A Cloud Architect is responsible for understanding a customer’s needs, finalizing requirements, leading a team of developers, testers, database, and other personnel to build a complete solution, finalizing and allocating cloud resources, and testing and deploying solutions on the cloud. A Cloud Architect sits with the end customers, internal decision-makers, project owners, and project managers to understand the requirements and define clear detailed functional requirements for the technical teams. A Cloud Architect also works with customers to test the application, get their feedback, fix problems, and work with the deployment engineers to get projects up and running.
Microsoft Azure is the fastest-growing cloud service provider. In total revenue, Azure is just behind AWS but growing at a faster pace than others.
An Azure Architect or Azure Solutions Architect is a Cloud Architect that builds solutions for Microsoft Azure Cloud.
A typical Azure Architect is a senior technical person with at least 10 years of experience building and managing software solutions. An Architect understands every phase of a software project life cycle, team roles, and management, and detailed technical implementation. The architect also understands virtualization, networking, storage, processing, identity, security, backup and recovery, data management, budget and planning, and governance. A typical Azure Architect is also proficient in Azure administration, testing, development, and DevOps.