Job Description:
With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers’ expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft’s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world. Customer Health Success Programs aim to strengthen security & resiliency, drive cloud success, and spark AI innovation ensuring that Microsoft Unified customers quickly realize value from their investment in our cloud. With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Global Delivery & Workforce Planning (GDWP) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services ignited by our people and culture. Come join GDWP and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more. The Senior Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) with POD Lead responsibilities is accountable for driving delivery excellence, technical quality, and operational discipline within a designated group of vendor CSAs (the POD). This position demands a strong technical foundation, advanced project management expertise, and proven leadership skills to ensure that every engagement delivered through the Success Program meets Microsoft’s highest standards for quality, consistency, and customer satisfaction. As both a technical expert and operational leader, the POD Lead oversees end-to-end delivery performance, enforces compliance with standards, and acts as a regional focal point for escalations and strategic alignment. Through hands-on engagement delivery, quality oversight, and mentoring, the POD Lead elevates both customer outcomes and team capability. It will require an investigative approach, a challenger mindset, and deep experience working with our customers in their Secured cloud environments such as GCC/H, Sovereign Cloud and more. You will work to build relationships at the local level, investigate creative approaches to staffing and delivery directly to your customers in your area of expertise (Azure Resiliency, Security, and/or AI). Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
