Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Solutions

Hitachi Solutions is a global Microsoft solutions integrator passionate about developing and delivering industry-focused solutions that support our clients to deliver on their business transformation goals. Our industry focus, expertise, and intellectual property is what truly sets us apart. We have earned, and continue to maintain, a strategic relationship with Microsoft. Recognized for our achievements - teaming with our clients to deliver innovative digital solutions and services - is how we have achieved year after year recognition.

As their trusted advisor, we support our clients to deliver on their strategic business initiatives as they unify, automate, and modernize their data and operations to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance their customer’s experience. Our over 3,000 team members across 14 countries, and our 18 years of 100% focus on Microsoft technologies and business applications, is how we deliver excellence through expert services and industry-focused cloud solutions.

A part of Hitachi, Ltd., our company has a long and rich history of innovation, financial strength, and international presence of one of the world’s largest companies. Since 1910, Hitachi, Ltd. has been a leader in manufacturing innovative products and solutions that support industry and social infrastructure around the globe supported by 303,000 employees in over 100 countries and across 864 companies.

Hitachi Solutions is a global Microsoft solutions integrator passionate about developing and delivering industry-focused solutions that support our clients to deliver on their business transformation goals. Our leadership in Global Dynamics 365 Field Service and Manufacturing is what truly sets us apart and enables us to maintain a strategic relationship with Microsoft.

The Solution Architect, Cloud & AI Solutions is a senior, client‑facing technical leader responsible for designing and guiding AI‑enabled, Azure‑native solutions for complex enterprise initiatives. This role focuses on applying Microsoft cloud and AI capabilities to real business problems, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and operationally sound.

The Solution Architect partners with Sales and Delivery teams from presales through execution, translating business objectives into pragmatic, implementable architectures while maintaining architectural integrity throughout delivery.

• Define end‑to‑end solution architectures built on Microsoft Azure, emphasizing cloud‑native design principles
• Make architectural decisions across identity, security, networking, platform services, data access, resiliency, and cost governance
• Ensure solutions are designed for scalability, reliability, observability, and long‑term maintainability
• Establish architecture standards, patterns, and guardrails aligned to Microsoft and Hitachi Solutions best practices

• Lead the design and implementation of AI‑enabled solutions using Microsoft technologies
• Apply AI capabilities such as:
  • Azure AI services and platform capabilities
  • Copilot‑enabled and intelligent application scenarios
  • Data‑driven insights, automation, and decision support
• Partner with clients to identify high‑value AI use cases and translate them into deliverable architectures
• Ensure AI solutions meet enterprise expectations for security, compliance, governance, and responsible use

• Provide architectural guidance to engineering teams to ensure solutions are buildable, testable, and operable
• Define application architecture patterns (service boundaries, APIs, integration approaches) appropriate for Azure‑native solutions
• Ensure alignment with modern delivery practices including CI/CD, automated testing, and Dev Sec Ops
• Review designs and implementations to ensure engineering quality aligns with architectural intent

• Partner with Sales to drive solution design during pursuits, including discovery, architecture definition, and estimation
• Contribute to proposals, statements of work, and executive‑level presentations
• Clearly communicate architectural trade‑offs,…