Start Date: September 2025 Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential and excitement for the journey ahead. As Cloud Solution Architect, you will gather customer/partner insights and leverages these insights to design architectures, provide expertise/guidance, develop, propose and deliver Microsoft solutions to achieve customer/partner business outcomes and drive to completion the resolution/unblocking of their issues, resulting in accelerated consumption. This opportunity will allow you to leverage knowledge of the products, services, and value propositions of Microsoft and its competitors in customer/partner conversations to identify growth opportunities. At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more and when you begin your career with us, we empower you through the Microsoft Aspire Experience. Those hired into the roles listed below are invited to participate in this two-year learning and development experience where you'll build your network, cultivate intentional capabilities and gain perspective into the career opportunities across Microsoft’s many exciting businesses. We’re a company of learn-it-all’s rather than know-it-alls and our culture is centered around embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Are you ready to join us and create the future? Come as you are, do what you love—start your journey with us today • You will act as the voice of the customer (VOC)/partner by learning to identify and share feedback around technical capabilities, blockers and insights that relate to the customer/partner with internal teams. • You will demonstrate basic technical concepts and prove those design solutions' capability through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner and support customer skilling needs by participating in discussions on technical delivery with other internal and external stakeholders to transfer knowledge and contribute to customer readiness. • With supervision, you will identify issues and advises customers/partners to operate and optimize performance in accordance with Microsoft best practices and apply methodology and governance, as directed, to minimize business and technical risks and adhere to quality assurance while ensuring excellence in contributions to design and/or delivery of solutions. • You will learn about the products, services, and value propositions of Microsoft's Cloud and support businesses and share learnings with others (e.g., peer groups, customers) as appropriate and assess customer/partner needs and gather information that helps others to identify growth opportunities. • You will learn to identify and communicate areas in intellectual property (IP) that need refreshing or have gaps and contribute to IP development with guidance/supervision. • You will leverage development opportunities (e.g., mentorships, role-based resources, training courses, internal events such as Ready, Build, Ignite) to learn new technologies or services. • You will embody our culture and values. Required Qualifications • Bachelor's Degree (or currently pursuing) in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND work or internship experience involving cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting • You must be legally authorised to work in Germany to be eligible for this role. (Legally authorised has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit) • Fluent in German • Fluent in English Preferred Qualifications • Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications) Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.