Sr. Cloud Solution Architecture Data & AI

We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled Data Platform & Advanced Analytics/Artificial Intelligence Sr. Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to join our Customer Success Unit within the Israeli Data & AI Team. This pivotal role is customer-facing and encompasses a broad range of responsibilities, including the design, build, and maintenance of Azure applications, with a key emphasis on problem-solving to overcome technical barriers and drive customer adoption.
You will own the Data Platform & Advanced Analytics technical customer engagements including architectural design sessions, specific implementation projects and/or MVPs. The ideal candidate will have experience in customer-facing roles and success leading deep technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, IT Management and Developers to drive Data Platform and Advanced Analytics solutions to productions.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include:
Understand the customer's overall applications portfolio, business priorities, and success measures to design robust architectures and solutions (including third-party solutions (.
Apply technical knowledge to architect solutions that meet business needs, create Data Platform, Data Migration Strategy, Analytics and AI roadmaps, and ensure long term technical viability of new deployments, infusing key analytics technologies where appropriate (e.g. SQL Server, Azure Synapse, Azure ML, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Data Factory, Big Data, Data Lake, Azure Databricks, Power BI, etc.)
Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects and stakeholders to develop complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Azure platform, ensuring that all solutions adhere to the "Well-Architected" framework, exhibiting high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment.
Lead Architectural Design Sessions to build an implementation plan aligning with customer business goals and their technical environment. This will result in a consensus on solution design and the next steps toward production.
Develop deep relationships with key customer decision-makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company, enabling them to be cloud advocates.
Be the Voice of the Customer; share insights and best practices and connect with Engineering teams to eliminate blockers.
Troubleshoot technical issues to demonstrate the value of implementing Azure technologies.
Assess the Customers' knowledge of the Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners.
Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community.
Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners, and external communities.