Principal Partner Solution Architect

The Enterprise Partner team drives Microsoft’s commercial partner business, focused on building and selling Microsoft Commercial Cloud solutions with and through partners to empower people and organizations. As an infrastructure-focused Principal Partner Solution Architect (PSA) for Software Development Companies (SDCs) within the Microsoft IPS CTO group, you play a pivotal role in enabling the technical transformation of the most strategic and influential Global SDC partners. You act as the voice of the partner and internal communities, leveraging insights from feedback tools and systems to shape scalable, secure, and AI-enabled solutions. You proactively identify and translate partner challenges into industry-aligned technical strategies—accelerating adoption of agentic architectures, AI innovation, and platform modernization. You guide partners through migrations, build-with engagements, and solution design, ensuring alignment with Microsoft’s methodologies and proven practices. Your work drives cross-solution opportunities for consumption and Unified expansion at scale, while maintaining operational excellence across all engagement stages and tools of record. You anticipate and mitigate blockers using appropriate processes, and continuously prioritize efforts to maximize technical impact and partner success. As a technical leader, you leverage market insights and demand signals to guide readiness, mentor peers, and assemble virtual teams. You apply deep knowledge of Microsoft architectures and the competitive landscape to influence partner strategy and scale solutions across SDCs globally. You will play a pivotal role in enabling SDCs to build differentiated, scalable, and transactable IP solutions aligned to Microsoft solution plays and industry priorities, especially in areas like AI, data, and multi-cloud modernization. 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.