About this role
Cloud Solution Architect - App & Data Modernization
Overview
Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) Core accelerates customer outcomes and business growth. By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission, we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation - delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable competitive advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market.
Within MCAPS-Core, Cloud + AI Platforms (CAIP) is one of the most strategic businesses worldwide at Microsoft. Given the tremendous momentum in customer pursuit of Digital Transformation, there’s never been a more exciting & compelling time to be a part of the Cloud + AI Platform business at Microsoft!
And within CAIP, the Worldwide Technical Success operates as the bridge between product direction, sales strategy, and scalable delivery execution. It plays a pivotal role in enabling the field, building scale through the Field and Factory, development of reusable intellectual property (IP) and assets, managing field technical escalations and product blockers, influencing product direction, and engaging in high-priority customer engagements.
We are looking to hire a Senior Cloud Solution Architect – App & Data Modernization to help industrialize the path to AI-ready workloads. Modernization is the prerequisite for AI value: legacy applications and the data coupled to them block AI-native experiences, and our team’s mission is to modernize the app and its data together — as one wave, one cutover, one outcome. You will design and build high-quality, repeatable intellectual property (IP) — frequently including code — for broad use by Microsoft delivery teams and partners, and you will build the content and skilling that enables the field to adopt agentic modernization tools at scale.
You will bring depth in application modernization (moving .NET or Java workloads to Azure containerization and PaaS — App Service, Azure Container Apps, AKS, Functions, and API Management) and/or database migration and modernization (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Cassandra, and MongoDB to Azure SQL, Flexible Servers, and Cosmos DB) — ideally both. You do not need to be a full-time developer, but you will be comfortable operating in a developer-centric team: working in modern developer tools and environments, contributing to a code-based IP portfolio, and reasoning through assess → upgrade → remediate → containerize → deploy workflows. Working with agentic tooling — GitHub Copilot’s app-modernization capabilities, Azure Migrate, and the Azure Copilot Migration Agent — you will help shape an industrialized, agent-native approach to modernization, always under human control.
This is a high-impact opportunity to lead innovation at scale and empower customers to unlock the full value of their Cloud and AI