Marie Eugene

Cloud Solution Architect @Microsoft

As a Cloud Solution Architect within Microsoft’s Culture & Cloud eXperience (CCX) team, I lead complex engagements that help enterprise customers modernize their cloud operating models across governance, platform operations, and AI adoption.I work closely with CxO stakeholders, including CTOs, CIOs, and CISOs, to drive clarity, cost control, and sustainable transformation aligned with Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework, FinOps, and service management best practices.Key Achievements:Multi-Cloud Governance Transformation: Led a high-impact engagements to unify risk, policy, and operational governance across Azure, M365 and AI for multiple enterprise customers, embedding controls for compliance and spend optimization.Strategic Stakeholder Engagement & Executive Relationship Management: Engaged 30+ enterprise clients at the CxO level to align Microsoft’s cloud portfolio with strategic goals, driving executive buy-in, deepening account trust, and accelerating solution adoption.Enterprise Value Realization: Designed and delivered FinOps and modernization strategies that enabled $450K in annual cloud savings while generating $40K+ in new monthly Azure consumption for a global legal organisationAI Readiness & Responsible Innovation: Designed service-readiness and governance frameworks to help enterprise clients operationalize Responsible AI, bridging security, compliance, and architecture domains.Client Engagement & Retention: Acted as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, simplifying complex technical domains such as AI governance and FinOps into actionable plans, resulting in 98%+ client satisfaction scores and over consulting hours retained/expanded.Human-Centered Consulting: Simplified critical topics like AI governance and compliance into accessible narratives that built momentum, renewed contracts, and secured over 50% increase in Copilot adoption