Senior Cloud Architect Consultant with presales experience - fluent in French and or Dutch

Date de publication : Mar 30, 2026, 2:37PM
Shape the future with us! Join Orange Business as a Senior Commercial Cloud Architect for our Cloud Pan-European Presales & Advisory business area. Location Brussels, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, or Madrid. Senior Cloud Architect Consultant with presales experience - fluent in French and or Dutch for Europe at Orange Business
Contract: Permanent
Business Area: Cloud - Pan-European Presales & Advisory Ways of Working and Travel: Hybrid; EU travel required
Location: Madrid (Spain), Brussels (Belgium), Luxembourg (Luxembourg), or Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Languages: English; French and/or Dutch

The position, mission & team:
Orange Business is strengthening its position as a trusted digital partner in Europe, combining its leadership in connectivity, cybersecurity and cloud to help clients accelerate their digital evolution.

The Senior Commercial Cloud Architect - Europe is pivotal in this mission. You guide European enterprises in building the right cloud environment to support growth in a market shaped by sovereignty demands, hybrid complexity, and rising cost pressure. You lead cloud advisory engagements, design hybrid architectures, support presales cycles, and drive the development and rollout of our cloud advisory and transformation offers.

We value people who are proactive on every level, deliver exceptional results, work well with others, and make a clear impact on our clients and our business. If you love collaborating, learning, sharing your expertise, and being recognized for your achievements, you'll fit right in with our team.
What you'll do:
All the responsibilities we'll trust you with
Cloud Advisory & Architecture

• Advise clients on cloud strategy, hybrid architecture and operating models.
• Assess current-state architecture, maturity and cost across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Define target cloud and hybrid architectures aligned to cost, performance, sovereignty, and compliance needs.
• Identify optimization opportunities using FinOps principles and modernization levers.
• Advise on sovereignty and locality requirements, including Azure Local where relevant.
• Present clear recommendations to C-level and senior stakeholders.

Presales & Commercial Support

• Shape architectural direction and solution outlines for panEU opportunities.
• Contribute to RFP/RFI responses, workshops and bid defense activities.
• Translate business needs into commercially viable cloud architectures.
• Position Orange Business cloud services clearly during client engagements.

Offer Leadership & Thought Leadership

• Act as a thought leader on hybrid cloud, architecture, and cloud economics.
• Serve as offer lead for cloud advisory and transformation services.
• Drive the development, industrialization and rollout of cloud advisory offers across countries.
• Ensure adoption of offers by country teams and integrate field learnings into continuous improvement.
• Develop reusable methods, tools, and best practices for the European cloud community.

Who you are:
What matters most for this role
Your interests & soft skills: Personal Attributes

• Commercially sharp; focused on outcomes and value.
• Clear communicator able to simplify complex topics.
• Collaborative across countries and teams.
• Pragmatic, curious and grounded in real-world cloud practice.

Your technical expertise: Experience

• 5+ years in cloud advisory, architecture or presales roles.
• Experience with hybrid (on-prem + public cloud) environments.
• Exposure to LNA/MNC clients across Europe.
• Confident engaging with senior and executive stakeholders.

Skills

• Strong knowledge of Azure (preferred) and on-prem infrastructure; awareness of AWS/GCP.
• Ability to link business drivers to architecture and governance choices.
• Understanding of cloud economics, sovereignty, governance and operating models.
• Structured, concise and consultative communicator.
• Fluency in English as well as in French and/or Dutch.

Certifications

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• AWS Solutions Architect - Professional.
• TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture frameworks
  (Other relevant cloud or architecture certifications also valued).

Nice to Have

• Experience with Azure Local or sovereignty-driven deployments.
• FinOps experience or certification.
• Experience in offer development or portfolio management.

Why you should join us:
Some of the rewards of working at Orange Business

• Hybrid ways of working with access to our modern & collaborative office.
• We may work with tomorrow's technology, but at our core we are a people-oriented organization.
• A community of experts - as Digital Natives, we put innovation at the heart of our expertise.
• Read more about the benefits we offer here: Amsterdam , Brussels , Madrid , Luxembourg .

Apply now
We can't wait to meet you!
About Orange Business:
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