Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect - Azure AI 

Australia, New South Wales, Sydney 

468211232

• Familiarity or direct exposure to key AI scenarios that are driving innovation in industries such as Financial Services, Retail, Healthcare, etc.
• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, Management, Data Scientists, Engineers, etc.)

• Accelerate new customer opportunities from Proof of Concept (PoC) to Production for Azure AI workloads such as Azure OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Search, and Azure Machine Learning
• Provide customers with Generative AI expertise and advisory through architecture designs, proof of concepts, production reviews, and post-sales support
• Expand and grow Azure AI adoption for existing customer base
• Lead and provide guidance in technical escalations to unblock AI customers in collaboration with Microsoft stakeholders
• Provide expert perspective to key stakeholders to increase platform adoption through customer insights & feedback on a regular basis
• Drive product improvement and influence roadmap with Engineering through deep technical insights
• Increase AI technical intensity in the field through upskilling, sharing best practices, and scaling repeatable IP

Technical Experience
• Enterprise-scale technical experience with Azure AI Services including Azure OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Search, Azure Speech, Azure Machine Learning (or equivalent), Generative AI, LLM customization, NLP, Search
• "Hands on" experience creating AI Proof of Concepts, and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) leading to production deployments
• The technical aptitude and experience to learn new technologies and understand market and relevant cloud trends
• Breadth of technical experience and knowledge (preferred):
o Application development skills - ability to implement a back end orchestration app (Python or similar) and integrate with Azure AI and other services
o Architecture Design – the ability to create and explain 3-tier architecture diagrams, system context diagrams, system interaction diagrams, etc.
o Experience in architecting deployments for production in an enterprise setting including infrastructure knowledge, security, networking, and other considerations.