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Principal AI Apps Cloud Solution Architect

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Microsoft Corporation

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United States , Washington D.C.

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Salary:

130900.00 - 251900.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

Microsoft is seeking a highly experienced AI Apps Cloud Solution Architect – Cloud & AI to join our Federal organization. This role requires deep technical expertise across Azure workloads, specifically with AI, Foundry, application services, and GitHub Copilot, and a passion for helping enterprise customers solve complex challenges and accelerate their digital transformation. This Cloud Solution Architect will work with the customer’s architects, developers and IT staff to build new AI-infused applications hosted on Azure, modernize existing Azure applications, or migrate applications to Azure and enhance them with AI.

Job Responsibility:

  • Delivers solutions in line with company methodologies
  • Proactively identifies and anticipates new cross-solution opportunities for Consumption, Usage & Unified expansion
  • Anticipates, identifies, escalates, and mitigates blockers using appropriate tools and processes
  • Operates according to required operational excellence and proven practice standards
  • Proactively identifies and/or translates customer/partner problems into industry solutions
  • Proactively acts as the voice of the customer/partner
  • Drives self and guides other team members to focus on customer/partner experience
  • Identifies and prioritizes opportunities aligned with revenue goals and orchestrates the growth of the solution utilization pipeline with partners
  • Leverages market insights and demand signals to assist leadership in identifying relevant areas in which to drive up-skilling
  • Leads, mentors, and may assemble virtual teams (v-teams) around technologies and customer/partner challenges
  • Proactively identifies and anticipates gaps through delivery
  • Build trusted relationships with IT executives and business leaders
  • Lead and coordinate across Microsoft, partner, and customer technical teams
  • Lead architectural design sessions and guide the implementation of secure, scalable, and resilient solutions
  • Drive technical excellence across Azure workloads
  • Align technical delivery to customer success plans and consumption priorities
  • Accelerate Azure consumption and customer outcomes
  • Collaborate with internal teams and partners to design impactful delivery proposals
  • Translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes
  • Contribute to Microsoft’s technical community
  • Maintain advanced certifications and deep technical expertise
  • Inspire customer innovation
  • Demonstrate a growth mindset

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 7+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience
  • Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 12+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience
  • 6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external)
  • 6+ years experience leading technical projects
  • Comfort and actively uses code/script generation tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude, Opus, Codex
  • Competitive Landscape: Knowledge of enterprise public cloud platforms and related industry/marketplace
  • Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 11, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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