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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)