AI Foundry , MLOps, Semantic. Kernel , langchain, GraphRag, RAG, CLU, custom speech service , MCP, A2A , custom copilot , Agentic application , Autogen , SQLRAG, cosmos optimization , Fabric, Data model , Machine Learning, Agentic AI (Agent Service) will be an major advantage. Face-to-face customer engagement skills Technical Delivery and Customer facing presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences. Must have the ability to take on internal initiatives to create services opportunities, and work in a fast-paced environment while balancing multiple demands, addressing shifting priorities, and maintaining focus. Analytical Problem Solving Building Customer/Partner Relationships Leadership

Responsibilities

The Cloud Solution Architect will apply broad technical knowledge across various architecture solutions to meet requirements and resolve constraints while developing relationships with stakeholders. They will lead architecture design and technical optimization efforts to enhance customer business value and satisfaction.