Cloud Solution Architect - AI Business Solutions
The Customer Success Architect (CSA) for AI Business Solutions is responsible for enabling Microsoft’s enterprise customers to achieve business transformation through AI-powered solutions. Operating within the Customer Success Unit (CSU), the CSA plays a strategic role in leading technical engagements across AI Workforce and AI Business Process portfolios. This includes designing and implementing secure, scalable, and resilient architectures using Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Power Platform.
The CSA guides customers through the entire Copilot journey, from envisioning to deployment and adoption, applying value-based delivery frameworks and Success by Design methodologies. In this capacity, the CSA serves as a trusted advisor and advocate for customers and partners, translating feedback and insights into actionable solutions that align with industry best practices.
Beyond technical delivery, the CSA acts as a business strategist and customer advocate, translating feedback and insights into actionable solution designs that align with industry trends and customer goals. The role demands strong business value literacy, the ability to articulate ROI and transformation impact, and experience in change management and customer success planning. The CSA identifies opportunities to drive consumption and usage growth, ensures operational excellence, and collaborates across engineering, field, and partner teams to scale delivery and support unified customer success.
This position is recognized for technical excellence, innovation, business strategy, and customer obsession.
Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ 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, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.
4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
4+ years experience working on technical projects.
Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, AI, Power Platform, M365 and security certifications).
Responsibilities
Proactively acts as the voice of the customer/partner, sharing ideas, feedback, insights, success stories and strategic/technical input with Engineering teams, Product Offerings teams and internal communities leveraging relevant insights from feedback tools and systems. Identifies patterns of feedback across customers/partners/territories/industries and leverages them to develop strategic and actionable insights. Presents business cases to program managers to influence product roadmaps, decision making, bug fix prioritization, and own and drive initiatives as appropriate.
Identifies and/or translates customer/partner problems into industry solutions aligned with Microsoft product and platform strategy, and explains why and/or how they meet customer/partner outcomes and return on investment (ROI) goals (e.g., via proof of concept, minimally viable product [MVP], rapid prototype) relative to competitive offerings.
Proactively helps the customer/partner adopt and use Microsoft product/platform strategy-aligned (cross-solution area) solutions. Builds relationships with technical decision makers (TDMs), and helps build the bridge between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs). Independently interacts as needed with customers/partners' Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and other C-level (CXO) roles to bridge understanding of security, compliance, operational and risk requirements across BDMs, TDMs, CIO and CISO teams, appropriately engaging additional subject matter experts when deeper expertise is required.
Drives self and guides other team members to focus on customer/partner experience through efficient delivery and ensuring a seamless and connected customer experience. Defines customer/partner conditions of success by leveraging an understanding of customer goals. Anticipates and addresses customer/partner dissatisfaction and unmet needs, and executes strategies to improve customer experience, value realization, and acceleration of transformation.
Identifies and prioritizes several opportunities that align with revenue goals, and orchestrates growth of solution utilization pipeline with partners. Provides assistance with partner and sales teams to bring clarity to specific opportunities through proof of concept and technical pre-sales support.
Technical Leadership
Leverages market insights and demand signals to assist leadership in identifying relevant areas in which to drive up-skilling and/or accreditations based on demand. Role models technical readiness, both depth-aligned to solution area priorities and breadth-aligned to Customer Success Unit (CSU)/corporate initiatives (e.g., security, resilience, AI), and influences team to drive their own technical readiness. Acts as a mentor, leading readiness and upskilling activities in the team/organization by educating colleagues on technical and non-technical concepts and sharing proven practices.
Proactively identifies gaps through delivery, communicates those gaps to relevant team members and internal/external stakeholders, and connects gaps and patterns across business and technology areas that drive changes and improvements to products, IP (both existing and new), technologies, and/or processes/practices that enable solutions to scale across customers. Contributes to the development and modification of Microsoft's structured frameworks and methodologies. Provides thought leadership and innovation to customers/partners and internal communities at the local level.
Contributes to leading virtual teams (v-teams) around technologies and customer/partner challenges, and shares ideas, insights, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape.
Demonstrates strong industry knowledge and increases recognition for Microsoft solutions by contributing to and sometimes leading presentations and engagements with external and internal audiences (e.g., Tech Connect, Build, Ignite) Contributes to intellectual property (IP) and identifies patterns where no IP exists (e.g., CoPilot and AI scenarios) to help build scalable and repeatable models. Participates in external technical and non-technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, webcasts, blogs, hackathons) that elevate the Microsoft brand and shares learnings across internal teams
Capabilities and Skills
Driving Customer Outcomes
Understanding and mapping customer requirements to the company's offerings effectively. Identifying opportunities, translating customer needs into tailored solutions, ensuring that products or services precisely meet customer expectations, resulting in high levels of satisfaction and success.
Leading with Technical Intensity
Being the trusted technical advisor to the customer, prioritizing technical skills growth aligned with our cloud strategy, and infusing technical insight into helping the customer make the right business decisions.
Technical Skills
M365 Administration
Assigning Copilot licenses
Configuring SharePoint Advanced Management
Managing Microsoft Graph connectors
Ensuring data readiness for semantic search
M365 Copilot and Copilot Studio
No-code agent creation using natural language
Connecting to SharePoint, Outlook, and Teams
Power Platform integration
REST API and custom connectors
Event-driven workflows
Data engineering and MLOps
Responsible AI practices
Conversational UX design
Prompt engineering (for advanced scenarios)
Security & Compliance
Implementing Microsoft Purview for data governance
Managing sensitivity labels and access controls
Oversharing prevention and audit logging
Understanding the Business
Understanding the business means having a firm grasp of the Microsoft strategy, consumption, and support and connecting that to customer outcomes, using data to find new opportunities and demonstrate customer success, and leverage our internal systems to accurately capture the state of your customer.
The ability to identify business needs and determine solutions to business problems; solutions may include a software-systems development component, process improvement, organizational change or strategic planning and policy development.
The ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with supervisors, staff, managers, customers, and vendors. This includes expressing empathy and compassion when dealing with the needs and problems of others, being approachable, taking time to address the concerns of coworkers, and treating others with respect and dignity
The ability to interact confidently with senior leaders of the organization in order to present/defend/clarify concerns or issues regarding an existing project, program, or solution. This includes the ability to confidently address difficult questions, handle push back from a high-level audience, and maintain an executive demeanor while engaging in difficult or sometimes high-pressure situations.
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Location
Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia