Ai Architect

**AI Architect**:
Auckland, New Zealand

Date posted

**Aug 05, 2025**
- Job number

**1855231**
- Work site

**Up to 50% work from home**
- Travel

**25-50**%**
- Role type

**Individual Contributor**
- Profession

**Consulting Services**
- Discipline

**Solution Architecture**
- Employment type

**Full-Time**

**Overview**:

- Microsoft Industry Solutions Delivery is a global organization hosting over 6,000 strategic sellers, industry and security experts, elite engineers, world-class data scientists and architects, consultants, and delivery specialists. Together with our partners, we help Microsoft’s most strategic customers worldwide to address their specific challenges and provide comprehensive and industry-specific solutions that meet their unique needs.

Our organization is at the forefront of innovation, driving value across the entirety of the customers’ digital and AI transformation journey through repeatable and customized cutting-edge solutions powered by Microsoft Cloud and AI. We take pride in embodying Microsoft's mission of empowerment, promoting a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and fostering a culture of inclusivity where everyone is encouraged to share their unique perspectives and be their authentic selves. By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to life-changing innovations that impact billions of people worldwide.

We are seeking a highly experienced Solution Architect with in-depth expertise across Microsoft Azure Cloud and AI Platform, AI Business Solutions and DevOps specialising in AI and Agentic. This role combines deep technical knowledge with strong business consulting capabilities that align with client strategy and drive business value. You will act as a trusted advisor, shaping cloud adoption journeys, and leading complex transformations across various industries.

This role is technical in nature. The Solution Architect works with customer to deliver high ROI solutions with a focus on modern Azure and AI platform, innovative AI Business Solutions, as well as integrating with the wider focus areas of security.

We are looking for an experienced Solutions Architect for the Industry Solution Delivery ANZ to continue our growth and extend our capabilities in this area.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

**Qualifications**:
**Required/Minimum Qualifications**- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology consulting, solutions architecture, practice development, technical design, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security).
- o Azure Solution Architect Expert Certification
- o OR equivalent experience.

**Additional or Preferred Qualifications**- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology (cloud/AI platform, AI business solutions)
- o Azure Solution
- o OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years technical sales experience.
- 6+ years project management experience.
- Technical or Professional Certification in Architecture/Azure/Data/DevOps/AI (e.g., Databrick,etc).

**Responsibilities**:
**Architecture Design and Deployment**
- Leverages a structured approach to Architecture Projects using existing methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Agile, Iterative) that make use of existing reference architecture and established architectural styles and design patterns. Proposes and develops new solutions to scale across multiple customers/partners. Builds and maintains an architecture description document, an architecture decisions log, and a requirements/constraints traceability matrix to ensure the rationale for the business solution's Architecture is known and understood.
- Defines and documents the architecture through an architecture description document, an architecture decisions log, and a requirements/constraints traceability matrix to communicate the value proposition of the business solution along with the project approach. Leads complex cost-based and technology-based discussions to explain the Architecture in terms of its build, deployment, and ongoing operational use to determine customer appetite for the business solution. Uses a business-value approach that values return on investment (ROI) and customer costs-savings over technical ease of execution. Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-grade Azure cloud and AI platform, focusing on scalability, security, performance, and cost optimization.
- Collaborates with the Project Manager to jointly drive proje