Artificial Intelligence - Toronto, Canada - Microsoft Canada

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    Overview

    Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

    We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Artificial Intelligence (AI) Cloud Solution Architect to drive high priority customer initiatives on the Microsoft Azure Platform in collaboration with our customers, partners, and other Microsoft teams.

    Qualifications

    Required/Minimum Qualifications

    • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 2+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
      • OR equivalent experience.

    Additional or Preferred Qualifications

    • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 5+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
      • OR equivalent experience.
    • 2+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
    • 2+ years experience working on technical projects.

    Cloud Solution Architecture IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $64,600 - CAD $125,400 per year.

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    Responsibilities

    As a customer-facing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Cloud Solution Architect, you will be focused on solving customer-driven business problems with AI and Machine Learning (ML). Key responsibilities include:

    • Understand and support customers' overall AI strategy and success by designing and implementing AI-based solutions
    • Help accelerate solution delivery through architecture reviews, PoC/MVP development, and setting up environments and platforms
    • Support customer skilling by making skilling recommendations or delivering technical discussions, workshops, and other cloud and AI readiness activities
    • Collaborate with other cloud solution architects (infrastructure, data, security, and application development) in developing complex end-to-end solutions on Microsoft Azure
    • Ensure that solution exhibits performance, security, scalability, maintainability and reliability upon deployment.
    • Address technical blockers and accelerate deployment to production
    • Continuously maintain and update technical skills and knowledge and keep up to date with market trends
    • Be an Azure AI evangelist with customers, partners, and external communities
    • Generates new ideas for changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and processes for designated customers