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The Solution Architect is responsible for translating the client’s business requirements into specific systems, applications, or process designs for very large complex technology solutions and architectures. You’ll act as an advocate for the client as the ultimate authority on the architecture designed to address client business problems. You’ll provide direction for design activities, often project-based, sometimes working at customer sites. As a Solution Architect you’ll gather customer/partner insights from a broad range of stakeholders to shape and form both the definition and ongoing execution of projects. You’ll define and document the architecture to communicate the value proposition of the business solution along with the project approach. Collaborating with the Project Manager you’ll jointly drive project/technical governance of the design, build, and deployment into use. You’ll work with the business sponsor and customer/partner stakeholders to gather and ratify requirements and constraints and collaborating with the Account Team and/or Bid Team to understand the business solution/problem. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
Job Responsibility:
Gather customer/partner insights from a broad range of stakeholders as well as the main business sponsor to shape and form both the definition and ongoing execution of projects and work with customer/partner stakeholders and business sponsor to socialize both the business solution and the project approach to determine if changes are needed to the business solution
Use evidence-based approach to represent the customer/partner as a customer advocate and share insights with Product Engineering teams and the business with a view to improving Microsoft technologies, products, services and offerings such that they can better meet customer/partner needs across a territory
Define and document the Architecture through an architecture description document, an architecture decisions log, and a requirements/constraints traceability matrix to communicate the value proposition of the business solution along with the project approach
Work with customers to understand and demonstrate business value (e.g., release of revenue, cost savings) that the business solution realizes and manage and resolve ambiguity in the requirements and constraints and documents assumptions and implications where it cannot be resolved
Generate new and/or improvements to existing intellectual property. Connects gaps and patterns across business and technology areas to drive changes
Identify which ideas should be culled, with consideration for scale across customers and drive the re-use of intellectual property and recommends practices in both pre-sales and delivery as well as participate and contribute to internal/external communities
Lead virtual teams around technologies and customer/partner challenges by sharing ideas, insight, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape
Design and lead end‑to‑end enterprise data, GenAI, Copilot, and agentic AI architectures, translating business outcomes into scalable, secure, and governed solutions across cloud data platforms and AI services
Own data platform design (lakehouse/data lake/warehouse, streaming, analytics, semantic models) to ensure the enterprise data estate is AI‑ready (quality, lineage, governance, observability)
Lead data migration and modernization from on‑premises environments to cloud, including planning and executing migrations with minimal disruption, and aligning migration choices to modernization goals
Architect and drive cross‑cloud / multi‑cloud data integration and migration scenarios (e.g., AWS/GCP/Azure), including federated analytics approaches and unified governance across clouds where required
Define GenAI solution patterns, including prompt orchestration, embeddings, vector search, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), and grounding strategies that connect LLMs to enterprise data and systems
Lead architecture for Copilot and AI‑augmented applications, integrating AI services into business workflows and productivity scenarios while aligning to enterprise architecture and security standards
Design and govern agentic AI architectures, including orchestration across sub‑agents, API/tool integration, modular design, observability, and human validation / human‑in‑the‑loop controls
Establish AI platform and MLOps/LLMOps foundations, covering lifecycle management, monitoring, evaluation/feedback loops, and operational readiness for production AI systems
Ensure Responsible AI, security, privacy, and compliance by design, including data protection and Zero Trust alignment—especially for regulated enterprise environments
Architect cloud‑native resiliency and operational excellence, including reliability, performance efficiency, and proactive monitoring—applied to AI and migration programs
Own technical delivery excellence across GenAI/Copilot/agentic engagements from presales through PoCs, pilots, and production deployments, leveraging partners/factory models for scale
Act as a trusted technical advisor to executives, engineering leaders, and partners—communicating architecture decisions, trade‑offs, and value realization clearly
Bring strong experience in migration & modernization programs, including workload assessment and dependency mapping to inform sequencing and reduce risk
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security)
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security)
OR equivalent experience
6+ years technical sales experience
6+ years project management experience
3+ years people management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, and/or technical architect managers
Technical or Professional Certification in Domain (e.g., Security)