Microsoft

Cloud & AI Apps Senior Consultant

Microsoft  •  €46k - €84k/yr  •  Athens, GR (Onsite)  •  4 hours ago
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Job Description

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

Microsoft Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) helps assist customers in stabilizing developed solutions using Microsoft methodologies in complex customer environments, in the design and development of integrated solutions using the latest Microsoft products, services and technologies and understanding the relevant application development, infrastructure and operations implications of the developed solution.

Industry Solutions Delivery is a global organization of over 13,000 strategic sellers, industry experts, elite engineers, and world-class architects, consultants, and delivery experts who work together to bring Microsoft’s mission of empowerment – and cutting-edge technology - to life for the world’s most influential customers. We are on the front lines of innovation, working side-by-side with customers to drive value across the entirety of their digital transformation journey. Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves. Join us and help create life-changing innovations that impact billions around the world!

As a Senior Technical Consultant (Cloud & AI), you will be responsible for overseeing client-focused delivery of high-quality solutions and business outcomes. You will have the opportunity to help create & deliver the next generation of Azure-based Solutions for our most strategic customers.  Our team offers a collaborative culture where you can contribute your knowledge & experience while learning together as we create cutting-edge cloud solutions for our customers.



Responsibilities

  • Lead technical delivery of customer-facing solutions, across AI-Ready Data Platforms, AI application development, agentic systems and cloud modernization.

  • Manage senior stakeholder expectations via owning technical plans across project delivery life cycle

  • Identify & report on business and technical risks, assess impact and propose mitigations and contingencies

  • Articulate value propositions for strategic Microsoft products and position them against competitors

  • Support and mentor own and client teams throughout delivery

  • Deliver results through teamwork while achieving individual billable attainment goals

  • Strong time, project, and priority management skills

  • Seek opportunities to drive Consulting business by collaborating with multiple diverse team members

  • Ability to travel across EMEA when required (up to 50%)



Qualifications

Technical background in IT services is essential, along with Financial Services/ Banking Sector experience. You will have demonstrated skills leading teams designing and developing technology to solve business problems and help customers enhance applications across AI-ready data platforms, AI application development, agentic systems, and cloud modernization: 

AI-Ready Data Platforms & Modernization

  • Design and deliver AI-ready data platforms that enable analytics, Gen AI, Copilot, and agentic AI workloads across enterprise environments.

  • Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives across relational and non-relational data estates, including Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Cosmos DB, and Microsoft Fabric.

  • Experience implementing modern data architectures including Lakehouse, data mesh, real-time analytics, vector search, RAG, and enterprise knowledge platforms.

  • Implement governance, security, and data quality controls that support enterprise-scale AI adoption.

  • Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure AI Search, OneLake, and Azure SQL services is highly desirable.

AI Engineering & Application Innovation

  • Design and build enterprise-grade AI applications, copilots, and multi-agent solutions using Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Foundry Agent Service, Copilot Studio, and modern cloud-native technologies.

  • Hands-on experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agent orchestration, semantic search, knowledge grounding, prompt engineering, and AI solution evaluation.

  • Apply Responsible AI principles, AI governance, observability, evaluation frameworks, and security best practices throughout the AI development lifecycle.

  • Collaborate with customers to identify business transformation opportunities enabled by AI, automation, and advanced analytics.

Cloud Engineering, DevOps & AI Operations

  • Experience delivering enterprise software using Agile, DevOps, and modern engineering practices.

  • Expertise in GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitHub Copilot, CI/CD, infra automation & cloud-native delivery models.

  • Experience with IaaC using Terraform, Bicep, ARM, YAML, PowerShell, Python, or similar technologies.

  • Build secure and scalable deployment pipelines for cloud, data, and AI workloads, including AI application lifecycle management (LLMOpsMLOpsAIOps).

  • Experience with containers (AKS, Container Apps), APIs, event-driven architectures, monitoring, observability, and automated testing would be beneficial.

Additional experience/ qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree (B.S./B.A.) in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience

  • Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and Design experience

  • Relational database expertise (SQL experience is a plus)

  • API development and design

  • Fluency in English is required

Technology Consulting IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Greece is € 46,000.00 - € 84,200.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/greece-corporate-pay.html


Technology Consulting IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Greece is € 46,000.00 - € 84,200.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/greece-corporate-pay.html

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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About Microsoft

Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters.

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