Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Azure Networking

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 seeking a highly experienced Senior Cloud Solution Architect – Azure  Networking   who combines deep technical expertise with strategic leadership to accelerate Azure Networking adoption and customer success. This role focuses on developing and scaling Azure Networking intellectual property, influencing product direction through customer and partner engagement, supporting migration and implementation initiatives, and collaborating with engineering teams to resolve complex customer challenges.    The ideal candidate will serve as a trusted advisor across Microsoft, customers, partners, and engineering teams to drive best practices for networking modernization, hybrid connectivity, cloud migration, security, resiliency, and large-scale Azure networking deployments.    Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We foster a culture of innovation, inclusion, collaboration, and continuous learning where employees are encouraged to make a meaningful impact for customers and the wider technology community.

Azure Networking Strategy and Intellectual Property Development   Develop, maintain, and guide the creation of Azure Networking intellectual property (IP), including reference architectures, migration frameworks, implementation guidance, design patterns, best practices, workshops, white papers, technical training, and reusable customer-facing assets.   Create and curate comprehensive guidance for customers migrating network architectures and workloads from on-premises environments and other cloud providers to Azure.   Educate internal teams, partners, and customers on Azure Networking capabilities, design principles, operational best practices, security, resiliency, performance, and governance.   Identify recurring customer challenges and industry trends and translate them into scalable guidance and enablement content that accelerates customer success.   Leverage AI-powered tools and automation to improve content development, architectural analysis, knowledge dissemination, and field enablement.   Product Advocacy and Engineering Engagement   Serve as a strategic liaison between customers, partners, field organizations, consulting teams, and Azure Networking product groups.   Represent customer and partner requirements to engineering teams and advocate for features, enhancements, and platform investments that improve