Cloud & AI Platforms Specialist (Public Sector) – Role Overview

 

As a Cloud & AI Platforms Specialist within the UK Azure Cloud & AI Platforms Public Sector Team, you will play a pivotal role in helping Public Sector customers migrate, modernise and transform their infrastructure & data estates and unlock the full potential of AI. You will lead the development and management of Azure solutions across a set of Public Sector customers, with a particular focus on Local and Regional Government.

 

This role combines strategic solution selling with expertise in infrastructure and data modernisation, analytics, and AI. You will guide customers through their Azure transformation journey, helping them unify their data estates, modernise operational services, and adopt advanced analytics and governance platforms. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will collaborate with technical, delivery, partner, and consulting teams to drive customer success and achieve business outcomes.

Your impact will be measured by your ability to influence strategy, accelerate platform adoption, and deliver value through AI-led innovation.

 

As part of the UK Azure Cloud & AI Platforms Team, the Cloud & AI Platforms Specialist plays a critical role in helping UK Public Sector customers—particularly in the Local & Regional Government sector—transform their cloud estates and unlock business value through intelligent Cloud and AI solutions.

You will be a solution sales expert, leading engagements with our customers to drive their Cloud Strategy across three priority solution plays:

Migrate & Modernise Your Estate - helping customers transition their existing infrastructure, applications and data to Azure.Unify Your Data Platform - helping customers consolidate and simplify data estates using Microsoft Fabric and Azure DatabricksInnovate with Azure AI Apps & Agents - empowering customers to build secure, scalable, multi-agent AI architectures.

You will lead a virtual team of Solution Engineers, delivery experts, partners, and consultants to progress opportunities and exceed quarterly revenue and consumption targets for Cloud & AI Platforms.

 

As a trusted advisor, you will bring deep expertise in Azure Services, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, and Microsoft OneLake to support customers in evaluating their business requirements, recommending tailored solutions, and demonstrating value to win technical decisions. 

 

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